Darkey Griffin

Name: Darkey Griffin
Birth Name: Benjamin Griffin
Hometown: Albany, New York, USA
Birthplace: Georgia, USA
Pro Boxer: Record

There is no Benjamin Griffin the 1920 census or the WWI draft, or in US-Canada crossings, however, there is a Darkey Griffin living in a boarding house in Detroit in 1920. He is working as a laborer at one of the auto plants, 28 years old, and was born in New York.

In the 1910 census there is a Benjamin Griffin, lodger, professional boxer, living in Brooklyn, New York. He is listed as 22 years old and born in Georgia.

They may both be him. Perhaps someone else answered in the 1920 census for him as he was in Canada fighting at the time. He had most recently lived in New York so they may have said he was from New York and they guessed at the age.

There is a Benjamin Griffin, unemployed, born Dec. 12, 1888, Savannah, Georgia, living in Brooklyn, New York, who registered June 5, 1917 for the draft. He is single (as is Darkey Griffin) and lists himself as "disabled from burns."