John Biggs

BORN IN MANCHESTER, ENGLAND. HE CAME TO THE UNITED STATES AT THE AGE OF 18 AND WORKED IN PHILADEPHIA FOR TEN YEARS. HE THEN MOVED TO OQUAWKA, ILL, AND LIVED THERE UNTIL 1843 WHEN HE MOVED TO THIS TOWNSHIP AND BOUGHT A SITE ON SOUTH HENDERSON CREEK IN 1844, AND BUILT A FLOUR MILL. WHEN THE C.B.& O RAILROAD WAS BUILT IN 1854, THEY NAMED THE TOWN BIGGSVILLE IN HIS HONOR.