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Bigelow, Robert Payne – Bigler, William

Bigelow, Robert Payne

Zoologist, was born July 10, 1863, in Baldwinsville, N. Y. He received the degree of S. B. from Harvard, and the degree of Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins university. Since 1893 he has been instructor of biology in the Massachusetts institute of technology of Boston; and its librarian since 1895.

In 1897 he became editor of the American Naturalist.

Bigelow, Timothy

soldier, was born Aug. 12, 1739, in Worcester, Mass.

Hearing of the battle of Lexington, he led a company of minutemen to Cambridge.

He was also at Valley Forge, West Point, Monmouth, and Yorktown. After the war Colonel Bigelow had charge of the arsenal at Springfield. He was one of the original grantees of Montpelier and a benefactor of the Leicester, Mass., academy. He died March 31, 1790, in Worcester, Mass.

Bigelow, Timothy

lawyer, legislator, was born April 30, 1767, in Worcester, Mass. He was an active federalist; was elected to the Connecticut legislature in 1790, and served there twenty years, eleven years of the time as speaker of the house. He was also a member of the Hartford convention in 1814.

Bigger, Samuel

lawyer, legislator, jurist, governor, was born about 1800 in Warren county, Ohio. He was a representative in the Indiana state legislature in 1834 and 1835, and afterwards judge of the circuit court. He was governor of Indiana from 1840 to 1843. The Indiana hospital was established by his influence.

He died in 1845 in Fort Wayne, Ind.

Biggs, Benjamin T

farmer, congressman, was born Oct. 1, 1821, in Summit Bridge, Del. In 1847 he turned his attention to farming; was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1852; subsequently took an interest in railroad operations, and was elected director in a Maryland company. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Delaware to the forty-first congress.

Biggs, Marion

farmer, congressman, was born May 2, 1823, in Pike county, Mo. He is a farmer by profession, and was elected sheriff of Monroe county, Mo., in 1852, and re-elected in 1854. He was elected to the California legislature in 1867, and in 1869. He was elected to the fiftieth congress, and was re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a democrat.

Biggs, William Henry

clergyman, was born June 23, 1786, in New Milford, Conn. He was pastor of the First church of New Haven from 1812 to 1822; and from 1822 was Dwight professor of didactic theology at Yale. He died March 10, 1858, in New Haven, Conn.

Bigler, David

Moravian bishop, was born Dec. 26, 1806, in Hagerstown, Mass.

He was a missionary in the West Indies in 1831-36, and then pastor in Philadelphia, in New York, and at Bethlehem, Pa., until made a bishop in 1864. He died July 2, 1875, in Lancaster, Pa.

Bigler, John

lawyer, legislator, governor, was born Jan. 8, 1804, in Cumberland county, Pa. He moved to California in 1849, and was twice speaker of the assembly and governor of California in 1852-56. He died Nov. 30, 1871, in Sacramento, Cal.

Bigler, William

journalist, governor, United States senator, was born December, 1814, in Shermansburg, Pa. In 1841 he was elected to the state convention; was a member of the state senate up to 1847, and part of the time speaker.

In 1851 we was elected governor of Pennsylvania; and subsequently became president of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad company. In 1855 he was elected a senator in congress for six years. died Aug. 9, 1880, in Clearfield, Pa.

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