California Historical Society, California Historical Society Quarterly (1951)
“ Charles Francis Griffin was born in Lassen County, California, on April 26, 1869, the son of Francis Marion Griffin, an early pioneer of Benicia and native of Searsport, Maine, and Margaret Malloy Griffin of Roxbury, Massachusetts. He attended school in Vallejo and, following his graduation from Vallejo High School, registered at Cooper Medical College, San Francisco, now the medical department of Stanford University, receiving his M.D. degree with the class of 1891. He at once engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery, in the city of his choice—San Francisco. ”
