Julia Valentine Briggs (maiden name: Dobbs) was born on March 23, 1847, to Charles and Sarah Elizabeth Gordon Dobbs of New York. On October 19, 1865, she married Charles Augustus Briggs. Together they had seven children, five of whom survived beyond infancy: Emilie Grace, born on May 8, 1867, in Berlin in the Kingdom of Prussia; Sara Agnes, born on May 9, 1868, in Berlin, Prussia; Alanson Tuthill, born on November 4, 1870, in New Jersey; Olive Mary, born on August 9, 1873, in New Jersey; and Herbert Wilfrid, born on July 23, 1881, in New Jersey. Together, the family lived first in Berlin in the Kingdom of Prussia for around two years before moving to sections of New Jersey around New York City, where Briggs taught and studied theology. She died on October 17, 1933, in Manhattan in New York City.
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Charles Augustus Briggs Papers, 1841 – 1913, Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York; United States Federal Census 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930; New Jersey State Census, 1915; "Julie V. Briggs," New York, New York, Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948; "Julie Briggs," New York Passenger and Crew Lists (Including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957, accessed through Ancestry.com.
