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Welcome To Sullivan County, Indiana
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DR. CHARLES F. BRIGGSDR. CHARLES F. BRIGGS, physician and surgeon, Paxton, is a native of the township where he lives, being born March 25,1848, one of ten children born to Joseph W. and Elizabeth A. (Clippinger) Briggs, who settled in Sullivan in 1832, coming from Pennsylvania. Joseph W. was a Captain in the Mexican war, serving in the Second Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was in the battle of Buena Vista. Dr. Briggs received a commoon school education, but at the age of sixteen he enlisted in Company E, Fifty-seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served till the close of the rebellion, receiving an honorable discharge October 20, 1865. He was engaged in the following battles: Franklin, November 30, 1864, and the two days' fight at Nashville, December 15 and 16, 1864; went into winter quarters at Huntsville, Ala., and in the following summer (1865) was sent to New Orleans, and from there to Texas, where they were discharged at Victoria. On his return home he went to school one year, and then entered the dry goods business with James W. Hinkle in Sullivan, which continued eight years. December 28, 1871, he married Miss Josephine Hinkle, eldest daughter of his partner, James W. Hinkle. In 1875, he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. James R. Hinkle, at Sullivan, and in 1876 entered the Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio, from which institution he graduated February 28, 1878, when he commenced practice at Paxton. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is an I. O. O. F., having passed the chair in that order and twice represented his lodge in the Grand Lodge. He has had two children born to him--Bertha B., born October 9, 1872, and Carl F., born September 17, 1880. He is a Republican in politics, and takes an active interest in all public affairs.HAMILTON TWP. PAGE 748 FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC. ILLUSTRATED. 1884, CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. |
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