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Bigelow, Edgar Alton

educator, farmer, business man, legislator, was born March 8, 1863, in Zumbrota, Minn.

After receiving his education he taught school for several years. He has filled numerous public offices of trust in his native county, and has been president of the Zumbrota Farmers' Mercantile and Elevator company since its inception. In 1896 he was elected republican representative to the Minnesota state legislature; and in 1897 was elected president of the Minnesota Farmers' Elevator association.

BIGELOW, MRS. EDITH EVELYN, author, was born in 1861 in New York.

She is the wife of P. Bigelow, and the author of Diplomatic Disenchantments, a novel.

BIGELOW, ERASTUS BRIGHAM, manufacturer, was born April 2, 1814, in West Boylston, Mass. He was a noted New England inventor of carpet looms, and the author of The Tariff Question considered in regard to the Policy of England and the Interest of the United States; and The Tariff Policy of England and the United States Contrasted. He died Dec. 6, 1879, in Boston, Mass.