Biography of Barton B. Bigler, St. Augustine, St. Johns County, FL File contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Rayburn (naev@earthlink.net). USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or publication by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ****************************************************************************************** Transcribed from: The History of Florida: Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. III, page 284, 1923. BIGLER D.D, Rev. BARTON B. In Rev. BARTON B. BIGLER, D.D., pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian Church, is found one of the most wholesome and human of philosophers and most courageous ethical teachers that St. Augustine has ever known. The fragrance of his faith, the encouragement to be found in his success and his maintenance of the truth in which he believes and for which he ever has been ready to make personal sacrifices, unite in the making of a career of more than average purpose and usefulness. Doctor BIGLER was born near Angola, Indiana March 13, 1864, and received his early education in the public schools of Angola. After graduating from the high school, he attended the Tri-State College, located at the same place, and subsequently studied theology at Union Seminary, New York, for two years, then becoming a student at McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago. Graduated from that institution in 1891, in the same year he became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Michigan, whence he went to the First Presbyterian Church, Frankfort, Indiana. He has also held the following pastorates: Christ Presbyterian Church, Madison, Wisconsin; Central Presbyterian Church, Des Moines, Iowa, and First Presbyterian Church, Racine, Wisconsin. >From the last-named he was called to the pastorate of the Memorial Presbyterian Church, St. Augustine, in 1913. His life has swept by with settings of increased prosperity and enlarging opportunities for usefulness, and his name is enrolled among those who have deepened and broadened the channels of human brotherhood. Doctor BIGLER is the author of "A Syllabus of United States History", published in 1887, which, at its appearance, made a decidedly favorable impression.