Biography of Edwin D. Briggs, page 973. History of De Kalb County, Indiana. Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885. Edwin D. Briggs, of the firm Briggs & Co., grocers, Butler Ind., was born in Jefferson County, N.Y., Dec. 4, 1854, a son of Clark Briggs, a native of the same county. He was reared and educated in his native county, receiving a good education in the common schools. He worked at cheese-making several years, and in 1878 left his native county and removed to Wood County, Ohio, where he was employed in the general store of C.E. Palmer & Co., of Bairdstown, about four years. He then, in company with his brother, Myron C., bought out his employers and carried on the business successfully three years. He than sold his interest to his brother and William A. Jones, who still carry on the business. He formed a partnership with Morrison Brunstetter, and bought a stock of groceries, confectionery, etc. In April, 1885, remove to Butler, where they are enterprising young men, and keep a full line of everything in their manner, their fair dealing an attentive treatment of customers has won for them many friends. Submitted by: Arlene Goodwin Auburn, Indiana Agoodwin@ctlnet.com