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D15517-5
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- 1943-06 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Chauncey Leavenworth Griggs, founder of Paxport Mills, sec-treas C.W. Griggs Investment Co., secretary of the Wilkeson Co. and St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. Born July, 6, 1909, he died Sept 1989. He lived all his life in Tacoma. He was the son of Herbert Stanton Griggs and Elvira Ingersoll Griggs. Wife, Johanna, daughter, Tamar Koch and son, Mark Leavenworth Griggs. Grandson of Chauncey Wright Griggs and descendant of Henry Leavenworth. He refused a commission in another branch of the service to volunteer for duty as a private in the mountain troops. With another individual, he designed the first tow rope on Mount Rainier. (T.Times, 9/21/1943)
Griggs, Chauncey L., 1909-1989; Businessmen--Tacoma;