 He was honorably discharged in St. Paul in August 1864, and he got married in St. Anthony, now East Minneapolis, in September 1864.He and his wife then came and settled in Kingston.When the Civil War ended and Ephraim A. Briggs was mustered out in New York, he got married on November 16, 1866, to Helen F. Hale, a native of Maine and they moved to Kingston.