When Harold Pierce Briggs was born on 16 June 1891, in Grand Ledge, Eaton, Michigan, United States, his father, Robert Douglas Briggs, was 28 and his mother, Rose Sophronia Luella Delphine Pierce, was 28. He married Agnes Lucile Perry on 16 June 1914, in Flushing, Genesee, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Detroit Ward 22, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940 and Warren, Macomb, Michigan, United States in 1950. In 1930, at the age of 38, his occupation is listed as clerk, factory. He died on 30 May 1957, in Macomb, Macomb Township, Macomb, Michigan, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Flint River Cemetery, Richfield Center, Richfield Township, Genesee, Michigan, United States.
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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