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ELMER E. BRIGGS, M. D., post office Pittsburgh, was born June 11, 1861. His grandparents, William and Ann (Indle) Briggs, were natives of Yorkshire, England, and came to America in an early day. William was a man of means and education, and of a well-known family in England. He crossed the Atlantic seven times. He owned the old McClurg farm at Brownstown, and died at Webster, aged over eighty years. He was the father of five children: Thomas, Charles, John, Frederick and Martin. Of these John and Charles were pilots, and both were drowned. Martin Briggs was a carpenter by trade, but engaged in the coal business, and represented the southern coal trade in New Orleans. He married Caroline S., daughter of Nicholas Snyder, a native of Germany. She was born in Wilkesbarre, Pa., and has borne her husband four children: Mrs. Julia A. Painter, of San Francisco, Cal.; William H., Elmer E., M. D., and Herron G., M. D. Elmer E. received his primary education in the schools, of Pittsburgh, graduated at the Western University, and took the degree of Ph. M. He read medicine with Dr. John C. Burgher, and attended one course of lectures in the medical department at the University of Michigan, and two courses of lectures at the homeopathic college, New York, graduating in the class of 1883. He located in Pittsburgh, and practiced one year; then for one year was resident physician and surgeon of the homeopathic hospital of that city, where he has since practiced. Dr. Briggs married, in the year 1885, Florence Taylor, only daughter of Col. S. B. Taylor, of 62d regiment Ohio Volunteers, who was killed during the late rebellion, and they have one daughter, Hazel Frances, born June 22, 1887.

Dr. Herron G. Briggs was born Nov. 11, 1864, received the degree of Ph. M. at Western University, and afterward took a course in medicine at Hahnemann College, Chicago; then entered the homeopathic hospital at Pittsburgh as resident physician and surgeon, where he remained one year; afterward, in fall of 1888, he located in the Thirty-second ward, Pittsburgh, Pa.