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JOSEPH EAGLAN GRIFFITH

The second black lawyer in Nova Scotia. It is not certain if he was from Nevis or Antigua and born in 1881, he had travelled from Nevis, which was known as the British West Indies at that time, to New York. He married Janette

PERSONAL LIFE

He was married only once to an American named Janette Anderson who went to Halifax with him, but he later discovered that she was a bigamist and they seperated and she went back to New York. Joseph had two biological sons,_______ Griffith born in Nevis in 1914 and Joseph Eaglan Griffith (Fred) born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1942. Fred's mother was Vera Goldstream a white jewish woman whose father was a judge. She had gone to Joseph to get a divorce from her husband.