Biography of Lafayette Griffith, page 987.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Lafayette Griffith, engineer, Wabash Railroad, Butler, Ind., was born in 
Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 7, 1847, a son of Joseph Griffith, who moved to Wells 
County, Ind., in 1848 and settled in the northwest corner on an Indian 
reservation. These Indians were of the Miami Tribe, the chief’s name, White 
Loon.  They were peaceable and our subject often visited them and learned 
their language.  He received a good education attending Roanoke Seminary.  
Before his majority he learned the carpenter’s trade, serving an 
apprenticeship, but not liking it he went to work on the Wabash Railroad as 
a laborer on a work-train, and has since been in the employ of the company, 
being gradually promoted till he reached his present position in 1874.  He 
lived in Peru, Ind., from 1866 till 1871; in Fort Wayne from 1871 till 1880; 
and in Butler since 1880.  He ran a freight engine between Fort Wayne and 
Lafayette seven years, and Oct. 10, 1880, was transferred to the Detroit & 
Butler branch of the eastern division, and ran the first express engine 
over the road west from Detroit.   Mr. Griffith was married Sept. 29, 
1870, to Mary E. Walters.  They have three children---Minnie A., Jessie B. 
and Harry Lafayette.  Mr. Griffith has been a member of the Masonic 
fraternity since 1870, and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.  His 
wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

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