George N. Briggs
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George Nixon Briggs was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. A Whig, Briggs served for twelve years in the United States House of Representatives, and served seven one-year terms as t
Portrait c. 1848
Hiland Hall of Vermont was a longtime friend and Congressional colleague.
Henry Shaw Briggs
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Henry Shaw Briggs was brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
George N. Briggs
…establish a Baptist church in Lanesboro; in this congregation he met Harriet Hall, whom he married in 1818; their children were Harriet, George, and Henry. Briggs was also called upon to raise the four orphaned children of his brother Rufus, one of the brothers who supported him in his law studies. Rufus…
Henry Shaw Briggs