BIO: Guy Henry BIGLEY, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 27.
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GUY HENRY BIGLEY
Spruce Creek, Pa.

Merchant:  Guy Henry Bigley was born at Shirleysburg, Pa., May 9, 1878.  He 
began his early schooling at Hill Valley, where the family resided.  A son of 
James A. Bigley, who was a butcher for eight years at Tyrone, Pa., owned his 
place of business, and died in 1910 at the age of fifty-two years.  His wife 
was Ellen Dell, a daughter of Henry Dell, who resided at Hill Valley, 
Huntingdon County, Pa.  He died in 1897, aged thirty-four years.  Guy Henry 
Bigley also attended the Spruce Creek schools and Juniata College.  He has 
been in the butchering business at Spruce Creek, and in 1897 established 
himself in the mercantile business and has since followed this business.  Has 
been on school board of Spruce Creek for seven years, served on the election 
board, and attends the Presbyterian church.  Belongs to the Masonic 
fraternity, Tyrone; a Shriner, Jaffa Temple, Altoona, Pa.; Williamsport 
Consistory, I.O.O.F., No. 187, Tyrone; Jr. O.U.A.M., No. 42, Tyrone.  Has two 
sisters, Maude, married to F. R. McGlinsey, Juniata, an engineer; Dora, 
married to Leonard Dell, Anderson, Indiana, a carpenter.  One brother 
deceased, Ira, three years of age.  Guy Henry Bigley was married to Blanche 
Keefer, a daughter of John and Mary Keefer, of Birmingham, Pa.  They have two 
sons, Harold, finished Spruce Creek schools, Tyrone high school, a senior at 
Dickinson College; Wilbur, at home, at school.  One daughter, Mary E.; 
finished Spruce Creek schools, graduated from Tyrone High School, also 
Indiana State Normal, now teaching for the second year at Tyrone Junior High.  
Taught two years at Blair Four, Blair County, Pa.