Briggs, Ansel – Bright, Jesse D
Briggs, Ansel
governor. He was elected governor of Iowa in 1846, and remained in the office until 1850.
Briggs, Caleb
physician, geologist, was born May 24, 1812, in North Rochester, Mass. He was educated as a physician, but devoted himself to the study of geology and its allied sciences, and was engaged in the first survey of the coal and iron regions of Ohio. He entered upon the work in June, 1837, explored Scioto, Lawrence, Gallia, Athens, Jackson, Hocking, and afterward Wood, Crawford, and Tuscarawas counties, and, after the survey terminated in 1839, was employed in surveying the western counties of Virginia. He then settled at Ironton, Ohio, where he engaged in mining and gave $25,000 to found a public library. He died Sept. 28, 1884, in North Rochester, Mass.
Briggs, Charles Augustus
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 15, 1841, in New York city. He is a presbyterian clergyman prominent among the leaders of newer religious thought and a professor at Union Theological seminary, New York, since 1875. In 1892 he was tried for her- ⚫esy and acquitted. He is the author of Biblical Study; American Presbyterianism; Messianic Prophecy, notable for its display of the true historical spirit; The Authority of Holy Scripture; The Messiah of the Apostles; The Messiah of the Gospels; The Higher Criticism of the Hexateuch; The Bible, the Church, and the Reason; Whither? and a Theological Question for the Times.
Briggs, Charles E
artist, poet, was born Sept. 19, 1828, in Fairhaven, Mass.
He is an artist in landscape and fruit painting, in Brewster, Mass.; and his poems occasionally appear in the periodical press.
Briggs, Charles Frederick
journalist, author, was born in 1804, in Nantucket, Mass. He was a journalist and editor of New York city, and the valued friend of many of the prominent literary Americans of his time. He was the author of Adventures of Harry Franco, a Tale of the Great Panic; The Haunted Merchant; The Trippings of Tom Pepper; and Working a Passage, or Life on a Liner. He died June 20, 1877, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Briggs, D. Luther
business man, public official, legislator, was born Jan. 12, 1849, in Sackville, N. B. He has been successfully engaged in the wholesale meat business in Middletown, Conn., for many years; has served as alderman for two years, and for four years was mayor of the city.
He has also been chairman of the town committee, justice of the peace, and filled various other public offices of honor in his city, county and state. He has been president of the republican state league, and is a prominent member of various secret orders. In 1897 he served with distinction as a member of the Connecticut state legislature, and was a member of several important committees.
Briggs, George
business man, legislator, congressman, was born in 1805, in Fulton county, N. Y. He represented the city of New York in congress from 1849 to 1853, and in 1858 was elected to the thirty-sixth congress. He died June 1, 1869, in Saratoga, N. Y.
Briggs, George
lawyer, legislator, was born April 26, 1844, in Brandon, Vt.
In 1866 he graduated from the Hobart college of Geneva, N. Y. He has served as a member of the Vermont house of representatives; and also as a member of the state senate. He has been vice-president of the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance company; vice-president of the Rutland Savings bank; director of the National Life Insurance company; has been prominently identified with various other business enterprises; and is one of the foremost attorneys of his state.
Briggs, George Nixon
lawyer, jurist, governor, congressman, was born April 12, 1796, in Adams, Mass. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1831 to 1843; and from 1844 to 1851 was governor of Massachusetts. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1853; from 1853 to 1859 held the position of judge of the court of common pleas; was a trustee of Williams college for sixteen years; and a noted advocate of the temperance cause.
He died Sept. 12, 1861, in Pittsfield, Mass. was
Briggs, Henry C
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born June 29, 1831, in West Haven, Vt. He is a noted lawyer of Kalamazoo, Mich.; was a member of the Michigan state senate in 1861-62; prosecuting attorney of Kalamazoo for four years; and in 1868 was elected judge of probate of his county, and held that position for eight years.
Briggs, Henry Shaw
soldier, lawyer, was born Aug. 1, 1824. He graduated at Williams in 1844, and became a lawyer.
At the beginning of the civil war he joined the army as colonel of the tenth Massachusetts volunteers, and distinguished himself at the battle of Fair Oaks, where he was wounded. In 1862 he was made a brigadier-general.
Briggs, James F
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 23, 1827, in England. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1856, 1857, 1858, and 1874. In 1871 he removed to Manchester, N. H.; was a state senator in 1876; and was elected a representative from New Hampshire to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.
Briggs, Le Baron R
educator, was born December, 1855, in Salem, Mass. In 1883 he was appointed instructor in English at Harvard; professor in 1890; and in 1891 dean of the college.
Briggs, William T
clergyman, author, poet, was born Dec. 1, 1815, in Scituate, Mass. He was ordained in 1846 as a congregationalist minister, and has filled important pastorates in Massachusetts. During the war he served for a while as chaplain in the Finley hospital of Washington, D. C. He has published several sermons, many articles and addresses, and a few poems.
Brigham, Amariah
physician, author, was born Dec. 26, 1798, in New Marlborough, Mass. He was a physician of Hartford, and subsequently superintendent of the lunatic asylum of Utica, N. Y. He was the author of The Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology of the Brain.
He died Sept. 8, 1849, in Utica, N. Y.
Brigham, Charles Henry
clergyman, author, was born July 27, 1820, in Boston, Mass. He became pastor of a unitarian church in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1866, and in the same year was chosen professor of biblical archæology and ecclesiastical history at Meadville, Pa., Theological school, where he lectured twice a year for ten years. He has published Letters of Foreign Travel in two volumes, and Life of Rev. Simeon Daggett. He died Feb. 19, 1879, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Brigham, Elijah
merchant, congressman, was born in 1750 in Northborough, Mass. He was a merchant and held many positions of trust and responsibility. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1811 to 1816, when he resigned. He died April 22, 1816, in Washington city.
Brigham, Joseph H
soldier, state senator, was born Dec. 12, 1838, in Lodi, Ohio. He served in the war as a lieutenant-colonel, and subsequently was elected to the Ohio state senate. For ten years he was master of the State Grange, and has been prominent in the improvements of his state.
Brigham, Lewis A
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 2, 1831, in York Mills, N. Y. He was elected superintendent of the public schools of the city of Bergen, N. J., from 1866 to 1870; was a member of the board of police commissioners of Jersey City from 1874 to 1876, and was a representative of the state legislature in 1877. He was elected a representative from New Jersey to the fortysixth congress as a republican. He died Feb. 20, 1886.
Brigham, Paul
soldier, jurist, was born in 1745. He was four years a captain in the revolutionary army, was high sheriff of Windsor county, Vt., for five years, major-general of militia, and chief judge of the county court for five years.
He was lieutenant-governor of the state from 1796 till 1813, and again from 1815 till 1820. From Aug. 25 till Oct. 16, 1797, he was acting governor. He died June 16, 1824, in Norwich, Vt. .
Brigham, Willard I. Tyler
lawyer, genealogist, was born May 31, 1859, in Montpelier, Vt. For five years he was on the Shakespearian stage, with such stars as Booth and Barrett. He is the historian of the Brigham and Tyler Families' associations of the United States; a member of the New England Historical Genealogical society; Sons of the Revolution; Society Colonial Wars and various other societies. He is the author of a volume of verse and has followed his profession of law with success in Grand Rapids, Minneapolis and Chicago.
Brigham, William Tufts
naturalist, lawyer, author, was born in 1841 in Massachusetts. He is a lawyer and naturalist now at Honolulu in charge of the government museum, and is the author of Volcanic Manifestations in New England; Guatemala: and the Land of the Quetzal, a volume of travels.
Bright, Jesse D
jurist, state senator, lieutenant, governor, United States senator, was born Dec. 18, 1812, in Norwich, N. Y. He was circuit judge of Indiana; state senator; marshal of the United States for the district of Indiana; and lieutenant-governor of that state.
He was a United States senator from Indiana from 1845 to 1857, and president of the senate during several sessions. He was elected for an additional term in 1857, for six years. He subsequently settled in Kentucky, and was elected to the senate of that state. He died May 20, 1875, in Baltimore, Md.