MR. ARTHUR GRIFFITH, BOONVILLE, ONEIDA, NEW YORK.
Arthur Griffith, who was born in Caernarvoshire, Wales, in 1814; was left an orphan at an early age and emigrated to America in 1824 with his grandfather and first settled in Steuben, Oneida county.In 1837 he started for the far west; he took passage on the lake from Buffalo to Detroit, and from there he walked across the State of Michigan, a part of Indiana and to Chicago, where he found a small muddy village where loaded teams would get mired in the street; then he returned to Boonville, where he engaged in farming, an occupation he pursued through life.
In 1843 he married Eleanor Hughes, daughter of William R. Hughes of Lee. He was the father of three children; Jane and Ellen, both of whom are deceased, and William Penn, with whom he now resides.