U. F. BRIGGS, President of the Grant County Cooperative Association, Bloomington; was born in Genesee Co., N. Y., in 1828; came to Wisconsin in 1845, and settled in Milwaukee; removed to Grant Co. in 1857. Married Louisa Bishop, a native of Massachusetts; enlisted in Co. D, 33d W. V. I., in 1862, and was discharged in 1865; he held a commission of 1st Lieutenant.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.