Dalton Biggs

The Payette Independent
Thursday, October 11, 1928

JUDGE DALTON BIGGS IS CALLED BY DEATH

DISTINGUISHED EASTERN OREGON JURIST PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME IN ONTARIO FROM AN ATTACH OF PNEUMONIA FOLLOWING SINUS TROUBLE

Judge Dalton Biggs of the Ninth district, which includes Malheur, Grant and Harney counties, died at his home here late Saturday afternoon.

Judge Biggs had been ill here for several weeks, suffering from a sinus infection, but was believed recovering until Thursday, when pneumonia set in and he began to fall rapidly. He is survived by his widow and seven children, Lucile, James, William, Hugh, Annabelle, Paul and Eugene, all of Ontario. He was born in Louisiana, Mo., 53 years ago, son of the Rev. and Mrs. J. D. Biggs. He attended McCurie college at Louisiana, following which he read law in the office of Champ Clark, former speaker of the house. After being admitted to the bar of Missouri he came west in 1900 and became associated with his brother, J. W. Biggs, of Burns, where he practiced until the firm opened an office here in Ontario in 1906. In 1910 he was elected judge of the ninth district, and received the nomination of both parties at the primaries last spring, for a fourth term.

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon and were attended by prominent men from Portland and other parts of Oregon and by a large delegation of Payette friends. The funeral was one of the largest ever witnessed in this part of the country and was a fitting testimonial to the universal esteem in which Judge Biggs was held.

The community as well as the state of Oregon mourns with the family of Judge Biggs. He was well known here and was highly respected and loved by all for his noble christian character, modest dignity and pleasing personality. The editor of the Independent especially lost a good friend whose wise counsel and high ideals were always an inspiration.

Besides his widow and children he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. W. J. Weese and Mrs. C. W. Wood, of Ontario; five brothers, J. W and M. Allen Biggs, of Burns, C. S. Biggs, of Waverly, Ala., and James T. Biggs of Odessa, Mo.