Lewis 6 BIGELOW

16911.2    Lewis 6 BIGELOW , son of Daniel 5  ( Daniel 4, Daniel 3, Joshua 2, John 1), and Anna (JOHNSON) BIGELOW was born 08 August 1785 at Petersham, Worcester county, MA. He was a lawyer by profession, and practiced in Petersham, serving in the legislature. He married, on 24 February 1805 Harriet Edwards. She died in April 1833, a suicide. He, taking his daughter Caroline, moved to Peoria, IL, where he was not only a lawyer, but a financier and developer, with interests in the ferry system and the infant railroad system. His other daughters joined him in 1835. He died 02 October 1838 at Peoria. His daughter Ellen's lengthy letter to her aunt in Petersham is an excellent description of the transportation (by land and water) of the decade, as well as of rural United States.

Children of Lewis and Harriet (Edwards) Bigelow, all born Petersham, Worcester co, MA:

16911.21     George, b 12 May 1805; not listed as a survivor at his father's death.

16911.22     Ellen, b 12 Oct 1807;d aged 28 mos,as reported in the Columbian Centinel, issue of 17 Mar 1810.

16911.23     Elizabeth, b ca 1809; m 23 Apr 1835 (Petersham) Dr. Leander Harding.

16911.24     Ellen, b ca 1811; m (1) 15 Feb 1836 Moses Patten; (2) 20 Sept 1838 William Frisbee, who died 1845; m (3) 1846 ____ Rankin; she is said to have died ca 1879 at San Francisco, and left issue. William and Ellen (Bigelow) Frisbee had a daughter named Louise who married _____ Ely. She was an ancestor of Thadeus Ely Baer, who married Dorothy Bristol 9 Bigelow.

16911.25     Sarah, b ____ ; m 06 Sept 1838 James C. Armstrong.

16911.26     Caroline L., b ____ ; m 17 Jan 1838 George T. Metcalfe.

Sources:
Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol I page 344;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
early marriage, Peoria, IL;
Who Was Who in America;
Petersham vital records;
early obits from Boston and NY newspapers;
early newspapers Peoria, IL;
Forge: The Bigelow Society Quarterly, vol. 6, p.11;
letter of Ellen Bigelow as quoted in Forge: The Bigelow Society Quarterly, vols 6 and 7.

Modified - 11/23/2007
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