Background
Briggs, Joseph Emmons was born on March 13, 1869 in Dighton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Albert and Sarah Jane (Simmons) Briggs.
Briggs, Joseph Emmons was born on March 13, 1869 in Dighton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Albert and Sarah Jane (Simmons) Briggs.
Bristol Academy, Taunton, Massachusetts. Doctor of Medicine Boston University, 1890. Post-graduate work University of Vienna.
Began practice at Boston, 1890. Professor surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, 1918, emeritus. Consultant surgeon Massachusetts Memorial Hospital Trustee Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals.
Mason. Trustee Boston University, Massachusetts Memorial Hospital.
Married Carrie A. Moore, September 20, 1893 (died 1900). Married second, Flora A. Toulmin, September 10, 1903.