Daniel Dutton Biggs

    Daniel Dutton Biggs was born in this township January 27, 1836, and is the youngest of the eleven children of Josiah and Mahala Biggs. Josiah Biggs was one of the founders of the county, and a prominent citizen; our subject received his education in the first school of this county, a log building on the land of Dr. Daniel Dutton Hall, after whom our subject was christened.

    Mr. Biggs was married September 29, 1870, to Miss Ruth E. McIntosh, a native of this township, daughter of J. H. and Elizabeth McIntosh. This union was blessed with five children -Nellie, Charles H. (deceased) March 13, 1882), Lewis (deceased, March 3, 1882), an infant (deceased, unnamed) and Clara.

    Mr. Biggs is a Republican, and gave his first Presidential vote for Lincoln in 1860. He is an enterprising man, and a leading farmer of this county. In 1875, he built his present residence, one of the finest in the township.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.