Biography of Hiram Griswold, page  875.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Hiram Griswold, bridge contractor and builder, of Auburn, Ind., was born in 
Litchfield County, Conn., April 4, 1827.  He went with his parents when a 
child to Stark County, Ohio, and later to Massillon.  In 1844 he began 
clerking for Freeman McMillan, wholesale dealer, in dry goods, and 
groceries, Massiollon, remaining with him four years. In 1848 he went to 
Toledo, Ohio, and for three seasons followed boating, and from there to 
Dayton, where he followed the same business till 1853. In the summer of 1854 
he came to Indiana and was associated with his father, Willis Griswold, in 
the saw-mill, which subsequently was burned.  They then bought the old___
Mills, which they carried on several years. He was then variously employed, 
being for some time Marshal of Auburn and Deputy Sheriff several terms, 
serving under S.W. Ralston, Jeremiah Plumb and John McMillan.  In 1861 he 
began a bridge building, and has since built the greater part of the bridges 
in De Kalb, Whitley and Steuben counties.  He was married December, 1849, 
to Mary Copsly, of Dayton, Ohio.  She died in June, 1869, leaving three 
children---Grant, Alfred and Lilly, wife of Charles McDonald, son of J.B. 
McDonald, of Whitley County.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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