Rev. Albert 8 BIGELOW
16314.471 Rev. Albert
8 BIGELOW, son of Samuel
Allen 7 ( Ira 6
, Ezra 5 , David 4, Lt. John 3, Joshua 2, John 1) and Maria
(ALMY) BIGELOW, was born at Stafford,, NY on 11 October 1827. He
married on
18 April 1853 Maria Storrs. She was the daughter of Lucius and Susan
Young
(Caryl) Storrs and born in Buffalo, Erie co, NY 23 December 1828. She
died 07 December
1902 at Williamsburg,, NY (one source says Willimantic, CT). Albert was
a Congregational Minister; Yale Class of 1852. He died 07 June
1892 Harrisburg, PA. (see obit below)
Children of Albert and Maria (Storrs) Bigelow:
16314.4711t Allen
Gilman,
b 14 Mar 1854 Stafford, NY; d 08 Aug 1897; m 30 Oct 1879 Genevieve
Dayton
Boyce;
2 children.
16314.4712 Walter Storrs, b 26 Sept 1857
Williamsburg,, NY; d 21 Feb 1899; m 15 Apr 1884 Harriet Fuller Frost, b
03 Oct 1859, dau of Ethan C. and Fanny M. (Warner) Frost; residents of
Buffalo, NY, where he
was engaged in the publishing business in the firm of Bigelow Brothers;
no
children;
16314.4713t Lucius
Seymour, b 06 Sept 1859
(1861?) Homer,, NY; d _ Sept 1927 Buffalo,, NY;
m
06 June 1888 Sarah Esther Harris; 5 children; (see
below)
Sources:
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol II, pg 500;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America; pg 452-453;
Bigelow Society records.
Note:
Subject: Rachel Allen wife of Ira Bigelow
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 17:01:11 -0500
From: Susan Henderson <
lohenderson@mindspring.com >
I am enjoying your web site. In fact, copying some of the details
for a
family member as I type. My family is descended from
Samuel Allen Bigelow. In fact Allen hasbeen the middle name of male
family members for generations. Wanted you to know that family lore has
it that
Rachel Allen, Samuels mother, was the daughter of the great hero Ethan
Allen.
Have not confirmed it myself. Thought maybe you had run accross this in
your
research.
More:
My mother's maiden name is Bigelow.
Her line is
Samuel Allen Bigelow m. Maria Almy
Reverend Albert Bigelow(1827-1892) m. Maria Storrs (1828-1908)
Lucius Seymour Bigelow (1859-??) m Sarah Esther Harris
(18??-1944)(family
founded Harrisburg,Pa)(Lucius Seymour had a brother, Allen Gilman
Bigelow)
Allen Caryl Bigelow (1894-1985) m Charlotte Cook (1895-1973)(my
grandparents)
My name is Susan Henderson
Rev. Albert Bigelow, was one of the group of ministers, who opposed
Grover Cleveland during his campaign for President. This was the result
of a scandal surrounding Cleveland concerning a child he fathered with
Mariah Haltin. Much of this story is available in Google Books.
Buffalo
Express Obit
THE REV. ALBERT BIGELOW
A Presbyterian Pastor who was also a Poet,
Painter, Musician, and Historian. The Rev. Albert Bigelow, who died at
Harrisburg, Pa., on Monday, June 27th,
and whose familiar face is portrayed here, had the lovely character,
poetic and artistic which was transmitted to his eldest son, the late
Allen Gilman Bigelow. Both
father and son had far more than the usual number of friends in
Buffalo. The
nature of the Rev. Mr. Bigelow's temperament
is shown by the fact that he was
not only a preacher but also a poet, painter,
musician and historian. His musical
ability was such that Dr. Lowell Mason,
who was, perhaps, the best known American
authority on music half a century
ago, urged him in vain to go to Europe
and make music his life work. At 18 he
was chosen leader ot the large choir in the
First Presbyterian Church of this city
and director of the orchestra which took
the place of the organ and was composed
of Thomas Sears, Charles Butler, Lucius
Storrs and William W. Young. Mr.
Bigelow's gift for verse and his fine tenor
voice made him famous at Yale, where he
graduated in 1852.
During his senior year he was director
of the Beethoven Society, of which all the
best, singers of the college were members.
He was also one of the editors of the Yale
Literary Magazine—" Yale Lit.", as it was
familiarly and fondly called—associated
with Daniel C. Gilman, now president of
Johns Hopkins University; Homer B.
Sprague, now president of a North Dakota
college; the Hon. W. W. Crapo of New
Bedford, Ct., and C. C. Bliss of Bennington,
VT.
It was Mr. A. M. Farnham who recognised his
artistic ability and urged him to
try his hand at painting in oil colors, with
a result which surprised Mr. Bigelow
whose estimate of his own ability was
characteristically modest. Four of the
portraits subsequently painted by him are
now owned by the Buffalo Historical Society
and hang in its gallery; they are
the portraits of Judge Samuel Wilkeson
and Judge Joseph C. Masten, Samuel A.
Bigelow and Lucius Storrs. His most
signal success in painting was a portrait
of James Fenimore Cooper, the novelist.
From a daguerreotype ot him, and two or
three paintings of him by well-known artists,
and from what he said he imagined
M Cooper "ought to look like." through
acquaintance with his works, Mr. Bigelow
painted what was accepted by the family
as the best likeness of the novelist.
When the printing house of The Messrs.
Bigelow Brothers, at that time composed
of Albert Bigelow's three sons, Allen Gilman,
Walter Storrs and Lucius Seymour
Bigelow, conceived and carried out the
publication of two volumes of the Buffalo
historical Society's papers, his was the
task, gratuitously performed of editing the
work in the most thorough manner.
These two volumes remain a worthy monument
to Albert Bigelow's ever-modest but
never tiring love for Buffalo. While secretary
of the Buffalo Historical Society he
contributed several important papers
which are among the most valuable in the Society's archives because
of the scrupulous accuracy and untiring zeal that made
them exhaustive and
trustworthy records.
Mr. Bigelow's work
as a pastor was, however,
that to which
the best part of his
life was given. He
had a most delicate
purity of heart and
a most fearless love
of truth—anywhere
and everywhere. His
Christianity was too
broad for sectarianism
even in the earlier
days, and in later life
he hailed with joy the
fast rising spirit of
honest investigation
that welcomes light
from every source,
believing not that the
truth itself is new,
but that man's knowledge
of the truth is
always growing.
Mr. Bigelow spent
the greater part of
his 65 years in or
near Buffalo, his
father moving here
from Stafford, Gene-
County, when he
three years old,
and building the first
brick dwelling on
Niagara Street between
the Square and Black Rock, now
No. 204, which continued to be the family homestead until a few years
ago. In 1853
he married Maria Storrs, a daughter of
Lucius Storrs, and soon after took charge
of his first pastorate—at North Bergen, N.
Y. After serving parishes in Brooklyn,
Homer, Jackson, Mich., and Silver Creek,
an increasing deafness compelled him to
give up pastorial duties, and in 1869 the
family returned to Buffalo. Later he accepted
resident charge of the Congregational
Church at North Evans, a few miles west
of Buffalo, where be remained until attacked
by the malady that, after several
years of manful struggle, overcame him.
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