David Griffis
David Griffis erected a pole cabin, and in this house Daniel Griffis lived to manhood. He went to school when not large enough to pick brush. This was a mile and a half south-east of Princeton, the first log school-house in the twp. There being no roads at that time, the trees were blazed to indicate the direction to and from school. The second school-house cabin was built near Lewis Murphy's, on the hill, and was made of buckeye logs. John Holden then lived on the west side of Gregory's Creek, one mile and a half south of the old Lebanon road. He came prior to 1797. Thomas Fisher was the second teacher in the twp. Mr. Griffis had two sons who were preachers, one of them now being dead; one who is a dentist in Hamilton, and two farmers.
From A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County Ohio, With Illustrations and Sketches of its Representative Men and Pioneers, Western Biographical Publishing Company, Cincinnati Ohio, 1882.