Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887
Nelson Co.

ANDREW BRIGGS was born September 20, 1853.  His father, Thomas H. Briggs,
was born in Nelson County, September 16, 1823.  His wife was Miss Elizabeth
McMakin.  Their family consisted of four sons: Peyton, Andrew, John and
Alexander, and one daughter, Katie.  He has since attaining manhood
followed farming with uniform success and has held office of magistrate of
the county for over forty years.  His father, Andrew Briggs, was a native
of Edinburgh, Scotland.  He came to the United States a short time after
the Revolutionary war, and settled in Nelson County, of which county he
became one of its most successful and extensive farmers.  He was a true and
consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and died at the age of
sixty-four in the year 1857.  He was twice married, first to Miss Nancy
Robinson, by whom he was the father of nine children; his next marriage was
to Miss Mary Ferguson; to their union five children were born.  Two of his
sons were members of the Confederate Army.  Peyton McMakin, maternal
grandfather of our subject, was a native Kentuckian, born in Oldham County
in the year 1800; he also became a very extensive farmer of Nelson County,
and owned a large number of slaves.  He married Miss Katie Bane and they
reared a family of nine children; three of his sons fought on the
Confederate side in the late war.  In politics he was a staunch Democrat;
he was a member of the Methodist Church.  He died in 1864.  Andrew Briggs,
a native of Nelson County, has all his life followed the pursuits of the
farm.  His early education was good, partially obtained at Lynnwood College
in Hardin County.  His wife, whom he married September 19, 1878, was Miss
Elizabeth Muir; they have only one child, a son named Elmo.  Mr. Briggs
devotes his entire attention to his vocation of farming and takes great
interest in anything which will be to the advantage of his co-workers in
that field; he is an active member of the Nelson County Agricultural
Association, in which he holds the position of director, and is the
proprietor of a fine, well improved farm of 166 acres, situated on the
Bardstown and Bloomfield pike, about two and one-half miles from the latter
place.  He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.  His
political views are Democratic.

Briggs McMakin Robinson Ferguson Bane Muir
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Oldham-KY Hardin-KY Scotland

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