"A. J. Biggers, one of the prominent farmers and stock raisers of Polk Township has been identified with Calhoun County since 1865. Soon after his arrival here he was united in marriage to Miss Harriet Joanna Means, a daughter of J. H. Means (see sketch of T. N. Means); he then bought forty acres of wild land, on which he added fifty five acres more. In 1873, this place becoming too small, he sold it and bought his present farm of 325 acres, one and one-half miles northwest of town, 100 acres of which is under cultivation. Seeing the advantages of stock raising, he soon turned his attention in that direction, and is now engaged in raising horses, cattle, hogs, and sheep; he has nine head of horses, among which is a fine Morgan and Norman stallion; weight 1,204 pounds, and is sixteen and one-half hands high, which has always taken the premium whenever shown. His cattle are graded Durham, hogs, Jersey Red, and graded Cotswold, sheep. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Biggers were born nine children, viz; May E., Thomas A., James A., Henrietta J., Bob M., Frank M., Margaret, Anna and Lula E. A. J. and his wife and M. E. Biggers belong to the Christian Church. Mr. Biggers belongs to the Farmer's Union, and is an active and enterprising citizen, at all times working for the good of worthy measures. He was born in Tennessee in 1841, the sixth of a family of seven children born to Alexander and Margaret (McBride) Biggers, natives of Tennessee, in which State the father followed the occupation of farming until 1855, when the family moved to Missouri, settling in Jasper County. Here they lived until the spring of 1856, when the father went to Tennessee on business, and died on the steamboat. The mother died in Sharp County, Ark., in 1884. Our subject was reared on the farm, remaining at home until he was sixteen years, when, upon the death of his father, he began doing for himself, engagin in teaming from Carthage to points north in Missouri. He followed this occupation until the outbreak of the war, when he enlisted in Capt. Pott's company from Carthage, Mo.; was soon attached to Talbot's regiment, and sent to Northwest Arkansas, where he participated in the battle of Pea Risge, also at Pleasant Hill, La., where he wascaptured; he was soon exchanged and was in service in South Arkansas, but in no more battles. At the close of the war he took up his residence in Arkansas, and has ever since been a worthy and respected citizen of Calhoun County." (Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas - Goodspeed Publishing Company - Chicago, Nashville and St. Louis - 1890)