When Robert Edwin Briggs was born in 1880, in Crook, Durham, England, his father, Daniel Briggs, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth Corkill, was 30. He married Jane Izatt on 22 July 1909, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Middlewich, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1901 and Logan, Cache, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 28 February 1938, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
On May 17, 1884, the Logan temple was dedicated by John Taylor. It was the only temple dedicated by him and was the second temple in Utah. The temple went under a major reconstruction project in 1976 to increase the capacity of the rooms inside and was rededicated in 1979 by Spencer W. Kimball.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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.
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My grandmother Elizabeth Joan Wilson writes a story of visiting her Uncle Rob's family in San Francisco when she was young. "It sure was a treat to a little country kid like me to go to San Francisco …
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