Santa Clara Biography
John Gregg Briggs
Born in Arkansas, December 3. 1858, and came with his parents to California in 1861. On arrival the family proceeded to Marysville, where they resided until 1873, when J. W. Briggs, the father of our subject, purchased the property on which they now reside. This, one of the finest orchards in Santa Clara county, contains about ten thousand fruit trees in all, there being some three thousand pear, two thousand plum, fourteen hundred cherry, fifteen hundred apple, seven hundred peach, and the balance apricot trees. No pains has been spared by J. G. Briggs, who manages for his father, in conducting this orchard, while he includes in his cultivation the rarest varieties of blackberries, raspberries and strawberries. There are altogether one hundred and twenty acres on the farm, twenty of which are devoted to pasturage, and the remainder to fruit culture.
History of Santa Clara County, California,: San Francisco, Cal.: Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers, 1881
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, October, 2007 Page 562
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