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C. Biggers, planter and stock raiser of Bird Township, was born in Randolph County, Ark., in 1845, the fifth in a family of seven. His parents were natives of Tennessee, and came to Randolph County in an early day, the father dying when our subject was young, the mother still surviving, in Baxter County, Ark. The subject of this sketch was raised on the farm, receiving a very limited education, and in 1864, at Pocahontas, enlisted in McCray’s brigade, Crammond’s regiment, for one year. At the battle of Pilot Knob he received a gun-shot wound, which prevented further service, and he returned to Jackson County, Ark., where, the same year, he married Elizabeth (Ridley) Conditt, widow of John A. Conditt. He then rented land, commenced farming, and in 1877 bought eighty acres of timber-land, which he has improved and added to, until he now owns 160 acres, 100 under cultivation, averaging about fifty acres a year in cotton, which is the principal product. He also raises some stock. They have a family of six children: Sarah A. (now Mrs. Tinsley, of Bird Township), Samuel E., James Henry, Thomas Calvin, Richard Franklin and William Richard. Mr. Biggers is a Democrat, and has been a member of the school board, taking an active interest in school work. He has seen a vast change in Jackson County, and has done his share toward opening it up and developing it. Mr. Biggers has made what he has by his own individual efforts, and takes an interest in everything for the welfare of the county.