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Education: Brother Griggs entered The University of Georgia in the fall of 1884 as a sophomore. That school year, he was chosen to represent his class as a speaker during the 1885 spring graduation exercises.
Griggs studied medicine under the supervision of his father at West Point, Georgia in 1886 and then returned to Athens in the fall of 1887. Brother Griggs was a member of the Demosthenian Society, the Ollie Gopher Clan in 1888 and of the Philosophic Society. From November 1887 into early 1888, he was the business manager and a member of the Board of Editors of The Pandora yearbook for the annual’s second edition.
Asa Wesley Griggs, Jr. affiliated himself with the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta and was initiated in January 1885. In 1886, he was the corresponding editor to The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly for Kappa Deuteron Chapter. Griggs graduated from The University of Georgia in 1888 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. After graduation from Georgia, he enrolled in the National Normal University, a teacher’s college at Lebanon, Ohio.
Brother Griggs was a son of Dr. Asa Wesley Griggs, a native of Putnam County, Georgia, an 1849 graduate of The University of Georgia and, as his son would later become, a Demosthenian. Dr. Griggs was also an 1855 graduate of the medical department of the University of Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee, which later became a part of Vanderbilt University. Griggs, Sr. was a physician and surgeon and served in the Confederate States Army. He was born December 11, 1827 in Putnam County, Georgia and died August 16, 1900, West Point, Troup County, Georgia. A very small collection of Dr. Griggs’ letters can be found in the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
Career: After graduation from The University of Georgia and the normal school in Lebanon, Ohio, about 1889, Brother Griggs moved to Texas where he was the superintendent of education in Giddings, Lee County, Texas, about 50 miles east of Austin, Texas.
Thereafter, he was an administrator and teacher for schools in Bastrop, El Paso, Kaufman, Van Zandt and Wharton counties in Texas. In 1924, he began what would be his final assignment for West Columbia schools in Brazoria County, Texas. For his service, Griggs Field at Columbia High School was named in honor of this Kappa Deuteron Brother.
While teaching in Van Zandt County, Griggs shot a man in an argument over school matters. Details uncovered are few, but it would appear that Griggs was not charged or charges were dismissed later.
The St. Louis Republic, St. Louis, Missouri, Sunday, May 13, 1900, p. B-1:
WOUNDED BY A TEACHER.
Wills Point, Tex., May 12 - John Long, a farmer, was shot and mortally wounded by Asa W. Griggs, a school teacher, at Myrtle Springs today.
In another account, published in The Times-Democrat newspaper of New Orleans, it was stated that: “The men quarreled over a school matter. Prof. Griggs surrendered to the peace officers.”
“History of the University of Georgia,” by Thomas Walter Reed; Chapter IX: The Administration of Chancellor Patrick H. Mell, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, ca. 1949, p. 1276 of the original typed manuscript:
“ASA WESLEY GRIGGS as a student was a good mixer, his personality attractive. He took much interest in different student activities and maintained good standing in his classes. He became a teacher and devoted all the years of his life to that profession. His teaching was done in Texas ... ”
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Brother Griggs was a prominent educator and public school administrator in Texas for almost 40 years.
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The Bastrop Advertiser, Bastrop, Texas, Saturday, May 16, 1896, p. 7:
“As a scholar [GRIGGS] is first class, being a graduate of the University of Georgia. As a teacher, he has no superior and few equals.”
Griggs studied medicine under the supervision of his father at West Point, Georgia in 1886 and then returned to Athens in the fall of 1887. Brother Griggs was a member of the Demosthenian Society, the Ollie Gopher Clan in 1888 and of the Philosophic Society. From November 1887 into early 1888, he was the business manager and a member of the Board of Editors of The Pandora yearbook for the annual’s second edition.
Asa Wesley Griggs, Jr. affiliated himself with the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta and was initiated in January 1885. In 1886, he was the corresponding editor to The Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly for Kappa Deuteron Chapter. Griggs graduated from The University of Georgia in 1888 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. After graduation from Georgia, he enrolled in the National Normal University, a teacher’s college at Lebanon, Ohio.
Brother Griggs was a son of Dr. Asa Wesley Griggs, a native of Putnam County, Georgia, an 1849 graduate of The University of Georgia and, as his son would later become, a Demosthenian. Dr. Griggs was also an 1855 graduate of the medical department of the University of Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee, which later became a part of Vanderbilt University. Griggs, Sr. was a physician and surgeon and served in the Confederate States Army. He was born December 11, 1827 in Putnam County, Georgia and died August 16, 1900, West Point, Troup County, Georgia. A very small collection of Dr. Griggs’ letters can be found in the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
Career: After graduation from The University of Georgia and the normal school in Lebanon, Ohio, about 1889, Brother Griggs moved to Texas where he was the superintendent of education in Giddings, Lee County, Texas, about 50 miles east of Austin, Texas.
Thereafter, he was an administrator and teacher for schools in Bastrop, El Paso, Kaufman, Van Zandt and Wharton counties in Texas. In 1924, he began what would be his final assignment for West Columbia schools in Brazoria County, Texas. For his service, Griggs Field at Columbia High School was named in honor of this Kappa Deuteron Brother.
While teaching in Van Zandt County, Griggs shot a man in an argument over school matters. Details uncovered are few, but it would appear that Griggs was not charged or charges were dismissed later.
The St. Louis Republic, St. Louis, Missouri, Sunday, May 13, 1900, p. B-1:
WOUNDED BY A TEACHER.
Wills Point, Tex., May 12 - John Long, a farmer, was shot and mortally wounded by Asa W. Griggs, a school teacher, at Myrtle Springs today.
In another account, published in The Times-Democrat newspaper of New Orleans, it was stated that: “The men quarreled over a school matter. Prof. Griggs surrendered to the peace officers.”
“History of the University of Georgia,” by Thomas Walter Reed; Chapter IX: The Administration of Chancellor Patrick H. Mell, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, ca. 1949, p. 1276 of the original typed manuscript:
“ASA WESLEY GRIGGS as a student was a good mixer, his personality attractive. He took much interest in different student activities and maintained good standing in his classes. He became a teacher and devoted all the years of his life to that profession. His teaching was done in Texas ... ”
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Brother Griggs was a prominent educator and public school administrator in Texas for almost 40 years.
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The Bastrop Advertiser, Bastrop, Texas, Saturday, May 16, 1896, p. 7:
“As a scholar [GRIGGS] is first class, being a graduate of the University of Georgia. As a teacher, he has no superior and few equals.”
