Calkins-Briggs marriage

CALKINS, BRIGGS, CARROLL

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 2/16/2011 at 19:35:25

Jackson Sentinel, January 9, 1890

MARRIED-At the home of the bride’s parents in Wyoming on December 26, 1890, Miss Elva Calkins to William E. Briggs of Centerville, South Dakota, the Rev. George R. Carroll officiating. The bride, Miss Elva Calkins, daughter of Dr. M. H. Calkins, is too well known to our people to need words commendatory from us. She is a graduate of Mt. Carroll, Illinois Female Seminary and has taught in the public schools of Wyoming and Maquoketa meeting with admirable success. Her life up to her marriage was mostly spent in Wyoming and was one of usefulness. Her kindly and effective efforts in keeping up a literary organization for the culture and education of our young people have been productive of much good and she will in this circle be especially missed. Mr. Briggs is the son of Moore Briggs, Des Moines, formerly of Wyoming and the marriage the consummation of an attachment of long standing between the young people. Mr. Briggs is a banker at Centerville, South Dakota, and is highly spoken of as a leading business in that place. The Journal extends the warmest and most hearty of congratulations, wishing the couple a long and useful life.-Wyoming Journal