When David Briggs was born on 15 September 1858, in Hebron, Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Thomas Briggs, was 26 and his mother, Ann Kirkham, was 26. He married Rachel Amelia Tuttle on 12 September 1877, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Whitewater, Walworth, Wisconsin, United States in 1860. He died on 27 June 1884, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 25.
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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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From the diary of Thomas Briggs, David's father, it read, "Along about the middle of June, my son David brought me a load of hay and informed me that he was going to school in the winter and prepare h …
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