E. W. Briggs Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Potosi, Biographical Sketches, Page 939

E. W. BRIGGS, farmer and miner, Sec. 12; P. O. Rockville; born at Waterloo, 
Monroe Co., Ill., June 3,1838.  Son of Maquis D. and Mary D. (Gillman) Briggs; 
came to Grant Co. with parents at two months of age.  In March, 1854, went to 
Eldorado Co., Cal.; followed mining three years with indifferent success; 
returned to California three years later, and remained seven years mining, with 
good luck.  Married July 3,1858, by James Seaton, Esq., of Potosi, to Orilla, 
daughter of James and Emily (Clark) Jackson; she was born Feb. 17, 1842.  Had no 
children, but has adopted several.  Owns 40 acres of land.