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| | Sidney Osborne Bigney |
 | | SIDNEY OSBORNE BIGNEY is the son of James and Sarah Jane (Black) Bigney and a grandson of Peter Bigney, and was born in Wentworth, Cumberland county, Nova Scotia, November 4, 1854. |
 | | The founder of his mother's family in America was William Black, who was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1727, emigrated to Haddersfield, England, and came thence in 1774 to Nova Scotia, where he settled on a farm near the town of Amherst, which is still occupied by some of his descendants. |
 | | Bigney is a cousin of Senator William R. Black, of Taunton, Mass., a captain and veteran of the War of the Rebellion, and of Charles Allan Black, M. D., of Amherst, Nova Scotia, who was born in Salem, Cumberland county, Nova Scotia, August 23, 1844. |
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