Biographical Sketch of Isaac N. Briggs, Jr., Johnson County, Missouri
Jackson Township
>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

ISAAC N. BRIGGS, JR.,

is the third son of Isaac Briggs, Sr.  He was born in Bridgeport,
Addison county, Vermont, May 31, 1827.  At the age of ten he moved with
his parents to Ticonderoga county, New York, in the immediate vicinity
of old Ticonderoga Fort, situated at the mouth of Lake George.  From
thence they moved to Middleburg, New York, the county seat of Addison
county.  Here Isaac was apprenticed to learn the painter's trade.  When
he was 16 years old his father died, leaving a wife and a younger son
than Isaac.   Mr. Alvin Briggs is now a resident of Kansas.  In the
year 1849, Isaac, with his mother and brother, emigrated to Jackson
county, Ohio, and in 1851 to Eight Mile Island, on the Ohio river, in
Scioto county, Ohio.  He married Miss Epalonia Sisler on April 27, 1852,
and the union was blessed with five children, three daughters and two
sons: Mahalia, Edith, Sarah, Orville and  Edson.  In the year 1860 he
moved with his family to St. Louis, Missouri, his mother having died
some two years previous at Kigersville, Gallia county, Ohio.  Early in
the commencement of the rebellion, he secured a position on the police
force of St. Louis, in which capacity he served, until the close of the
war.  In December, 1863, his wife died and was buried in the beautiful
cemetery of St. Peters.  The three daughters remained in St. Louis, and
were educated in a female seminary of that city.  The eldest son died in
infancy and Edson, the youngest, in 1863, was left to be cared for, with
a Mrs. Shepherd, at the corner of 21st street and Franklin Avenue, St.
Louis.  Sometime in the year 1866, Mrs. Shepherd mysteriously
disappeared with young Edson in her possession and no clue to her or the
boy has yet been obtained, although vigilant search has been made.  In
February, 1865, Mr. Briggs came to Holden, Johnson county, Missouri,
where he married his second wife, Miss Sallie W. Denney, of Kingsville
township, July 30, 1865.  To this union eight daughters were born:
Maggie, Florence, Laura E., Theresia E. and Minnie, are living in
Johnson county.  Estelle Ruth and two infant twins are dead, and sleep
beside their mother who died on December 12, 1877, and was buried in the
Bluff Spring cemetery, one half mile northwest of the town of
Kingsville.  Mrs. John Wear the first daughter of the first union
resides in Johnson county.  The second daughter, Sarah, now Mrs. Peters,
lives at Troy, 16 miles from East St. Louis, in Illinois.  Mrs. Borches,
the third daughter, is living in St. Louis.  Mr. Briggs is now located
at Kingsville, Johnson county, Missouri.  He still uses the brush as a
means of livelihood, and is admitted to be classed in the ranks of his
art, as a painter of no mean ability.

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