Earl Bigham, M.D., occupying offices Nos. 304 to 306, Widdicomb building, Grand Rapids, Mich., is a native of Scotch Bush, Montgomery county, N. Y., was born December 24, 1857, and is the youngest of the five children born to John and Mary A. (Travis) Bigham, who were natives also of the Empire state and of Scotch, descent, but both now deceased. John Bigham was a mechanic of rare talents during his life time and died in 1875, at the age of fifty-two years; his widow survived until March 14, 1897, when she died at the ripe age of seventy-six, greatly respected in the community in which she has long lived. The children born to these parents were named, in order of birth, Sarah E., now the wife of Daniel Shute, a farmer a Westville, Mich.; Marietta, widow of Alfred Peck, and a resident of Ithaca, N. Y.; Ella E., widow of Robert Jeffers, and living in Amsterdam, N. Y.; Anna, who died in infancy, and Earl, the subject of this memoir. Dr. Earl Bigham was educated preliminarily in the common schools of his native county, and then entered the high school in Adrian, Mich., After nearly a two years’ course in this school, he engaged in teaching for about eight years, most of the time in he began the practical study of medicine, although he had previously familiarized himself with anatomy, physic and chemistry during his pedagogic career, and in 1883 entered the university of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he remained one year, and then entered the Rush Medical college at Chicago, from which he graduated in the spring of 1885. For eight years thereafter he practiced in various places in Michigan, and then settled in Grand Rapids. In 1892 he went to New York and took a course in the Post-graduate college of that city, and after passing two additional months in the polyclinic took a degree at the Long Island college of Medicine the same year, and then returned to Grand Rapids, where he has ever since been actively engaged in a very satisfactory practice. The doctor is a member of the Grand Rapids Academy of Medicine, the Michigan State Medical society, and the American Medical association, and has been treasurer of the Grand Rapids academy for the past three years. Of the close orders, he is a member of the F. & A. M. blue lodge, the I. O. O. F., I. O. F., the Maccabees, the Woodmen of the World, and the Royal Arcanum, and for the Woodmen and the Foresters he is the examining physician. In politics he is a republican. Dr. Bigham was most happily joined in wedlock, in Montcalm county, Mich., September 9, 1884, with Miss Vena Buckrell, a native of the dominion but for many years resident of Montcalm county, Mich., where the father was a highly respected mechanic, but recently died. Mrs. Bigham was graduated from high school at Stanton, Mich., is a lady of refinement, and mingles with the best society of Grand Rapids. The doctor has been very successful professionally and stands in high repute with his fellow practitioners, as well as the public, being recognized as one of the most skillful physicians and surgeons in the Valley city.