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Among the family of Alexander and Susannah (Bigelow) Thayer were:
15591.91 Alexander Wheelock Thayer, b 22 Oct 1817 Natick; d 15 July 1897; writer, and U.S. consul at Trieste; he is best-known for his 3-volume Life of Beethoven, still considered an authoritative work on the subject.
15591.92 Henry Thayer, M.D., a prominent physician in his lifetime.
Sources:
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol I, pg 266;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
A. W. Thayer, Life of Beethoven.
From: Natick, MA Annual Town Report on properties
37. The Harriet Beecher Stowe House (2 Pleasant Street)
In 1778, Deacon William Bigelow, miller, came to South Natick and bought
the mills on the river. Between the years 1783 and 1784, he bought approx-
imately 50 acres of additional land on both sides of the river and the
road from John Ephraim, an Indian planter, and Nathaniel Battelle. When
he died in 1813, he willed the premises to Isaac and Col. Abraham Bigelow
in equal shares, and Isaac conveyed his share to Abraham in 1814. Dr. Alexander
Thayer, "having acquired a Homestead right in this land", built the house
in 1816. Subsequently, this right was assigned to Col. Abraham Bigelow and Chester Adams.
Susan Bigelow, daughter of William, married Dr. Thayer in 1817, and
Mehitable, another daughter of William, married Chester Adams in 1821. Upon
the doctor's death in 1824, his two sons turned the title to Mehitable Adams.
Mehitable Adams willed the property back to the Thayer children in 1878,
and it became the property of Henry Thayer in 1897. His brother, A. W. Thayer,
was U. S. Consul at Trieste and a noted music critic and author of a book
about the life of Beethoven. Dr. C. F. Morse bought the house in 1899 and
sold it to Frank H. Pfeiffer in 1902. He later sold it to Dr. Charles E.
Hills in 1911. Dr. Hills remodeled the house; he took out the big chimneys,
raised the foundations, and built a modern doctor's office with waiting
room in the northwest end of the house. He remained the local family physician
until his death, and the house remained in the family until Mrs. Hill's
death. Dr. Paul A. LaMothe bought the house in 1952 and has been the local
physician since. The house received its name from its most famous visitor,
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Calvin Ellis Stowe, son of Samuel and Hepsibah Bigelow Stowe was born in 1802.
His father died ) in 1808, at age 36, and he and his mother came to live
in South Natick with the Bigelow relatives, she being a daughter of William
Bigelow. Calvin married his second wife, Harriet Beecher,
in 1836. Although they did not / have a home in South Natick, they often
visited at this house. Mrs. Stowe's "Old Town Folks" is a fictionalization
of Calvin's father's reminiscences about people and life in the area.
(page 99)
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