{"id":91,"date":"2008-11-02T15:19:02","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T20:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncmartincounty.wordpress.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2008-11-02T15:19:02","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T20:19:02","slug":"obituary-judge-asa-biggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/obituary-judge-asa-biggs\/","title":{"rendered":"BIGGS, Asa (d. 1878)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York Times<br \/>\n7 Mar 1878<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning about 11 o&#8217;clock Mr. Asa Biggs, of the firm of K. Biggs &amp; Col, commision merchantes, of Norfolk, Va., died suddenly from rehumatism of the heart. \u00a0The deceased was 68 years of age, and was a native of North Carolina. \u00a0In antebellum days he had a national reputation as a jurist and politiican. \u00a0Previous to his departure from North Carolina he had been in public life for fully 35 years, having been a member of the Convention of 1835, which framed a State Constitution. \u00a0He represented his district in Congress during the administration of President Polk. \u00a0Subsequently he was elected by the Legislature to the United States Senate, but resigned his seat in that body to accept the appointment for the District of North Carolina under Mr. Buchanan&#8217;s Administration. \u00a0After the breaking out of the late war he recevied the appointment from the Confederate Government of District Judge for the same district. \u00a0He removed to Norfolk in 1869, becoming a partner with his brother in the house of K. Biggs &amp; Co. \u00a0He also engaged in the practice of law, being associated with the Hon. W.N.H. Smith, who is the present Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. \u00a0Judge Biggs was an earnest Christian, and was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church. \u00a0He leaves a large family.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times 7 Mar 1878 Yesterday morning about 11 o&#8217;clock Mr. Asa Biggs, of the firm of K. Biggs &amp; Col, commision merchantes, of Norfolk, Va., died suddenly from rehumatism of the heart. \u00a0The deceased was 68 years of age, and was a native of North Carolina. \u00a0In antebellum days he had a national &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/obituary-judge-asa-biggs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BIGGS, Asa (d. 1878)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22485],"tags":[6858,4863],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individualdeaths","tag-biggs","tag-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}