John Ely BRIGGS

BRIGGS, UPHAM

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/18/2015 at 16:35:15

July 30, 1890 --- February 9, 1952

John Ely Briggs, political science professor and historian, died at Iowa City, February 9, 1952; born at Washburn, Iowa, July 30, 1890, son of William J. and Anna Briggs; moved to O'Brien county when a small boy, and later to Eagle Grove, Iowa where he graduated from the high school in 1909; attended Morningside college at Sioux City, and was graduated there in 1913; began graduate work at the State University, received his master's degree in 1914 and his Ph.D. in 1916; edited the Palimpsest, published by the State Historical society for 23 years from 1922, has since been a professor in the department of political science; married, Nellie Upham, at Melvin, Iowa, June 19, 1917; surviving with the widow are a daughter, Shirley, of Washington, D.C. and a brother, Wilbur A. Briggs, of LaPorte City, Iowa.

The Annals of Iowa 31 (1952), 403.
http://ir.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/vol31/iss5/15