Background
Riggs, Alfred Longley was born on December 6, 1837 in Lacquiparle, Minnesota, United States. Son of Review Stephen Return (Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws) and Mary Ann (Longley) R.
Riggs, Alfred Longley was born on December 6, 1837 in Lacquiparle, Minnesota, United States. Son of Review Stephen Return (Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws) and Mary Ann (Longley) R.
Bachelor of Arts, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, 1858, Master of Arts, 1861. Bachelor of Divinity, Chicago Theological Seminary, 1862. (Doctor of Divinity, Yankton College, South Dakot, 1889).
Ordained Congleton ministry, 1862. Pastor Lockport, Illinois, 1862-1867, Footville, Wisconsin, 1867-1868, Woodstock, Illinois, 1868-1870. Missionary Dakota Indians, Santee, Nebraska, under American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1870-1883, and same, under American Missionary Association, since 1883.
Also principal Santee Normal Training school and editor paper in Dakota language and in England language Trustee Yankton College.
Married Mary Buel Hatch, June 9, 1863.