When Luther W. Griffin was born in 1849, in Deerfield, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Timothy F. Griffin, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth J. Black, was 23. He lived in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States for about 5 years and Massachusetts, United States in 1870. He died on 30 March 1886, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 37.
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Abraham Lincoln was Elected President of the United States in November of 1860
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Welsh: from the personal name Gruffin, Griffin, a pet form of Middle Welsh Gruffudd. In the Welsh border counties this name was introduced directly from Welsh, and in the eastern counties of England by Bretons from France who came over with the Norman conquest.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Gríobhtha ‘descendant of Gríobhtha’, a personal name from gríobh ‘gryphon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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