Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-04
STATE OFFICIALS TO PARTrcl.
PATE IN DEDICATION OF SHAFT
TO ANsEL BRIGGS.
loWA's FIRST GOVERNOR
RESTS IN JACKSON COUNTY
All State Officials and Members Of the
Legislature Extended Invitations to
BE Present at Ceremonies - Many
Will Attend-eody Recently Re.
moved to Iowa Soil.
pecial to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Waterloo, Aug. 4-The monument
erected to the memory of Hon. Ansel
Briggs, Iowa's first governor, will! be
dedicated Sept %, at Andrew, Jackson
county, where the body now rests.
The state officers and the members
OF the last general assembly Of Iowa
have been invited to attend the dedica-
tion and Speaker Guy A. Feely of this
city is planning to attend the ceremony.
Governor Ansel Briggs was COVER
nor Of Iowa from Oct 26, 1916, to
1850, and it seems singular that the
first governor of the Hawkeye
state should have been first laid at rest
when he died in Omaha, on May 5,
1881, in neighboring commonwealth
rather than in the one Of which he
was the first executive.
His Biography.
Ansel Briggs, the first governor OF
the state Of Iowa, was born in Vermont
on Feb. 8, 1906. About 1880 he
removed with his parents to Cam
bridge, O.. Here he became inter-
ested In establishing and operating
stage lines In 1886 he removed from
Ohio to Andrew, Jackson county, Iowa
where he continued to interest himself
in stage lines During the territorial
period he held a number of contracts
for carrying the United States mail in
Iowa.
In 1912 he was elected to the house
OF representatives of the territory of
Iowa. In September, 1876, he was nom
mated by the democrats 70 rthe office
Of governor Of Iowa. His election took
place in Octber of the same year. On
Dec. 8, 1886, he was inaugurated
as the first governor of the state of
Iowa. He served the full term of four
years.
For some time after his term of
office as governor, Ansel Briggs con-
tinued to reside at Andrew, Jackson
county; but in 1870 he removed to
Council Bluffs. He died at the home
OF his son in Omaha, Neb.. on May
is. 1881. He was buried in Omaha.
The Body Removed.
Perhaps the place Of death Of the
1rst governor accounts for his burial
In a different state, but couple OF
months ago the jackson County His
torical Association carried out plans
which caused the mortal remains of the
early executive to be removed from
their resting place in Nebraska to the
old home cemetery at Andrew, in Jack
son county, Iowa. Then in furtherance
Of the movement started by the histor-
ical association the last general as
sembly Of the state legislature voted
$1,000 for a monument to be erected
over the grave in the cemetery at
Andrew in memory of Governor Ansel
Briggs, of Iowa.
The services for the dedication OF
this monument are to be held on Sep
TENDER % and under the auspices OF
the Jackson county, Iowa, Historical
Association very neat announcements
have recently been sent out to all the
present state officers and members OF
the last general assembly inviting
them to attend these exercises. AS q
result a large number of the state
executive and legislative officers will
be in attendance at the dedication OF
the monument to Iowa's first COVER
nor, Ansel Briggs, to be held at An
drew, jackson county, Iowa, on Sep
TENDER %, and will do honor to the
memory of this first state executive.