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Bowness Briggs 1903 - 1962

Bowness Briggs was born on February 26, 1903, and died at age 59 years old in August 1962. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Bowness Briggs.
Bowness Briggs
February 26, 1903
August 1962
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  • 02/26
    1903

    Birthday

    February 26, 1903
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  • 08/dd
    1962

    Death

    August 1962
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    Bowness Briggs lived 14 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 59.
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In 1903, in the year that Bowness Briggs was born, the book The Souls of Black Folk, written by W. E. B. Du Bois, was published. Containing several essays on the African-American experience in America, much of the book was based on Du Bois' own life. The book was one of the very early works in the science of sociology.
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In 1924, at the age of 21 years old, Bowness was alive when in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.
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