L. C. (Luella) d/o Capt. Abrahams or Abrahms m Dr. E N. Riggs Belmont Co OH 1874
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HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES p 421
Dr. E. N. Riggs was born in Pennsylvania, September 22, 1846.In 1854 his father sent him to the Southwestern Normal school, where he obtained a good education.At the age of eighteen he comenced reading medicine with Dr. A. L. Hunter.Attended a medical college in New York State for a short time then went to the Cincinnati Medical Institute where he graduated.In 1869 he commenced the practice of his profession in Allegheny City, contginuing there until 1876, then he removed to Powhatan and began the practice of medicine in that village.Whilst in Allegheney he held several high medical positions, was twice chosen by the people as director of the poor, which office he resigned when taken his departure there.On the ninth of April, 1874, he married Miss L. C. Abrahams, (the only daughter of Capt. Abrahams) who was born in Belmont County, October 8, 1850.They have one child, a son.