Brief Life History of Raymond L
When Raymond L Briggs was born in August 1898, in Burnsville, Yancey, North Carolina, United States, his father, Melvin Brown Briggs, was 36 and his mother, Alice Byrd, was 33. He married Hattie G. McWhirk Penland on 16 April 1923, in Wallace, Shoshone, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Burnsville Township, Yancey, North Carolina, United States in 1900. He died on 11 May 1926, in Portland, Washington, Oregon, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States.
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- Raymond Briggs in household of Melvin Briggs, "United States Census, 1900"
- Raymond L Briggs, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1962"
- Raymond Briggs, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"
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World Events (8)
1899 · Mount Rainier National Park is Established
Mount Rainier was established as a state park on March 2, 1899 with legislation was signed by President McKinley. Mount Rainier is a volcanic peak surrounded by forests.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
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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