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  Driggs, John F.
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NameJohn F. Driggs
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Saginaw, Michigan , United States
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Born March 08, 1813
DiedDecember 17, 1877 (64 years)
ContributorThomas Walker
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Sep 15, 2015 04:05am
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InfoDRIGGS, John Fletcher, a Representative from Michigan; born in Kinderhook, N.Y., March 8, 1813; completed preparatory studies; moved with his parents to Tarrytown, N.Y., in 1825; moved to New York City in 1827; apprentice, journeyman, and master mechanic in the trade of sash, door, and blind manufacturing 1829-1856; superintendent of the New York penitentiary and public institutions on Blackwells Island in 1844; moved to Michigan in 1856; engaged in the real-estate business and salt manufacturing; president of the common council of East Saginaw, Mich., in 1858; member of the State house of representatives in 1859 and 1860; was tendered an appointment as colonel during the Civil War; organized the Twenty-ninth Michigan Infantry July 29, 1864; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1869); unsuccessful candidate for election in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress; one of the committee appointed to accompany the body of President Lincoln to Springfield, Ill., for interment; injured by a fall on the ice in the winter of 1875-1876, as a result of which he died in East Saginaw, Mich., December 17, 1877; interment in Brady Hill Cemetery, Saginaw, Mich.; reinterment in Forest Lawn Cemetery.


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