Briggs a key figure in Geneva history

Decatur Daily Democrat:

Moments of silence often last only 15 or 20 seconds, but the one observed on Thursday evening at Geneva for influential banker and civic linchpin James D. Briggs Jr. was lengthier than usual, running at least one minute.

The solemn tribute to Briggs, one of the most veteran financiers in Indiana, came less than one hour after he died, at age 89, in Adams Memorial Hospital.

Briggs led Bank of Geneva for decades and his son, Andrew, is the current bank president.