A. J. Biggers, Calhoun County, AR

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SOURCE: Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
Contributed by Carol Smith.
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Calhoun County, Arkansas - from Goodspeed's History of Arkansas

A. J. Biggers, one of the prominent farmers and stock-raisers of Polk Township has been identified with Calhoun County
since 1865. Soon after his arrival here he was united in marriage to Miss Harriet Joanna Means, a daughter of J. H. Means (see
sketch of T. N. Means); he then bought forty acres of wild land, on which he at once commenced improvements, and to which
he added fifty five acres more. In 1873, this place becoming too small, he sold it and bought his present farm of 325 acres, one
and one-half miles northwest of town, 100 acres of which is under cultivation. Seeing the advantages of stock-raising, he soon
turned his attention in that direction and is now engaged in raising horses, cattle, hogs and sheep; he has nine head of horses,
among which is a fine Morgan and Norman stallion; weight 1,204 pounds, and is sixteen and one-half hands high, which was
always taken the premium wherever shown. His cattle are graded Durham, hogs, Jersey Red, and graded Cotswold, sheep. To
the union of Mr. and Mrs. Biggers were born nine children, via: May E., Thomas A., James A., Henrietta J., Bob M., Frank
M., Margaret, Anna and Lula E. A. J., his wife and M. E. Biggers belong to the Christian Church. Mr. Biggers belongs to the
Farmers' Union and is an active and enterprising citizen, at all times working for the good of worthy measures. He was born in
Tennessee, in 1841, the sixth of a family of seven children born to Alexander and Margaret (McBride) Biggers, natives of
Tennessee, in which State the father followed the occupation of farming until 1855, when the family moved to Missouri, settling
in Jasper County. Here they lived until the spring of 1856, when the father went to Tennessee on business, and died on the
steamboat. The mother died in Sharp County, Arkansas, in 1884. Our subject was reared on the farm, remaining at home until
he was sixteen years, when, upon the death of his father, he began doing for himself, engaging in teaming from Carthage to
points north in Missouri. He followed this occupation until the outbreak of the war, when he enlisted in Capt. Pott's company
from Carthage, Missouri; was soon attached to Talbot's regiment and sent to Northwest Arkansas, where he participated in the
battle of Pea Ridge, also at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, where he was captured; he was soon exchanged and was in service in
South Arkansas, but in no more battles. At the close of the war he took up his residence in Arkansas, and has ever since been
a worthy and respected citizen of Calhoun County.