KORA FRANK BRIGGS, son of Knowlton H. and Mary A. (Steele) Briggs, was born in Huron County, Ohio, March 6, 1858; moved with his parents to Wyandot County, where he grow to manhood; attended school at Upper Sandusky, and taught his first term in the winter of 1878-79, and five subsequent terms; attended the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, several years, teaching during vacation to pay his expenses. First newspaper work, as a solicitor for the Tiffin News, in 1880, and afterward for the Upper Sandusky Republican. In August, 1883, he engaged to Dumm & Brunner to take charge of the local department of the Marion Democratic Mirror. Shortly thereafter Messrs. Dumm & Brunner sold their interest in the Mirror, and Mr. Briggs came to Tiffin with Mr. Brunner, and assumed a similar place on the Seneca Advertiser, in April, 1884, which he still holds. Our subject is married to Emma E., daughter of John Brobst, of Upper Sandusky, and has one child, a little girl.


Trancribed by Bonnie Walsh.
WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part IV, p.p.760
CLINTON TOWNSHIP