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Bigelow, Anson A

lumberman, was born Nov. 7, 1833, in Easton, N. Y.

The firm of A. A. Bigelow and Co. now own a large area of pine forest near Washburn in Bayfield county, Wis., and have built capacious mills there.

Bigelow, Asa

merchant, was born Jan. 18, 1779, in Marlborough, Conn. He was engaged in a general shipping and commission business in Saugerties, N. Y., in which he was very prosperous. Subsequently he removed to Bristol, N. Y., and continued in the same business. He died Feb. 12, 1850.

Bigelow, Frank Gordon

banker, was born Sept. 28, 1847, in Hartford, N.

Y. This successful business man and financier has been trustee of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company; receiver of the Northern Pacific Railroad company; and is the honored president of the First national bank of Milwaukee, Wis.

Bigelow, Henry Jacob

physician, was born March 11, 1818, in Boston, Mass.

He became professor of surgery in the medical school of Harvard university in 1849; continuing to hold the chair of surgery until 1884. In 1846 he was appointed surgeon to the Massachusetts general hospital, a position which he resigned in 1886. He died Oct. 30, 1890, in Newton Creek, Mass.

Bigelow, Hobert B

statesman. He was governor of Connecticut from 1881 to 1883.

Bigelow, Horace Ransom

lawyer, was born March 13, 1820, in Watervliet, N. Y. He was attorney for the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Co.; and for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway company. He was one of the commissioners in the construction of the county courthouse of St. Paul, and was for many years a director of the First national bank. He died Nov. 14, 1894, in St. Paul, Minn.

Bigelow, Jacob

physician, author, was born Feb. 27, 1787, in Sudbury, Mass.

He was a famous physician of Boston who established Mount Auburn cemetery.

He was the author of History of Mount Auburn; A Brief Exposition of Rational Medicine; Modern Inquiries, classical, professional, anl miscellaneous; Remarks on Classical and Utilitarian Studies; American Medical Botany; and Nature in Disease. He died Jan. 10, 1879, in Boston, Mass.

Bigelow, John

soldier, author, was born in 1854 in New York, and is a son of John Bigelow. He is a United States cavalry officer, and the author of The Principles of Strategy, illustrated chiefly from American campaigns.

Bigelow, John Milton

physician, was born Aug. 22, 1847, in Albany, N. Y.

He has lectured at Albany college since 1869, and has been attending physician to Albany hospital and to St. Peter's hospital for throat and nose diseases; and also to the Old Men's Home.

Bigelow, Jonathan Gordon

soldier, lawyer, was born July 16, 1839, in St. Albans, Maine. He received his education in the St. Albans and Bloomfield academies, and in 1863 graduated from Amherst college. During 1861-65 he was a commissioned officer in the federal army in the civil war. In 1866 he was admitted to the bar of the supreme judicial court of Maine, and since that time has practiced his profession in the District of Columbia.

Bigelow, Lettie Salina

reformer, editor, poet, was born in 1849, in Pelham, Mass. She is the state superintendent of franchise for the Massachusetts Woman's Christian Temperance union; a successful lecturer and editor of Holyoke, Mass.; and the author of a volume of poems.

Bigelow, Poultney

author, was born in 1855, in New York, and is a son of John Bigelow. He is the author of The German Emperor and his Eastern Neighbors; The Borderland of Czar and Kaiser; History of the German Struggle for Liberty; and White Man's Africa.