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Griffin was born in 1876 in Maywood, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
He was the eldest of the four children of George Walter Griffin, an insurance agent, and Estelle Griffin.
His family moved to Oak Park and later to Elmhurst during his childhood.
As a boy he had an interest in landscape design and gardening, and his parents allowed him to landscape the yard at their new home in Elmhurst.
Griffin completed high school at Oak Park High School.
He considered studying landscape design but was advised by the landscape gardener O. C. Simonds to pursue a more lucrative profession.
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