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Portrait and biographical album of Mecosta County, Mich.
containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent
and representative citizens of the county, together with
portraits and biographies of all the governors of Michigan
and of the presidents of the United States: also containing a
complete history of the county, from its earliest settlement
to the present time.

Published by Chapman Bros., Chicago, IL, 1883

Judith Anne Weeks Ancell
April 6, 2011
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GRISWOLD, Leavitt S., M.D.
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Leavitt S. Griswold, M. D., physician and surgeon at Big Rapids
(office in Roof block Michigan avenue), was born Jan. 3, 1853, in
Trumbull Co., Ohio.  His parents were Jesse and Helen (McWilliams)
Griswold, the father following the double occupation of farmer and
stone mason.

Dr. Griswold was reared on a farm until he was 17 years old, meanwhile
obtaining his elementary education.  He attended the union school at
Greenville five years, and began the study of medicine with Dr.
Mulhern, of Greenville, going thence to the Detroit Medical College,
where he was graduated in the spring of 1879.  He had the benefit of
several months’ practice as an assistant in Harper’s and St. Mary’s
Hospitals in Detroit, and first established his business at Sand Lake,
Kent Co., Mich., but decided to make a transfer to Big Rapids, which
he did in October, 1881.  He has a good practice in the city and
adjacent country, both in medicine and surgery, and is steadily rising
in his profession.

Dr. Griswold was married at Vassar, Tuscola Co., Mich., June 12, 1879,
to Mattie A., daughter of John Liston.  She was born at Bowling Green,
Wood Co.,

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Ohio.  Their two children, Carl A. and Roe Oscar, infant were born in
Big Rapids.   Dr. Griswold is a member of the Union Medical Society of
Northern Michigan, of which in 1882, he was Secretary; also belongs to
the State Medical Society.  He owns his residence at 223 West Pine
Street.

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