EDWARD S. BIGLER

EDWARD S. BIGLER, a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, was born December 29, 1840. He is the son of Samuel and Susannah (Kislig) Bigler, natives of Switzerland. He was reared and trained to agricultural pursuits in his native county, and received his education in the common schools. At the age of twenty-two years he came to Iowa, settling in Poweshiek County, where he remained until 1879; he then came to Shelby County, locating on section 27, Greeley Township, on a farm of forty acres of unimproved land; here he erected a temporary dwelling in which he spent the summer and a part of the fall of 1879; the same autumn he purchased an adjoining forty acres of improved land and removed to this new place. In the fall of 1880 Mr. Bigler made another purchase of 120 acres of wild land adjoining the former purchase; here he has made many valuable improvements in the way of erecting buildings, and all the surroundings bespeak the thrift and prosperity of the owner. He now owns 240 acres of finely improved land, with about six acres of grove. Mr. Bigler is a live, energetic man, devoting himself to general agricultural pursuits and the raising of live-stock. Beginning life without any financial support, by industry and thrift he has gained an enviable position in the community. Politically he is a Republican, and at the present time is acting as justice of the peace. Mr. Bigler was married March 28, 1875, to Miss M. E. Grant, daughter of Henry and Ellen (Hoggarty) Grant, natives of Scotland and Ireland respectively. Mr. Bigler was born in Portage County, Ohio, February 23, 1851. They are the parents of five children-Effie V., Minnie I., Ivin E., John Leonard and Sarah Cecelia. They are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and are among Shelby County's respected citizens.

Source: 1889 Biographical History of Shelby County, Iowa, pp. 504. Transcribed by Marthann Kohl-Fuhs.

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