Emily Pomona Edson Briggs () was an American journalist. Briggs wrote under the psudonym Olivia and was one of the first female journalists to achieve a nationwide reputation.[1]
Briggs was born in Burton, Ohio, one of four daughters of blacksmith Robert Edson and Mary Polly Umberfield Edson. The family moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1854, where Robert Edson became successful in real estate. Briggs briefly taught school in Painesville, Ohio.[2]
Around 1854, Briggs married John R. Briggs, Jr., a former Wisconsin state legislator and friend of future President Abraham Lincoln. In August 1854, John Briggs became part owner of the Keokuk Daily Whig newspaper in Keokuk, Iowa, where he reported on the Lincoln–Douglas debates. Active in the Iowa Republican Party, John Briggs was appointed an assistant clerk by Clerk of the United States House of Representatives John Weiss Forney.[2]
Briggs disliked Washington Chronicle
Forney, owner of the Chronicle
http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_item/olivialetters.htm
References
edit- ^ "Emily Pomona Edson Briggs." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2013. Web. 25 Feb. 2013. .
- ^ a b Edward T. James; Janet Wilson James; Paul S. Boyer (1971). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Harvard University Press. pp. 242–3. ISBN 978-0-674-62734-5. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
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