Biography of Nathaniel B. Griffin, pages 212 / 213.  History of Northeast 
Indiana; LaGrange, Steuben, Noble, and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the 
editorial supervision of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen, and 
William H. McIntosh.  The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 
1920.

   Nathaniel B. Griffin.  For many years to come as a result of the great 
war the problem of feeding humanity is going to be an international one, and 
the solving of it is going to devolve principally upon the American farmers.  
For this and other cogent reasons the vocation of farming has gained and will 
attract to it still more of the representative men of the country.  One of 
the men who long ago recognized the desirability of this line of endeavor 
is Nathaniel B. Griffin, of Otsego Township, Steuben County, Indiana.  He 
was born in Jackson Township, DeKalb County, Indiana, July 15, 1852, son 
of Eli B. Griffin.
   Eli B. Griffin was born in Pennsylvania, in February, 1802, and his 
wife Eliza (Bundy) Griffin, was born in Pennsylvania in April, 1812, a 
daughter of Nathaniel Bundy.  In 1846 Eli B. Griffin moved from 
Pennsylvania to Jackson Township, DeKalb County, Indiana, becoming one of 
the pioneers of that section.   There he entered eighty acres of land and 
lived there until 1865, when he moved to Wilmington Township in the same 
county, on a farm of 140 acres, which he had purchased, and there he 
continued to reside until his death.  He and his excellent wife had the 
following children: Thomas, Susan, Charles, George, Polley, William, 
Edward, Maria, Nathaniel B. and Nelson.
   Until he was twenty years of age Nathaniel B. Griffin remained with his 
father, during that period learning how to be a farmer and attending the 
district schools. For the subsequent four years he worked for neighboring 
farmers, and then he was married and started for himself on rented land.  
Later he bought a farm, conducting it until 1901, when he traded it for 
his present one of 140 acres in section 30 Otesgo Township, and here he is 
profitably engaged in general farming and stock raising,  his success in 
this line proving his good judgement in selecting this line of work.
   In  1876 Mr. Griffin was united in marriage with Miss Viola Cameron, a 
daughter of William and Sarah (Carlin) Cameron, and they had two children: 
Luella , who died at he age of fourteen yeas, and Etta, who married Charles 
Crowl and has three children, Viola, Fred and Laurence.  Mrs. Griffin died 
in 1906 and in 1909 Mr. Griffin was married to Mrs. Agnes Cook.      
   William Cameron, the father of the first Mrs. Griffin, was one of the 
prominent men of Steuben County, Indiana.  He was born in Abernethy, 
Scotland October 23, 1817, he being the second of the nine children born to 
George and Janet Cameron, who came to the western district of Canada in 
1834.  The mother survived the change but four years, dying in 1838, and 
in 1848, the father dying, three of the children, including William, came 
to Indiana, he settling in Richland Township, on 160 acres of land in 
section 8. John Cameron, a brother, also settled in Richland Township, 
Steuben County, but he died in 1878. Donald, the other brother, settled in 
Posey County, Indiana.   In 1864 William Cameron sold his farm, which he 
had considerably improved, and bought another farm in section 29, Otsego 
Township.  Although a poor man upon coming to Steuben County, through his 
industry and thrift he accumulated property and died a wealthy man.  He 
was married in March 1843, to Sarah Carlin, a native of Wayne County, 
Ohio, where she was born February 1, 1826, a daughter of Robert and Sarah 
Carlin, who settled in Richland Township in 1841. William Cameron and his 
wife became the parents of the following children: Robert, Jane, Juliet, 
Sarah, John, Maria, Viola and one who died in infancy.
   Nathaniel B. Griffin is a man who possesses will and resourcefulness 
and has known how to so  
conduct his farm as to gain a good return on his investment of time and 
money.  He has recognized the importance of operating according to modern 
methods in order to produce large crops and market them expeditiously and 
his experiments with their attending results are matter of considerable 
interest to those of his neighbors less experienced than he.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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