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John Smith Griffin (1807–1899) was an American missionary in Oregon Country who participated at the Champoeg Meetings that created the Provisional Government of Oregon in 1843. In Oregon he served as a tutor at Fort Vancouver and later organized a church on the Tualatin Plains in the Tualatin Valley. ==Early life== On November 23, 1807, John Griffin was born in Castleton, Vermont, to parents who immigrated from England.〔Corning, Howard M. (1956). ''Dictionary of Oregon History''. Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 104.〕 In New England and Ohio he received an education in both the schools and seminaries.〔 Griffin was then ordained a minister and sent to Litchfield County, Connecticut. His church, the Congregational Church, then sent him as an unaffiliated missionary to Oregon Country to convert Native Americans.〔
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