Lockley, Fred. "History of the Columbia River Valley, From The Dalles to the Sea." Vol. 3. S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1928. p. 837. GRAHAM A. GRISWOLD Graham A. Griswold is extensively engaged in the lumber business in Portland, also has mill interests at several outside points, and is regarded as a business man of more than ordinary acumen and sagacity. Mr. Griswold was born in Vermontville, Eaton county, Michigan, on the 16th of August, 1883, and is a son of William Marshall and Rose (Loring) Griswold. His paternal grandfather, Roger Griswold, who was a native of Benson, Vermont, migrated to Michigan with a number of other families in 1836, and founded Vermontville. William M. Griswold was born on his father's farm. He followed farming throughout his active life and his death occurred in 1907 in the house in which he was born, when he was fifty-nine years of age. He is survived by his widow, who now lives with her son, Graham A., in Portland, at the age of seventy-six years. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is of English descent, the family having been established in Boston, Massachusetts, in colonial days, and several of its members served in the war of the Revolution. Besides her son, Graham A., she is the mother of three daughters and two other sons, two of whom, Della Starr and Catherine, the latter a graduate in domestic science of Lewis Institute, Chicago, make their home with their brother, who has never married. Graham A. Griswold attended the public schools of Vermontville and spent two years in Olivet College, at Olivet, Michigan. In 1905 he came to Oregon and from 1906 to 1910 served as secretary of the Falls City Lumber Company, of which he was one of the founders. He then became identified with the West Oregon Lumber Company, at Linnton, of which he was vice president and treasurer from 1910 to 1914, since which time he has been connected with a number of lumber concerns, in all of which he has won success. In 1921 he established the Griswold Lumber Company, of which he is owner, with offices at 712 Failing building, Portland, and is engaged in the wholesaling of all kinds of west coast lumber. He is president of the Carlton Manufacturing Company, which operates a sawmill at Carlton; president of the Griswold-Grier Lumber Company, of Philomath, Oregon; vice president of the Pedee Lumber Company, at Pedee, Oregon, and is financially interested in several other mills. He understands the lumber business in all of its details and has exercised sound judgment in his operations, so that a due measure of prosperity has crowned his efforts. Mr. Griswold is a member of Imperial Lodge, No. 159, A. F. & A. M.; Portland Consistory, A. A. S. R.; Al Kader Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.; Portland Lodge, No. 142, B. P. 0. E.; the Waverly Golf Club, the University Club and the Chamber of Commerce. In his political views he is a republican and he and his family attend the Congregational church. Good citizenship and true manhood have been exemplified in his life record and by his acquaintances he is held in the highest esteem because of his business ability, sterling character and genial manner. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in July 2010 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.