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England; his father died while he was a child, and, in 1839, he, with a brother two years older, came to
America, and lived in Onondaga, N. Y., about a year; he then came to Wisconsin, and worked at brickmaking
about seven years in Kenosha; enlisted in Milwaukee, in the fall of 1847, in the 4th U. S.
Infantry, and was in the Mexican war, under Gen. Zach Taylor, about eighteen months; after the close of
the war, he went from Vera Cruz to Florida; about the 1st of June, and remained there till the last of
August, and was then discharged; he then came back to Wisconsin, and June 26, 1849, was married in
Racine Co. (now Kenosha) to Theressa E. Dean, daughter of Jabez Dean, an old soldier of the war of
1812; immediately after marriage, he came to Columbia Co., and put up a frame for a house, where
Portage now stands, but failing to get lumber to inclose it, he became discouraged, and left it; he then.
located on Sec. 12, in what is now the town of Wyocena, and has followed: teaming and farming ever
since (except when in the army), till November, 1879; then exchanged one of his farms for the hotel in
Pardeeville, known as " Diamond Hall," and has kept it since that time; in August, 1864, he enlisted in
the 1st Wis. Heavy Artillery, and was in the service about eleven months, most of the time on the
Potomac. Has six children-Geo. and Charles, living in Wyocena; Arthur; Sarah, now Mrs. John
Brush, of Springvale; Mary, now Mrs. John Hepler, of Pardeeville, and Ella, at home. Has a farm of
160 acres on Sec. 12, in Wyocena.
Note: GEORGE BRIFFETT, hotel-keeper, Pardeeville; born May 31, 1825, in
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