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Griswold, Roger

* 1892/05/09† 1973/06/09

Who
WWI driver
When
WWI
Where
France
Education
Milton Academy '10; Harvard '14
Source: "United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database with images, FamilySearch
Further details

Roger Griswold was born on May 9, 1892 to Annie S. Merrill and William M. Griswold in Cambridge, Massasuchetts.
He graduated from Milton Academy in the spring 1910 and received his A.B. degree from Harvard in 1915. Griswold sailed to Buenos Aires soon after graduation to work for the River Plate Trading Company until May 1915. He joined the American Ambulance in Paris later that year, and became a member of the Section Two, American Field Service in 1916, seving for eight months. Griswold became an officer in the United States Army in 1917, training with the 15th Field Artillery at Pine Camp, New York and in Plattsburg, New York. He served in Germany with Battery A of First Battalion Field Artillery until he resigned his commission in 1919.

Later that year, Griswold oversaw the building of the schooner Lloyd W. Berry, co-owned with Harold Peters (AB 1910), and traveled around the North Atlantic in it for eleven months in 1920. From 1922 to 1925, he studied as a special student at the Architectural School at M.I.T. He married Penelope B. Parkman in June 1923; together they had four children. Griswold joined the architecture firm of Little and Russell in 1926, becoming a partner in 1929. Together with Millard Gulick (AB 1913), Griswold founded the architecture firm Griswold & Gulick.
Griswold served in World War II as a ground officer, major and lieutenant colonel, Air Corps, and from 1944 to 1945, served with the Office of Strategic Services in Algeria, France and Germany. After the war, Griswold resumed his architectural practice with a number of different partners, retiring as active partner from Griswold, Boyden, Wylde & Ames in 1961. Griswold’s first wife died in 1959, and Griswold married Christine de Marquetière Goutière – aka Christine Weston, the novelist – in June 1960. Griswold retired in 1973, and died later that year, on June 9th at San Rafael, California.


[From description of Scrapbook of Roger Griswold. ca. 1910-1917 (Harvard University Archives); slightly edited]

 

 

WWI File

Months of service
8, 1916
Section(s)
S.S.U. 2
Home at time of enlistment
Cambridge, Mass., USA
Subsequent Service
Capt. U.S.F.A.
Groupings

Members of SSU 2