Brief Life History of George Gordon
George Gordon Briggs was born on 16 April 1913, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States as the son of Helen I. Burge. He married Margaret Mary Hoover on 1 January 1936, in Brighton, Adams, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Election District N, Denver, Colorado, United States in 1940 and Adams, Colorado, United States in 1950. He died on 18 April 2000, in Westminster, Jefferson, Colorado, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Arvada Cemetery, Arvada, Jefferson, Colorado, United States.
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- George G Briggs, "United States Census, 1950"
- Gordon Briggs, "Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006"
- George Gordon Briggs, "Colorado, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
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World Events (8)
1914 · The Ludlow Massacre
On April 20, 1914, the Colorado national Guard and the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards, attacked striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado, killing 25 people, including miners, women, and children.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1936 · Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
"Built on property donated by the Broadmoor Art Academy, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center was built in April of 1936. This was in the middle of the """"Gret Deperession"""" and Alice Bemis Tylor funded the project to help employ laborers who were unemployed."
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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