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Henry Earle Riggs

b. 1865

Best remembered for compiling a richly detailed family history, this Midwestern researcher turned personal records, memoirs, and public documents into a two-volume genealogy that still draws interest today.

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The Valuation of Public Service Corporation Property

The Valuation of Public Service Corporation Property

by Henry Earle Riggs

About the author

Born in Kansas in 1865, Henry Earle Riggs is identified in library and genealogy records as the author of Our Pioneer Ancestors, a two-volume family history published in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1941 and 1942. The work traces several related family lines, including the Riggs, Earle, Baldridge, Agnew, and Hynes families.

The book stands out for the way it was assembled. Catalog records describe it as being compiled from family Bibles, published genealogies, personal memoirs, and official records such as wills, deeds, marriages, and births. That gives his writing the feel of careful family detective work rather than simple reminiscence.

Available records also place his life from 1865 to 1949, with later memorial and family-tree sources connecting him to Kansas, California, and Michigan. No clearly verified author portrait was available from the sources I could confirm here, so no profile image is included.