City: Memphis
BIGGS, Albert W., lawyer; born Trenton, Tenn., Sept. 8, 1871; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Zach and Julia Elizabeth (Raines) BIGGS; father’s occupation, physician and merchant; paternal grandparents Luke and Marina (Bennett) BIGGS, maternal grandparents E.W. and Elizabeth (Latta) RAINES; educated Trenton, Tenn., Peabody High School and Vanderbilt University; graduated from latter with B.L. degree June, 1892, married Margaret PHARR, June 4, 1903; member DeSoto lodge, A.F. & A.M., Chickasaw Guards Club, Country Club, and Business Men’s Club, Democrat; member of St. John’s M.E. Church, South, Memphis, Tenn.; admitted to bar at Trenton, Tenn., Sept., 1892; moved to Memphis, Tenn., Sept., 1903 and was member of the firm of Carroll, McKellar, Bullington & Biggs until Sept., 1905; became assistant general solicitor for Y. & M. V. R. R. Co., resigned that position Jan., 1907, to engage in general practice of law; became general attorney, and later president of Memphis (Tenn.) R.R. Terminal Co.; he now represents I.C., Y. & M. V.R.R. Co.; former counsel for Bishop E.E. Hoss and others in matter involving right of bishops and M.E. Church, South, in Vanderbilt University in 1906, and is now one of the counsel for bishops and church in case involving ownership of Vanderbilt University; special counsel for the State of Illinois in prosecution of officials of I.C.R.R. indicted for conspiracy in connection with car repair frauds, also counsel for State of Tennessee in suit involving boundary controversy with State of Arkansas (State of Tenn. vs. Muncie Pulp Co., 119 Tenn. 47); member of law firm Fitzhugh & Biggs, Memphis, Tenn.
