BIO:  H. P. BIGHAM, Cumberland Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 397

H. P. BIGHAM, merchant, P.O. Green Mount, was born in Freedom Township, Adams 
County, Penn., December 12, 1840, a son of James and Agnes (McGaughy) Bigham, 
also natives of Adams County, and of Scotch-Irish descent.  His father was a 
farmer, who died in 1854.  The parents had eight children, six of whom grew to 
maturity.  Our subject, who is next to the youngest child, obtained a fair 
education in the district schools, and remained at home until he was seventeen 
years of age, when he began employment as a clerk in a dry goods store at 
Gettysburg.  Subsequently he went to Springfield, O., where he was engaged as a 
salesman in a large dry goods establishment, returning to his native State in 
the year 1862, and in 1863 enlisted in Company B, Twenty-first Regiment 
Pennsylvania Cavalry, of which he was chosen orderly sergeant.  He was honorably 
discharged in 1864, at the expiration of his term of enlistment; he returned to 
Adams County, Penn., and established his present business.  The same year of his 
return he was appointed postmaster of Green Mount, which office he continues to 
hold, though a Republican.  In 1864 Mr. Bigham was married to Elizabeth, 
daughter of James McCright, and of Scotch-Irish origin, and to them have been 
born seven children, three of whom are now living:  Margaret Eliza, Mary Arnold 
and Jennie Belle.  Mr. and Mrs. Bigham are members of the Presbyterian Church of 
Lower Marsh Creek.