John DeQuedville Briggs Sr. (1885 - 1965)

Born 14 Mar 1885 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret Floyd (Crosby) Flory — married 2 Jul 1907 (to 20 Apr 1917) in Helena, Lewis and Clark, Montana, United States

Husband of Marjorie Scott (Winslow) Briggs — married 20 Jun 1925 in South Haven, Van Buren, Michigan, United States

Died 1965 at about age 79 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

John was born in 1885, the son of LeBaron Briggs and Mary DeQuedville. He attended Harvard, graduating in 1906; the following year, he married Margaret Floyd Atwater in her native city of Helena, Montana, and they had two children, both born after they had moved to Minnesota where he became a teacher, and in 1914, headmaster, at St. Paul Academy. The marriage apparently ended in divorce in 1917; Margaret's 1918 passport application includes a handwritten note across part of its face, "Divorce decree dated April 20, 1917" (remainder illegible). [Note: this squares with my personal recollection of her son, John DeQ. Briggs. Jr., saying that his parents had divorced. -- Christopher Childs (WT Childs-1516)]

Daughter Henrietta Wood Briggs was born 09 Sep 1908 at Plymouth, Massachusetts, where John's parents had a home; she married ____ Payson; Henrietta died 27 March 1942, and was buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts (though she is also memorialized in the family plot in Plymouth). Son John DeQuedville Briggs, Jr., was born in St. Paul in 1911.

John, Sr., remarried, in 1925, Marjorie Scott Winslow, born in River Forest, Illinois, in 1900. They had children Mary, born about 1927, and Winslow, born about 1929. John remained headmaster at St. Paul until 1948. He died in 1965, and is buried in the family plot at Oak Grove Cemetery in Plymouth.

Sources

• "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch ([1] : 1 March 2016), John Dequedville Briggs, 14 Mar 1885, Cambridge, Massachusetts; citing reference ID #, Massachusetts Archives, Boston

• Marriage: "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950," database with images, FamilySearch ([2] : 21 September 2017), John D. Q. Briggs and Margaret Floyd Atwater, 02 Jul 1907; citing Marriage, Helena, Lewis and Clark, Montana, county courthouses, Montana

• Career; general biographical (family information): "D.B. Robinson's Genealogy Database", [3]

• Remarriage: "D.B. Robinson's" above, and FindAGrave page for Marjorie Winslow Briggs, [4]

• Children by second wife: "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch ([5] : accessed 24 October 2017), Marjorie W Briggs in household of John Briggs, Ward 7, St. Paul, St. Paul City, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 90-154, sheet 7B, line 59, family 198, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1998.

• Daughter: FindAGrave entry for Henrietta Briggs Payson, [6]; also, Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910. (From original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.), [7]

• Death, family members, and burial: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 27 February 2020), memorial page for John DeQuedville Briggs, Sr (1885–1965), Find A Grave Memorial no. 138047653, citing Oak Grove Cemetery, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Joan Ellis Pulis (contributor 47051328); https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138047653/john-dequedville-briggs