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BENJAMIN NEWTON GRISSO

Benjamin Newton Grisso is the son of James
Madison and Nannie (Rettinger) Grisso, and was
born in Roanoke County May 30th, 1881. In his
youth he attended the
county schools and afterwards
took a preparatory
course at the
Botetourt Normal College,
Daleville, Virginia.
When twenty
years of age, he went
to West Virginia,
where he spent some
months, afterwards living
in Chicago and
other points in the
West, and then returned
to Roanoke,
where, on June 10th,
1908, he was married
to Ethel Farley, daughter
of W. H. and Frances
Farley, of Elkhorn,
West Virginia. To them one child has been born,
Juanita, aged one and one-half years.

Some two years ago he purchased the general
merchandise business of N. C. Powell, at Poages
Mill, and since that time has been most successful
and has built up a large trade among the people of
his neighborhood, the Bent Mountain section, and
from Floyd County.

He is the owner of a valuable tract of fine apple
land on the northern branch of Back Creek and a
splendid young orchard, bearing Albemarle Pippins,
graces this farm.

He is one of the county's progressive young business
men.