Santa Clara County Biographies


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R. S. BRIGGS
 
 
 
R. S. BRIGGS, master builder on the construction of the buildings for the Leland 
Stanford, Jr., University, is a man who has made his own way in the world, and 
progressed to positions of responsibility from modest beginnings. He is a native 
of North Lancashire, England, born March 19, 1833, and was reared there to the 
age of twenty-three years, learning the stone-mason's and general building 
trades. He came to America in 1857, and to California in the following year.
 
 
SOURCE:  Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, 
California, Illustrated. - Edited by H.S. Foote.- Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing 
Company, 1888. page 255 Transcribed by Carol Lackey