{"id":21915,"date":"1999-03-02T09:34:36","date_gmt":"1999-03-02T14:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=21915"},"modified":"2018-03-02T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T14:37:00","slug":"1999-john-mary-briscoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/mda-hall-of-fame\/1999\/03\/02\/1999-john-mary-briscoe\/","title":{"rendered":"1999: John & Mary Briscoe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Credit: Executive Office of the Governor<\/p><\/div>\n

Family Name:\u00a0<\/strong>The Briscoe Family<\/p>\n

John Dawkins Briscoe who was known as \u201cJack,\u201d was born and raised on his family\u2019s farm \u201cStonesby,\u201d which has been owned by his family since the 1700s. The then 800 acre tract was located at Island Creek on the Patuxent River. After serving in World War II in the 10th<\/sup> Armored Division, Jack returned to the farm and, with his father and brother, grew tobacco, corn, wheat, soybeans, and hay. They also raised cattle, dairy cows, hogs, sheep and chickens. Jack was a member of the Maryland Farm Bureau and the Soil Conservation Service. He was a lifelong active communicant of Christ Episcopal Church, having served on the vestry several times. Mary taught Home Economics for over 30 years. She served as President of Delta Kappa Gamma, an international society recognizing key women educators. Mary was also a Master Gardener and President of the Calvert Garden Club. She served on the Judges Council of the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland and started the Young Gardener\u2019s Club at the Calverton School. Additionally, Mary was a member of the Christ Church Altar Guild, the Vestry, the new Rector Search Committee, and also served on the Architectural Review Board for Calvert County. Jack and Mary also participated in the founding of The Calverton School. Their son, Tommy, now continues the family\u2019s farming tradition, additionally renting other farms in the county.<\/p>\n

Ceremony Date: <\/strong>2\/3\/2000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Family Name:\u00a0The Briscoe Family John Dawkins Briscoe who was known as \u201cJack,\u201d was born and raised on his family\u2019s farm \u201cStonesby,\u201d which has been owned by his family since the 1700s. The then 800 acre tract was located at Island Creek on the Patuxent River. After serving in World War II in the 10th Armored  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mda-hall-of-fame"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21918,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915\/revisions\/21918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}