John Beach Driggs (December 13, 1852 – September 21, 1914[1]) was a medical doctor and teacher sent to work at the mission station of the Episcopal Church in Northwestern Alaska, at Tig-a-ra (Tikiġaq, in Point Hope, Alaska) in the summer of 1890.
Driggs remained in Point Hope until at least 1910, and he recorded short stories depicting the nature, traditions and legends of the In-u-pash (Inupiat) natives, most likely the Tikiġaġmiut.
His father had been born in the West Indies and most likely had worked the principal part of his life as a planter.
Samuel and his brother Joseph came to the United States about 1870 and settled in western Pennsylvania.
He sent his children, including John, from Cuba to New Haven, Connecticut, with their mother, to be educated.