Brief Life History of Mortimer Jay
When Mortimer Jay Briggs was born on 12 March 1898, in Middlebury Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Bert J Briggs, was 26 and his mother, Sadie Shaw, was 18. He married Lucy Ashley on 20 June 1927, in Livingston, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 11 February 1972, in Wellsboro, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Middlebury Center, Middlebury Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Mortimer J Briggs, "United States 1950 Census"
- Mortimer J Briggs, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
- Mortimer Jay Briggs, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1905 · The Movie Theater
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Brigg, with post-medieval excrescent -s, from Middle English brig(g) (Old Norse bryggja), the northern and Scottish word for bridge, for someone who lived by a bridge or who came from any of the places called from the word.
History: The surname Briggs is found chiefly in West Yorkshire. A family of gentry have held lands at Keighley in West Yorkshire continuously for 500 years. The mathematician Henry Briggs (1561–1631), who invented logarithms, was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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