Sixteenth Generation

1481. Henry Little GRIGGS III was born on 1 September 1953 in Connecticut.^65,1215,1216 He graduated in 1977 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA.⁹⁶² He graduated Cum Laude with an A.B. Degree in Philosophy. In 1981 he was in Columbia, Richland County, SC.⁹⁶² He was the President of Triad, a political public relations company. Henry lived in Arlington, Northampton County, VA in 1993.¹²¹⁷ ¹²¹⁸ Source: DailyEntertainmentNews.com: "Meet Henry Little Griggs III, who has been married to author and journalist Jill Ellen Abramson for the past 33-years. His wife who is better known for her role as executive editor of The New York Times is finally spilling the beans following her very public dismissal back in May.
His wife and mother of the couple’s two children, is speaking out for the first time in the pages of Cosmopolitan’s September issue and Cosmo.com has a preview.

In it, Abramson opens up about everything from her firing, to crying over negative press, to Hillary Clinton, to offering up some sound career advice. During the revealing interview, the 60-year-old says 'Is it hard to say I was fired? No. I’ve said it about 20 times, and it’s not. I was in fact insistent that that be publicly clear because I was not ashamed of that. And I don’t think young women—it’s hard, I know—they should not feel stigmatized if they are fired.'

Henry met his future wife when they both attended their alma mater, Harvard. He graduated cum laude in Philosophy in 1977.
They tied the knot in 1981 and are the parents of Cornelia Griggs –who is happily married to Rob Goldstone–and Will Griggs–who is the co-founder of Record Label Cantora.

Griggs, the son of an NBC News producer, was then president of Triad, a political public relations company. He is now a self-described 'writer, editor and media-relations consultant specializing in nonprofit advocacy campaigns.'

Unlike his highly publicized wife, the 60-year-old is almost non-existent in the media, and he has been hardly ever seen, so he clearly enjoys a low profile. Both his children chose very different paths than both their parents and even though Cornelia and Will Griggs are very active on Instagram, neither talk about their father. However they both rave about their fearless mom.

Cornelia graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and received a medical degree from Columbia, while her brother followed the arts in the music industry.

Griggs worked in New York as a media-relations consultant specializing in nonprofit advocacy campaigns, is now the president of the Deacon John Grave Foundation, which maintains the Deacon John Grave House, a 1685 home in Madison, Conn. He is also a Trustee and chair of the Buildings and Grounds Committee of the Scranton Memorial Library in Madison, chair of the Archives Committee of the Charlotte L. Evarts Memorial Archives in Madison, and a Trustee of the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, based in Hamden CT. And he is also on the Board of Managers of the Spice Building Condominium in TriBeCa.

Under his wife’s reign at TNYT the newspaper won four Pulitzer prizes, but clearly that wasn't the issue. We'll sure hear more about her.

Henry and his wife have resided in New York, NY; Madison, CT; Arlington, VA and Chapin, SC."

Henry Little GRIGGS III and Jill Ellen ABRAMSOM were married about 10 March 1981 in Manhattan, New York City, New York County, NY.^92,962 Newspaper Article: "Jill Ellen Abramson and Henry Little Griggs 3d were married yesterday at the Hampshire House in New York by Walter Lawton, a leader of the New York Ethical Culture Society.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman L. Abramson of New York. Her father is retired president of Irish Looms Associates, New York textile importers. Her husband is a son of Henry L. Griggs Jr. of New York, a producer of NBC News in New York, and Lynne Patrick Griggs of Madison, Conn.

The bride was graduated from the Fieldston School and magna cum laude from Harvard College, from which Mr. Griggs was graduated cum laude in 1977 with an A.B. degree in philosophy. She is an editorial consultant at the American Lawyer magazine in New York. Her husband is president of Triad, a political public relations company in Columbia, S.C." Jill Ellen ABRAMSOM, daughter of Norman L. ABRAMSOM and Dovie BRANDT, was born on 19 March 1954 in Manhattan, New York City, New York County, NY.^1215,1219 She graduated in 1972 in New York City, Kings County, NY. from Ethical Culture Fieldston School. She graduated in 1976 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA.¹²²⁰ She received a BA in History and Literature from Radcliffe College. Jill graduated before 1981 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA.⁹⁶² Magna Cum Laude from Harvard College. After 1981 she was in New York City, Kings County, NY.^{962,1218,1220} Life Sketch: "Jill Ellen Abramson (born March 19, 1954) is an American author, journalist, and academic. She is best known as the former executive editor of The New York Times; Abramson held that position from September 2011 to May 2014. She was the first female executive editor in the paper's 160-year history.

Abramson joined the New York Times in 1997, working as the Washington bureau chief and managing editor, before being named as executive editor. She previously worked for The Wall Street Journal as an investigative reporter and a deputy bureau chief.

In March 2016, she was hired as a political columnist for Guardian US. In 2019, she received widespread criticism from journalists after her book Merchants Of Truth was found to contain plagiarized passages and numerous factual errors.

In 2012, she was ranked number five on the Forbes list of most powerful women. She was also named as one of the 500 most powerful people in the world by Foreign Policy."

Early in her career, she was an editorial consultant at the American Lawyer magazine.

Henry Little GRIGGS III and Jill Ellen ABRAMSOM had the following children:

+1874	i.	Doctor Cornelia GRIGGS.
1875	ii.	William "Will" GRIGGS was .¹²¹⁸ He is the co-founder of the record label Cantora.