"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
JACKSON TOWNSHIP AND MORGANTOWN, MORGAN CO., IN.
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EZRA H. BRIGGS, stock-raiser and farmer, was born October 8, 1823, in
Franklin County, Mass., and is the ninth of the thirteen children born to
Simeon and Elizabeth (Saddler) Briggs, natives of Massachusetts and of
English extraction. Ezra was reared a farmer, and remained in his native
county until he was twenty-six years old, at which time he came to this
State and settled in Dearborn County, where he was engaged at farming for
several years. In 1863, he came to Morgan County, which has since been his
home. Mr. Briggs is a member of the Republican party, by which he is very
highly regarded, and was elected in the spring of 1872 Assessor of this
township. He is a man of liberal views, of generous character and a
prosperous farmer and raiser of stock.
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