Griffin, M. G.

GRIFFIN

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 12/19/2008 at 13:55:02

M. G. Griffin

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.25, Council Bluffs)
M. G. Griffin, manager of the "Daily Bee", Council Bluffs, came to Council Bluffs in the spring of 1877, being at that time traveling salesman for Greenfelder Bros., wholesale druggists in St. Louis, Mo., and, in 1878, opened up a grocery and wholesale butter and flour store on South Maine street, having severed his connection with Greensfelder Bros.; he continued in the grocery business until the fall of 1881, when he sold out to Strauvien & Schurtz, and July 1, 1882, assumed the management of the "Daily Bee", which position he holds at present. He was born November 8, 1845, in County Clare, Ireland, where he remained until 1863, when he came to America, landing in New York in August of that year; he went direct to Washington, D. C., where he entered the music store of John F. Ellis, and remained there until December, 1865, when he went to St. Louis, where he held the position of book-keeper and cashier for Charleston, McKenna & Co., wholesale notions and dry goods, until 1867; he then took charge as manager of the "Broadway Dry Goods Store," or "Red Store," a branch house of A. M. Haggarty & Co., of St. Louis, until 1868; he then went to Omaha, Neb., and engaged in the general insurance business, and remained there until the great Chicago fire, when he accepted the position of cashier in the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad Company's freight office, holding that position until the completion of the bridge across the Missouri River at this point, at which time the different roads consolidated their offices, and Mr. Griffin was appointed cashier of all. In May, 1872, he married Ada Dohaney, daughter of John Dohaney, of Council Bluffs, and in June, 1873, went to San Francisco with his family, and remained there until 1877, when he came to Council Bluffs. He is general agent for Madame Demorest's patterns for the Coast Pacific.