Briggs, Ansel

BRIGGS

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 11/28/2007 at 21:04:13

The People of Iowa, Edgar Harlan, 1931.

Ansel Briggs was a New Englander, was without special educational advantages beyond a term in the academy, and had come west to take advantage of the business opportunities rather than to make a public career. He was born in Vermont February 3, 1806, and about 1830 went to Ohio. There he became interested in establishing and operating stage lines, and it was his interest in this phase of pioneer transportation that brought him to the Black Hawk Purchase of Iowa. In 1836 he located at Andrew, Jackson County, Iowa. During the territorial period he held a number of contracts for the carrying of United States mail in Iowa, He served a term in the Territorial House of Representatives and in September, 1846, was nominated by the Democrats for governor and was elected by a majority of 161 votes. After his four year term as governor he retired from public life, He died at the home of his son in Omaha, Nebraska, May 5, 1881, at the age of seventy-five. The body of Ansel Briggs was returned to Andrew, Jackson County, Iowa, and there reinterred May 23, 1909, through an appropriation of $1,000.00 by the Thirty-third General Assembly. A permanent and dignified monument was set up and publically dedicated through the direction of Hon. J.W.Ellis.

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