Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Brigham, L. W. May 25, 1841 - 
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REV. L. W. BRIGHAM, Pastor of St. Paul's (Universalist) Church, is a native of 
Elmore, Lamoilee Co., Vt., was born May 25, 1841, son of Elisha W. Brigham, 
who died Oct. 13, 1848, aged 34 years. His mother, who maiden name was 
Elizabeth L. Faunce, is still living at Northfield, Vt., at the age of 66. Mr. 
Brigham was educated at West Randolph, Royalton and West Brattleboro, Vt., and 
received his theological education under Rev. C. W. Emerson and Rev. O. B. 
Allis, Congregational clergymen of that State. He commenced his ministry in 
May, 1864, under a license from the Royalton Association of Congregational 
ministers, and later received a license from the Orleans Association (also 
Congregational), and preached in North Troy and Dover, Vt. till 1868. He then 
entered the ministry of the Universalist Church, and was ordained July 1, 
1868, by an ecclesiastical council composed of Unitarian and Universalist 
ministers, acording to the usages of the Congregational Churches of 
Massachusetts. After that, he was located at West Cummington, Mass., Rutland, 
Vt., and Whately, Mass., coming to La Crosse Aug. 1, 1874. He has been 
actively engaged in temperance work for several years; was at the head of the 
Encampment department of the order of Odd Fellows in Vermont and an elective 
officer in the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin. He is also President of the Wisconsin 
Universalist State Convention, and Chairman of the Committeee on Missions. 
Mrs. Brigham was Miss Etta M. Hubbard, of Vermont. They have two children - L. 
Ward and Bret H.; lost one in October, 1874 - Guy died, aged 4 months.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 741.

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