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Lydon W. '-Briggs. YI)ON W. BRIGGS was born in Lancaster, Erie County, New York, May 16, 1840. lie attended an academy in that place from the age of eight to twelve years. He came with the family to Wisconsin in 1852. They settled in Kenosha county, where he attended district school in winter and worked on the farm in summer. In the fall of 1857 he entered the Kenosha High School. In 1862, in the darkest days of war between the states, he enlisted in the Seventh Wisconsin Battery, Hying Artillery, and served until the troops were mustered out in 1865. In that year he was made Superintendent of Kenosha county schools without opjK sition, and in 1867 was appointed principal of a ward school in Racine. Here was begun the acquaintance between Mr. Briggs and President Albee that developed into a close and lifelong friendship. In 1871, President Albee took charge of the Oshkosh Normal School, and a year later Mr. Briggs was made principal of the high school at Green Bay. He continued in charge of this school for live years, and conducted it with marked success. In 1877, he left Green Bay to take charge of the high school in Manitowoc. In 1878, at the end of one year’s service, he resigned his position there to accept a call to the Oshkosh Normal School. This call was made by President Albee to the friend and co-worker of former years with the certainty that the service rendered would be loyal and efficient. There arc hundreds, even thousands, who can testify that during the twenty years of this relationship, no man, no institution, ever had a more devoted assistant: The loyalty, the efficiency, the untiring, self-sacrificing character of this service made it indispensable to the recipients. Such service can never be bought and paid for; it can only be appreciated. That it was appreciated by him to whom it was personally rendered, was attested by many marks, and by a letter to the alumni sent from a full heart and a weary hand in the midst of sickness that found no cure. That it is appreciated by the Board of Normal School Regents they have shown in the most substantial manner in the year just past. For twenty-one years, Mr. Briggs has gone in and out among us, not only doing well the duties to which he was appointed, but seeing others, “not nominated in the bond”, and performing them in the spirit of service without reference to the reward. But the reward is in the character of the work, and follows as the harvest follows the seed-time. That Mr. Briggs may reap abundantly is the sincere wish of those who have worked with him in the institution that he has always served so unselfishly. 9
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