Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher
Family Group Record
Gov. William Bigler and Maria Jane Reed
Husband Gov. William Bigler 1 2 3 4 5
Born: 13 Jan 1813 or 1 Jan 1814 - Shermansburg, Cumberland Co, PA 3 6 7
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Died: 9 Aug 1880 8
Buried:
Father: Jacob Bigler ( - ) 3 9
Mother: Susan Dock ( - ) 3 9
Marriage: 23 Mar 1836 8 10
• Additional Image: William Bigler.
• Additional Image: Hon. William Bigler.
• Biographical Sketch: William C. Armor, Lives of the Governors of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: James K. Simon, 1873), Pg 413.
To read this biographical sketch of his life and career, click here.
• Biographical Sketch: Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887).
To read this brief biographical sketch of his life and career, click here.
Wife Maria Jane Reed 5 8 10 11 12
Born: - Clearfield Co, PA
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Died:
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Father: Alexander Bowman Reed (1786- ) 5 10 12 13 14
Mother: Rachel Read (1792-1875) 5 15
Children
1 M Reed Bigler 11
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2 M John W. Bigler 11
Born:
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3 M William D. Bigler 11
Born:
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4 M Edmund A. Bigler 11 16
AKA: Edward A. Bigler 4
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Spouse: Bertha Wright ( - ) 4 16
5 M Harry F. Bigler 11
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Died: Aft 1911
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General Notes: Husband - Gov. William Bigler
He and his wife had five sons; three were still living in 1873.
Sources
1
Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 709.
2
Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 337, 402.
3
William C. Armor, Lives of the Governors of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: James K. Simon, 1873), Pg 413.
4
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 110.
5
Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 9.
6
William H. Egle, An Illustrated History of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, PA: De Witt C. Goodrich & Co., 1876), Pg 255
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7
Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 337.
8
Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 339.
9
William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 480.
10
William C. Armor, Lives of the Governors of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: James K. Simon, 1873), Pg 415.
11
Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 84.
12
Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 402.
13
Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 83.
14
Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 903.
15
Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 615.
16
Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 550.