Henry Griffith

Birth Date

1822-11-08

Death Date

1885-07-04

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

McLean County, Kentucky, farmer and politician. Kentucky native. Married Amanda M. Griffith. Sheriff of the McLean County Court in 1854. Farmer in McLean County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from McLean County from 1861 to 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McLean County, p. 28. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 597. Find A Grave, "Judge Henry Griffith (1822-1885)," Memorial #82473508, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82473508/ (accessed August 18, 2017).

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