Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Biggs, Judge Dalton 1928
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The Payette Independent 10-11-1928
The Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, October 11, 1928
 
JUDGE DALTON BIGGS IS CALLED BY DEATH
 
DISTINGUISHED EASTERN OREGON JURIST PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME IN ONTARIO FROM AN 
ATTACH OF PNEUMONIA FOLLOWING SINUS TROUBLE
 
Judge Dalton Biggs of the Ninth district, which includes Malheur, Grant and 
Harney counties, died at his home here late Saturday afternoon.
 
Judge Biggs had been ill here for several weeks, suffering from a sinus 
infection, but was believed recovering until Thursday, when pneumonia set in 
and he began to fall rapidly.  He is survived by his widow and seven children, 
Lucile, James, William, Hugh, Annabelle, Paul and Eugene, all of Ontario.  He 
was born in Louisiana, Mo., 53 years ago, son of the Rev. and Mrs. J. D. 
Biggs.  He attended McCurie college at Louisiana, following which he read law 
in the office of Champ Clark, former speaker of the house.  After being 
admitted to the bar of Missouri he came west in 1900 and became associated 
with his brother, J. W. Biggs, of Burns, where he practiced until the firm 
opened an office here in Ontario in 1906.  In 1910 he was elected judge of the 
ninth district, and received the nomination of both parties at the primaries 
last spring, for a fourth term.
 
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon and were attended by prominent 
men from Portland and other parts of Oregon and by a large delegation of 
Payette friends.  The funeral was one of the largest ever witnessed in this 
part of the country and was a fitting testimonial to the universal esteem in 
which Judge Biggs was held.
 
The community as well as the state of Oregon mourns with the family of Judge 
Biggs.  He was well known here and was highly respected and loved by all for 
his noble christian character, modest dignity and pleasing personality.  The 
editor of the Independent especially lost a good friend whose wise counsel and 
high ideals were always an inspiration.
 
Besides his widow and children he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. W. J. Weese 
and Mrs. C. W. Wood, of Ontario; five brothers, J. W and M. Allen Biggs, of 
Burns, C. S. Biggs, of Waverly, Ala., and James T. Biggs of Odessa, Mo.

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