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Uriah Biggs

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State Representative
Democrat
Surveyor
Van Buren
4
12/06/1841 - 12/04/1842
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Born in Virginia in 1797 and died in Kansas in 1870. In the year 1838, Mr. Biggs came to the territory of Iowa. He had a contract with the United States government for surveying certain public lands of the “Black Hawk" purchase. In 1848 Uriah Biggs moved to Ottumwa, Iowa, a place he had previously laid out, and where had property interest. In 1859 the family moved to Missouri, and four years later to Kansas, settling in Wyandotte, and in 1864 to Lawrence, Kansas. He was an early and prominent settler of the Iowa territory. He served several terms as a member of the territorial legislature. He served as a district judge in Kansas and he was a commissioner of the Des Moines River Improvement.

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State Representative
Democrat
Surveyor
Van Buren
2
11/04/1839 - 11/01/1840
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Uriah Biggs was born in Virginia in 1797 and died in Kansas in 1870. In the year 1838, Mr. Biggs came to the territory of Iowa. He had a contract with the United States government for surveying certain public lands of the “Black Hawk" purchase. In 1848 Uriah Biggs moved to Ottumwa, Iowa, a place he had previously laid out, and where had property interest. In 1859 the family moved to Missouri, and four years later to Kansas, settling in Wyandotte, and in 1864 to Lawrence, Kansas. He was an early and prominent settler of the Iowa territory. He served several terms as a member of the territorial legislature. He served as a district judge in Kansas and he was a commissioner of the Des Moines River Improvement.