Stanton Griffis (1887 - 1974)

Born 2 May 1887 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Dorothea Frances (Nixon) Griffis — married 19 Jun 1912 (to 1937) in Chautauqua, New York, United States

Died 29 Aug 1974 at age 87 in New York City, New York, United States

Biography

Son of William Elliot and Katharine Lyra (Stanton) Griffis.

Graduate and prize winner of Cornell University.

Served as a special envoy under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and as an ambassador under President Truman.

He married 1st Dorothy Nixon on 19 Jun 1912.

He married 2nd Helen Whitney Bourne in 1939.

He married 3rd Elizabeth Blakemore in 1973.

Sources

"Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FX6W-V29 : 1 March 2016), Stanton Griffis, 02 May 1887, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; citing reference ID #194, Massachusetts Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 1,428,240.

"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSGL-RY3 : accessed 23 October 2017), Stanton E Griffis in household of William E Griffis, Ithaca city Ward 2, Tompkins, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 150, sheet 3B, family 73, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,168.

"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M5SR-2XX : accessed 23 October 2017), Stanton Griffis in household of William E Griffis, Ithaca Ward 4, Tompkins, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 186, sheet 9A, family 260, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1083; FHL microfilm 1,375,096.

"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJBS-VQ8 : accessed 23 October 2017), Stanton Griffis, Manhattan Assembly District 10, New York, New York, United States; citing ED 721, sheet 3A, line 1, family 32, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1203; FHL microfilm 1,821,203.

"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3YN-2HG : accessed 23 October 2017), Stanton Griffis, Assembly District 15, Manhattan, New York City, New York, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 31-1352, sheet 7B, line 62, family 138, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2656.

"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JK1K-8ZH : 19 May 2014), Stanton Griffis, Aug 1974; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

http://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/30/archives/stanton-griffis-noted-diplomat-and-financier-is-dead-at-87-envoy.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/19/archives/mrs-elizabeth-blakemore-wed-to-stanton-griffis-exenvoy.html

https://archive.org/stream/classof1869rutge00rutg/classof1869rutge00rutg_djvu.txt