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SAMUEL BRIGGS, McKeesport, brickmason and inspector threading department Duquesne Tube-works, is a native of Staffordshire, near Birmingham, England, where he was reared and educated, and learned the brickmason’s trade. In the spring of 1871 he came to America and located in Chicago, where he remained six months. He then went to Joliet, Ill., and here he laid the first brick for the furnace of the Joliet Steel works. In 1873 he came to Braddock, this county, where he resided until 1876, when he removed to McKeesport, where he has since resided and worked at his trade, off and on. He was foreman of the furnace department National Tube-works company eight years; was one of the organizers of the Duquesne Tube-works company in 1887, of which he is director and also inspector of the threading department. He is a member of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, of which he was vestryman several years; is a F. & A. M., a member of the K. of H., of which he was trustee six years, and St. George’s society, of which he was treasurer six years; he is a republican.