Bigelow, Anson A – Bigler, John
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, 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.
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
journalist, author, was born in 1817 in New York. He is a prominent New York journalist, at one time United States minister to France, and in 1875 was elected secretary of the state of New York. He is the author of Life of Benjamin Franklin; Life of William Cullen Bryant; Life of Samuel Tilden; Jamaica in 1850; Les Etats Unis d'Amerique en 1863; Some Recollections of Antoine Pierre Berryer; France and Hereditary Monarchy; Wit and Wisdom of the Haytiens; Molinos the Quietist; France and the Confederate Navy; an International Episode; and The Mystery of Sleep. He has edited complete editions of the works of Franklin and Tilden.
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, Lewis
congressman, author, was born in 1783 in Petersham, Mass. He was a representative in congress from his native state from 1821 to 1823; and was the author of the Digest of the First Twelve Volumes of Massachusetts Reports. He died Oct. 3, 1838, in Peoria, Ill.
Bigelow, Melville Madison
lawyer, author, poet, was born Aug. 2, 1846, in Eaton Rapids, Mich. He is a lawyer and law lecturer of Boston, and the author of The Law of Bills; English Procedure in the Norman Period; The Law of Fraud; Elements of Equity; Elements of the Law of Torts; Placita Anglo- Normannica: Law Cases from William I. to Richard I.; Law of Wills, Notes and Cheques; The Law of Fraud on its Civil Side; The Law of Estoppel and its Application to Practice; and Leading Cases in the Law of Torts. He has also edited the 8th edition of Story's Conflict of Laws, and published a volume of poems entitled Rhymes of a Barrister.
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.
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, Asa
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Feb. 4, 1811, in Williamstown, N. C. In 1835 he was elected a member of the constitutional convention of that state; in 1840, 1842, and 1844 was elected to the state legislature; and was chosen a member of the twenty-ninth congress. In 1854 he went a second time into the state senate; and was elected a senator in congress in 1854 for six years. In 1858 he became judge of the United States district court of North Carolina. He died March 6, 1878, in Norfolk, Va.
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.