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In the 1850s George W. Gridley, a wool grower and grain farmer who at the time was one of the largest landowners in Butte County, settled a 960-acre (390 ha) home ranch west of the town site that was to be named after him. Gridley was established in 1870 when the Oregon and California Railroad was constructed north from Marysville. The railroad ...
In 1868, R.W. Durham sold 17,800 acres (72.0 km 2) in the southerly part of Rancho Esquon to George Gridley and his eldest son, C.E. Gridley. George Gridley was a sheep rancher. R.W. Durham died in 1871, and his elder brother William died in 1873, and their portion of the rancho was subdivided in lots and sold. In 1879 George Gridley sold his ...
Gridley descended from Thomas Gridley (1612–1653), who emigrated from England to New England in 1633. He was born to Frank and Ann Eliza (Sholes) Gridley in Logansport, Indiana, on 24 November 1844. [1] His parents moved to Hillsdale, Michigan, when he was three months old.
Asahel Gridley, Illinois politician; Reuel Colt Gridley fundraiser for the relief of Union soldiers during the American Civil War; Charles Vernon Gridley ("You may fire when ready, Gridley.") USS Gridley, any of four ships named in honor of Charles Vernon Gridley; Richard Gridley, Chief Engineer to George Washington
The population was 1,942 at the 2010 census, declining to 1,683 in the 2020 census, 13% decline). It was named for George Clinton, the first Governor of New York. [3] The village of Clinton is within the town Kirkland. Clinton was known as the "village of schools" due to the large number of private schools operating in the village during the ...
George William Grider (October 1, 1912 – March 20, 1991) was a United States Navy Captain, an attorney, and a Democratic U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1965 to 1967. Early life [ edit ]
It's Week 8 of the Illinois high school football season, with a key Big 12 Conference matchup highlighting the IHSA schedule in the Peoria area — along with several important late-season ...
Harvey Gridley Eastman (October 16, 1832 – July 13, 1878) ... George Washington Eastman. In December 1855, he founded a school of his own in Oswego. He married Mary ...