DAVID GARROD
Bio-Sawyers
SURNMES: STAINES, PFEFFER, COLLINS,
.—A well educated gentleman who spent about a quarter of a century as
an educator is David Garrod, a native of England, born at Halstead,
Essex, November 14, 1846, a son of Richard and Emma (Staines) Garrod of
Halstead. The father was with "Courtaulds," a manufacturer of silk
crepe of that place, for fifty-four years. David Garrod, the eldest of
a family of eight children, was educated at Trinity Training School, at
Halstead, after which he entered Battersea College, London. where he
was graduated with honors, winning a Queen's scholarship, after which
he became principal of schools. He was married in Petmarsh, England,
August 20, 1878, to Miss Sophia Ann Creffield, born at the family home
"Brookehouse," Petmarsh, Essex, Louise Sophia, Vince Stolte and Richard
Ralph; Mary Creffield, a graduate of San Jose State Normal, is the wife
of Henry Pfeffer, an orchardist, at Castle Rock Ridge on the
Twenty-seven Mile scenic drive, and they have two children—Rose Mary
and Dorothy. The youngest child, Harold, is in the importing department
of the Santa Fe Railroad Company, with headquarters in San Francisco;
he married Hazel Collins of Santa Cruz and has two children—Olga and
Harold David.
Mr. Garrod took a prominent part in and was secretary of the Men's
Village Club in Horringer, and was a member of the Odd Fellows at
Benwick, Cambridgeshire. Mr. and Mrs. Garrod are members of the
Episcopal Church, and Mr. Garrod was for fifteen years organist at
Horringer and Ickworth.
Eugene T. Sawyers' History of Santa Clara County,California, published by Historic Record Co. , 1922. page 1106