H. P. Bigham

"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. "