H. E. GRISWOLD
The abstract, insurance and real estate business of H. E. Griswold is one of the institutions of the city.
H. E. Griswold, a leading real estate and loan agent of Atlantic, was born in Hancock county, Illinois, on the 12th day of April, 1843, and is a son of Dr. H. P. and Lucy (Pettibone) Griswold. His father was a native of New York and a graduate of the Union and Herkimer medical colleges. Soon after graduating he removed to Hancock county, Illinois, where he practiced for twenty-five years, being one of the first physicians of that county. Dr. Griswold's wife, who was a native of Connecticut, died in Hancock county in 1863, while his death occurred in 1881. The subject of this sketch graduated at Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1867, soon after which he came to Lewis, Cass county, where he engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1869 and 1870, he was deputy revenue collector, and in 1875 was again appointed, filling that office for ten years. He enlisted in 1862 in company C, One Hundred and Eighteenth Illinois Infantry, and engaged in the battles of Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Champion Hill, BIack River Bridge, and the siege and capture of Vicksburg, and many others. He was mustered out at Camp Butler in 1865. In 1869 Mr. Griswold came to Atlantic, and was among those who organized the present prosperous city of Atlantic, engaging in his present business in 1879. He is a Master Mason, a member of the G. A. R., and in 1879, was elected State Commander of the latter body. He was married in 1868, in Hancock county, Illinois, to Rose Cherrill, a daughter of Adolphus Cherrill. By this union there has been one child - Alice.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 864-865.
