Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-02-25
|R. EC. BRIGGS IS DEAD
aged Bushes Agent Of The Nor.
nal School Died Yesterday.
MINERAL TOMORROW AFTERNOON
aeoains WIN DO Taken to HE Former
hpmo In Massachusetts Where the
Body WIN Ress In the Family vaul,
with the School % Years.

ttaneral services for the late Mr..
''SFancis 9. Briggs Will occur from the
4 s'qapel In the Normal School grounds
S9morrow afternoon at A o'clock and
ssYglowing tho services tho remains
Slyiil DO tnken to Old Point and later
forwarded to his former home In
& s sa'l ecnusetts. where tho body will
he placed in tho family vault.
AIR. Briggs, who was tho business
nzent OF the Normal school died nj
pelcck yesterday afternoon In his
rtments on tho pchool grounds
Y 3lc'rn tho effects OF stroke of pn,nlys
which no received last Friday
orniEs. lie never regaIncd consc-
t9nsIes5 from tho time he was found
SIN his room. Last Thursday even.
lnlE Sir. Briggs spent an hour In cheer
Y " Sconversation. duflng which he re-
iAted muny incidents in connection
3 WITH the long time he had been with
sRe school TO q fellow worker. When
~ reured he was apparently IN his
Aauei health. but on Friday morning
ynen ne did not appear for breakfast
See friends OF tho aged gentleman be-
cafne uneaBy. A knock on HIS door
I ssssSed TO elicit n reply from Mr.
ggsi and whom the door was open
y go ~ WeB found that he had suffercl
slroke of paralysis. a remarkn-
pie eoincident Is that tho aged mother
3 VI Mr., Briggs died the same day in
< eprunry, 1875, IA her son and Mr.
4 tFfigsa death occurred ON the same
K our OF the anniversary OF the funeral
,fHb his mother, Mr.. Briggs nge was
= no same as that OF his mother on
TIE occasion OF her dcath-scvcnty-
y -four years
granei5 Chiclkerlng briggs was
morn In Norwood, Mass. December
4 ~ 1889, A son OF DR. John X. and
Hannah Chickering Briggs he
came, on both sides. from old pilgrim
LOCK-. seven of his direct ancestors
ilayipg landed on Plymouth Rock from
4 TIC hiayiiGwer He was educated at
academy. Follow.
business education. Mr.. Briggs
engaged in buslness with his brother.
F.ltchard Briggs, in Boston.
Came to Normal School.
During the late seventies Mr.
g9s, after enforced vacation
abroad, became interested IN tho wort
pf the Hompton Normal school and
was later INVITED by General Arm
4 tfang to como here to take part In
g the great work. So faithcl ana
s careful did his management of the
+ q fSatrs entrusted to him prove that the
. thcieanlngly lnrEe purchasing depart
ineua ofths institute passed into his
{ ~ aide. as well as the oversight Of tho
psluents' accounts and orders. and
other Hike important matters OF the
school internal economy. In all of
these positions. as well as secretary
y 10 tha faculty. and rs trusted friend.
y Nhs Briggs was in intimate relation
s;ayssli General Armstrong. as wei ma
h8S present principal. Dir. Herbert t.
D., fsfiesnll. His service with the schoo,
g HIS been twenty-nine years. as he
became connected with 1t in 1879.
lptall of his long years of wor,;
= Hh the school Mr. Briggs would
Meier accept salary In any degree
proportIouate to his services and n
said That he often returned 10 the
school most of the money he received.
Nh Briggs has educated quite a num-
per OF indian and colored boys by his
& own efforts.
10 Is recognized by all at the school
that the Institution has suffered :;
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