institution is as yet prepared for such a union.” After his retirement from Radcliffe, he wrote the novel, Men, Women And Colleges, which was published in 1925 by the Houghton Mifflin Company. Personal life In 1883, Briggs was married to Mary Frances De Quedville (b. 1862) of Cambridge. Together, they were the parents of three children: John DeQuedville Briggs (1885–1965), who married Marjorie Scott Winslow (1900–1994), daughter of William Herman Winslow, in 1925. Lucia Russell Briggs (1887–1960), who served as president of Milwaukee-Downer College for thirty years. LeBaron Russell Briggs Jr. (1895–1972), who married Elizabeth Mason. Briggs died on April 24, 1934, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the home of his daughter Lucia. He was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where he had a summer home. Legacy Briggs was also a trustee of Middlesex School, where the LeBaron Briggs House dormitory is named for him, as well as Briggs Hall at Harvard's Cabot House. He received honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, Western Reserve University and Lafayette University. His nautical namesake, the liberty ship LeBaron Russell Briggs, was scuttled with its cargo of nerve gas on August 18, 1970, as the last installment of a project in which the United States disposed of much of its stockpile by dumping it at sea. Notes References External links Brief biography on Bartleby.com Records of the President of Radcliffe College, 1903-1925. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Bronze Sculpture of Briggs, by Frederick Warren Allen, at the Harvard Art Museum. 1855 births 1934 deaths Harvard University faculty Presidents of Radcliffe College Harvard University alumni