From Wilkes Barre Record, Monday, 2 Feb 1891, Page 5
David D. Griffith, one of the most reliable and best known mining
contractors in Wyoming Valley, died at his home on Maple St. on Saturday
morning at 2 oclock of miners consumption. Mr. Griffin has been ill for
the last three years with this slow but at the same time surely fatal
disease, having had at times marked improvement and hope of cure, and again
periods of retrogression and corresponding depression. In 1888 he cross the
Atlantic to his old home, but returned without having derived any great
benefit from the ocean air. In the autumn of 1889 he went to California and
spent the winter there, hoping that the dry air of the Pacific coast would
heal the diseased lungs. In the spring of 1899 he returned to his home
here, having received no benefit whatever. Since that time he has seldom
left his home, and for the last two months has been confined to his bed. On
Wednesday he was so low that his children, several of whom live a distance
from her, were telegraphed to and at the time of his death all were present
at the bedside. He is survived by a widow and seven children, Sarah, wife
of George B. Jenkins of Jackson, Susquehanna County; Mary, wife of John
Allen of Edwardsville; Reese D., a student at the University of Pennsylvania
at Philadelphia; Bessie, Nellie and Guy, who live at home. The funeral will
be held at the residence to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon at 8 oclock. Revs.
T.C. Edwards and F. von Krug will officiate, the former making an address in
Welsh and the latter in English.
Mr. Griffith was born in Aberyswith, South Wales, in 1841. He came to the
United States in 1861 and settled in Plymouth. He removed from there to
Jackson Susquehanna Count, where he purchased a farm, on which he resided
until 1884, when he came to Kingston and has resided here every since. He
leaves a large property, nearly all of which he accumulated in the business
of a mining contractor. He sunk the air shaft of the Pettebone mine, the
great main shaft of the Woodward mine and the main shaft of the Haddock [or
Maddock] mine at Luzerne. Besides these he has pushed to a successful
termination many other large and difficult engineering contracts. He was
greatly respected and honored among all nationalities and classes of men
with whom he came in contact, and he will be missed and his death regretted
by a great number of friends.
Nancy Cook
Pasadena, MD
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