Jacob Bigler b. 1846

BIGLER, LUKE

Posted By: Volunteer - Rich Lowe
Date: 10/1/2001 at 09:28:26

JACOB BIGLER came to Kansas in February, 1871, and after a short stay in Osage County, located on a farm in Butler County. Cultivated his farm a few years, then rented it and did mason work in Butler, Chase and Greenwood Counties until 1879, then returned to his farm, and in the spring of 1882 moved to Toronto, where he now lives. He was born in York County, Penn., October 10, 1846, son of Abraham and Sarah Ann Bigler. Lived in his native county until he came to Kansas in 1871. He was married in El Dorado, Butler County, October 21, 1879, to Anna E. Luke, daughter of David D. and Mary J. Luke. She is a native of Missouri, was educated at Keosauqua, Iowa, and taught one term in the same school when only fifteen years of age. She now carries on a millinery store in Toronto. Their only child, Ira Stanford Bigler, was born August 6, 1880.
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Source:
William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
WOODSON COUNTY, Part 7
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http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/books/cutler/woodson/woo
 

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