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Welcome To Sullivan County, Indiana
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CAPT. JOSEPH W. BRIGGSCAPT. JOSEPH W. BRIGGS was born in Cumberland County, Penn., February 12, 1811. Maj. David Briggs, the father of Joseph W., with no other influence than his personality and the Revolutionary fame of his family, raised a full battalion of men for the defence of Baltimore in the war of 1812, and during the campaigns which followed contracted diseases from which he never recovered. David was the son of Benjamin Briggs, who came to the American Colonies from the North of England about the year 1770. He raised a company for the Americans during the Revolution, and armed and uniformed them by mortgaging his estate, and when the war was half out and his men sadly needed food and clothing, he mortgaged the remainder. At the battle of Monmouth, he lost his right leg also by a cannon ball. Joseph W. was the second son of David. He graduated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penn., in 1830, with the honors of his class, and having studied law was admitted to practice. About this time, he married Miss E. A. Clippinger, daughter of John Clippinger, and soon afterward came to Carlisle, Sullivan County, where for a time he followed merchandising and farming. He was elected Probate Judge, and in 1836 Representative, and soon after this entered upon the practice of law, which he followed until his death. In 1846, he raised a full company of men for the war with Mexico, a sketch of which may be read elsewhere. He was knocked down by a spent ball at Buena Vista, but not seriously injured. After the war, and until his death, he was very prominent in the county and in his profession of law. He was a fine scholar and collected a large library, and is said to have particularly excelled in chancery practice. He was a fluent, logical and forcible speaker, of easy manner and pleasant address, and his society was much sought.HAMILTON TWP. PAGE 711 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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