BIOGRAPHIES:  Benjamin J. BRIGGS, Stockholm, Pepin Co., WI

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Benjamin J. Briggs, teacher, Stockholm, Pepin county, was born at
Golden Lake, Wis., October 11, 1866, and is the son of William and
Jennie Sarah Briggs.  William Briggs was a lieutenant in the United
States army.  The maternal ancestors were a Quaker family of Irish
descent, and some of them were persecuted in Boston.  When Benjamin J.
was about one year old his parents removed to Oconomowoc and in 1872 to
Chicago.  Later they came to Neosho, Wis., and in 1876 to Plum City,
Wis.  Mrs. Briggs was engaged for about fifteen years in teaching in
this state, often traveling through severe storms and deep snow to her
schools, at the same time maintaining a home and teaching her two sons,
enduring all hardships with a fortitude and courage possessed by few
women.  Benjamin J. Briggs has been teaching for the past five years
and makes that his occupation.  His brother, Charles Wing Briggs, was
born at Oconomowoc, Wis., June 11, 1868.  Besides his home instruction
he has attended summer normals at Pepin.  He began teaching at the age
of eighteen years and is now a teacher at Lake City, Minn.  In 1885 the
family removed to Montrose, Henry county, Mo., and in 1887, to
Stockholm, where they have built a comfortable home in a very pleasant
location, overlooking Lake Pepin.  At the time of the great disaster to
the steamer "Sea Wing," which occurred near here in the summer of 1890,
the brothers went to the rescue in a row boat, and succeeded in saving
the life of one of the passengers.  The family are members of the
Methodist church and the I. O. G. T.  The influence of the exemplary
lives led by this family, as well as their long professional labors,
can not fail to be long felt throughout the community.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 902


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