Hattie BRIGGS

Born

17 May 1859 , Adams, Massachusetts, USA

Died

5 March 1920 , Connecticut, USA

View Family Tree

Pedigree Chart

Life & Records

Parents & Family of Hattie BRIGGS

Parents of Hattie BRIGGS

Father

Russell Brown BRIGGS

Mother

Eliza MANCHESTER

Grandparents of Hattie BRIGGS

Paternal grandparents

Asaph Leonard BRIGGS Lilly EATON

Maternal grandparents

Abel O. MANCHESTER Sophia DAVIS

Married ? Fuller.

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Hattie BRIGGS

No spouse or marriage relationships are recorded yet.

When a spouse or partner is added, marriage details and children will appear in this section.

Add Life Event

Have another record or photo?
Add a life event, census record, military record, obituary, achievement, or photograph for Hattie BRIGGS.

Life & Records

Photos, life events, and historical records for Hattie BRIGGS.

How to read this timeline
Records about Hattie BRIGGS and family appear alongside historical events from the same years. Each item is labeled so you can quickly tell family records from historical context.

Show:

Use these buttons to focus on the ancestor's own records or the wider historical context.

1859 Birth, Adams, Massachusetts

Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915
Name: Hattie T. Briggs
Gender: Female
baptism/ christening date:
baptism/ christening Place:
Birth Date: 19 May 1859
birthPlace: Adams, Massachusetts
Death Date:
name note:
Race:
father's Name: Russell
father's birthPlace:
father's Age:
mother's Name: Eliza
mother's birthPlace:
mother's Age:
indexing project (batch) number: I02105-4
system origin: Massachusetts-ODM
source Film Number: 1428237
reference number:
source: familysearch.org

Source / record details
Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1925
Researching Your Colonial New England Ancestors

1860 Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts

Russel Briggs, 24
Eliza Briggs, 23
Hattie N. Briggs, 1

Source / record details
1860 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
Exploring the U.S. Census: Your Guide to America’s Data

1861 - February 8 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America are formed, comprising the first six break-away states.

1861 - Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States

1863 - January 1 - President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves.

1863 - October 3 – President Lincoln proclaims a national Thanksgiving day to be celebrated the final Thursday in November in the United States

1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

April 14, 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth at in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the next day. Andrew Johnson becomes President of the United States.

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1869 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes President of the United States

1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President of the United States

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1880 Vernon, Tolland, Connecticut

Name: Hattie Fuller
Residence: Vernon, Tolland, Connecticut
birthdate: 1859
birthPlace: Massachusetts, United States
relationship to head: Daughter
spouse's Name:
spouse's birthPlace:
father's Name: Russell Briggs
father's birthPlace: Massachusetts, United States
mother's Name: Eliza Briggs
mother's birthPlace: Vermont, United States
race or color (expanded): White
ethnicity (standardized): American
Gender: Female
martial status:
age (expanded): 21 years
Occupation: Works In Cabinet Mill
nara Film Number: T9-0109
pAge: 65
page character: D
entry number: 3490
Film Number: 1254109
Household Gender Age
parent Russell Briggs M 44
parent Eliza Briggs F 43
Hattie Fuller F 21
Etta Briggs F 14
Walter Briggs M 12
Maude Fuller F 4
Loren J. Allen M 45

Source / record details
1880 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
Exploring the U.S. Census: Your Guide to America’s Data

1881 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.

1881 - March 4 - James A. Garfield becomes President of the United States

1881 - July 2 - James A. Garfield was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:30 am on Saturday, July 2, 1881. He died in Elberon, New Jersey, two months later on September 19, 1881. The shooting occurred less than four months into his term as president. Charles J. Guiteau was convicted of Garfield's murder and executed by hanging one year after the shooting. Chester Arthur becomes President of the United States.

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - Grover Cleveland becomes President of the United States

1886 - October 28 - Statue of Liberty is Unveiled

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1889 - Benjamin Harrison becomes President of the United States

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1893 - Grover Cleveland becomes President of the United States

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

1897 - William McKinley becomes President of the United States

1898 - April 25 – Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain

1898 - December 10 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Spanish-American War.

1900 Manchester, Hartford, Connecticut

Fuller, Hattie, head, b. May 1859, age 41, widow, mother of 1 child, 0 children living, b. MA,
Parents born: MA, dressmaker
House, Charles D., boarder, b. Oct 1855, age 44, married, number of years married - 11, b. CT,
Parents born: CT, carpenter

Source / record details
1900 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
Exploring the U.S. Census: Your Guide to America’s Data

1901 - King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson invented the world's first disposable razor blade in 1901. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

1901 - William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition in the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, six months into his second term. He was shaking hands with the public when an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, shot him twice in the abdomen. Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.

1902 - July 17 - Willis Haviland Carrier designed the first modern air-conditioning system. (Buffalo, New York, USA)

1903 - The first engine-powered airplane is invented (Wilbur & Orville Wright, United States)

1904 - June 28 - U.S. begins construction of Panama Canal.

1906 - August 22 – The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, was manufactured, revolutionizing the way people listened to music at home.

In 1906, Reginald Fessenden made the first AM radio broadcast on December 24th. This event marked a significant advancement in radio technology, paving the way for the modern broadcasting industry.

1907-1908 - The electric washing machine is invented (Alva J. Fisher, United States)

1908 - First Model-T car is produced by Henry Ford (United States)

1909 - William Howard Taft becomes President of the United States

1912 - April 15 - Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic

1913 - The assembly line is invented (Henry Ford, United States)

The bra is invented (Mary Phelps Jacob, United States)

1913 - Woodrow Wilson becomes President of the United States

1913 - October 31 – The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across the United States, is dedicated

1915 - January 25 - First United States coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call

1917 - March 2 – The enactment of the Jones Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.

1917 - April 6 – WWI: The United States declares war on Germany

1918 - March 19 – The United States Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time

1919 - June 4 – Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification

Death

Name: Hattie M Fuller
Birth Date: 22 May 1856
Age at Death: 63
Death Date: 5 Mar 1920
Death Place: Connecticut
Gender: Female
FHL Film Number: 3127

Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Source / record details
ancestry.com

RECORD HISTORY