Edward Elisha 8 BIGELOW





15336.845      Edward Elisha 8 BIGELOW, son of Thomas Sumner 7 ( Elisha 6 , Paul 5, Cornelius 4, Samuel 3, Samuel 2, John1 and Clarissa (JACOBS) BIGELOW, was born at Akron, Summit, OH on 01 July 1841/2. He served in the Civil War and graduated from U. of MI 1867.  He married Ella Ecles on 05 July 1877.  All we know (see below) of her is that she was the daughter of Job and Meli (   ) Ecles.  Edward was a physician and this family resided in MI and MN.  Edward died in Long Beach, Los Angeles, CA 1925.

Children of Edward and Ella (Ecles) Bigelow, born in Owatonna, MN:

15336.8451    Edna Louise, b 19 Dec 1979; d _____ ; m 22 Dec 1911 Hugh M. Fredenberg.

15336.8452     Ella Marion, b 13 Aug 1884; d ______ ; m 01 Sept 1909 Julius H. Huntley.

Sources:
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol II, pg 373-374;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
Correspondence between family descendant and Bigelow Society historian/genealogist and her records. \

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Dr. Edward Elisha Bigelow

     Edward Elisha Bigelow, the oldest physician and surgeon residing in Owatonna, was born in Akron, Ohio, July 1, 1842, his father, Thomas Sumner Bigelow, being a descendant of the Bigelow and Sumner families of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont, emigrating from the latter state to Akron with his parents at the age of 18 years. His mother was Clarissa (nee. Jacobs), daughter of Dr. Jacobs of Elmira, New York. Both families spring from purely English blood.
     His mother, Clarissa, died in 1848, leaving a family of eight children: four boys and four girls. He was the fifth born child of the family.
In 1850 he joined his father who earlier had emigrated to Lake Mills, Wisconsin, There Edward received a common school and academic education and was prepared for college work when the war of the rebellion interrupted. He enlisted in the fall of 1861 with what was known as General Fremont's body guards and went to rendezvous at Milwaukee, from whence the company went to St. Louis and reported to Gen. Fremont. However, he was finally rejected as being unfit for service and returned home. Determined to serve, in July, 1862, he procured a commission to recruit a company of infantry and soon, being joined by an old friend, C. H. Bryant. The two soon secured a full complement of volunteers and organized the company which subsequently became Company D of the Twenty-ninth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, in which he was a sergeant. Bryant became the captain of the company, after completing just three-months’ service.
     From the over exertion of his duties, Edward was prostrated and taken to the post hospital at Helena, Arkansas. Army measles followed and, in turn pneumonia. Then he suffered a relapse of the pneumonia and ended up lying in the hospital at Helena during the months of January, February and March, 1863. Subsequently, he was removed to Memphis Hospital where he was finally discharged from service by a general order such as those extended to all similar cases. He returned to his home in the North under the care of the sanitary board conducted by the ever-to-be-remembered soldiers' friend, Mrs. Governor Harvey of Wisconsin, who had, after the death of the governor, dedicated her service to the caring for the sick and disabled soldiers. Thereafter, in the procuring of sanitary stores and forwarding them to the front, he felt that he had been able to do a fraction of good in the cause.
     In the winter of 1864 and 1865 he taught the village school of Milford, Wisconsin, and in September following, that is 1866. He entered the University of Michigan, from which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine and Surgery in March, 1867. While a student at the university he had been honored by the position of an assistant to the demonstrator of anatomy, professor of anatomy, and professor of gynecology and diseases of women and children. Though there were no paid assistants at the university, as such, except in a few instances, the experience received in that capacity was later of priceless value to the doctor in his private practice enabling him to render better service to his patrons. After leaving the university he immediately began work at the village of Milan, a few miles south of Ann Arbor. As such, he was able to continue in close touch with the university and add knowledge from an association with the teachers of the institution as a member of the Washtenaw County Medical Society where that society read Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge et aland discussed advanced papers and medical practices. At Milan he immediately entered upon a large and lucrative practice and continued to have his old teachers ever ready to render good council when needed.
     During his sojourn in Michigan he met Miss Ella A. Eeles (an English lady) from Waterloo, New York. On July 5, 1877, he was united with her in marriage, and they soon moved to Owatonna, Minnesota. He was actively associated with James A. Goodwin Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and was a charter member at its organization.
     The doctor has served sixteen years upon the Owatonna United States board of pension examining surgeons, which through his instrumentality was established at Owatonna, and is still a member of the board. In 1864 he joined the Christian Church, there not being a church of that denomination in Owatonna; and believing that every person should be identified with some form of a Christian church organization, joined the Methodist Episcopal denomination and in later years, with his family, united with the First Congregational Church. He was also a member of Steele County Medical Society, the Southern Minnesota Medical Society, the Minnesota State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, and was an accredited member of the ninth session of the International Medical Congress held at Washington, D. C., in 1887, from which he received full and voluminous reports of the complete papers read before the congress by the representative members of the medical and surgical profession of the world.
     In early life, the doctor became a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Masonic fra-ternities, many years ago honored by being promoted to the offices of high priest in Chapter 15, Royal Arch Masons, and eminent commander of Cyrine Commandery, No. 9, Knights Templar, at Owatonna. At the age of 68 years was still an active member of the Masonic Orders, and also a member of Osman Temple, Ancient Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at St. Paul, Minnesota.
     Among the papers contributed upon medical topics, he has stood staunchly in favor of advanced sanitation and as early as in 1875 read a paper before the Washtenaw County Medical Society at Manchester, Michigan, in support of what at the time was called his pet theory "that tuberculosis is a contagious disease and that all cases should be isolated and be placed under governmental control in order that its ravages could be brought under subjection," a theory he has always since held and from time to time advocated before medical associations. Different states are now rendering aid in that direction and he still believes it to be the general government's duty to take the matter in hand and give its full force to the end that the disease may be wiped from our country. Dr. Bigelow was always enterprising in doing his full part in the building up of and beautifying the city of Owatonna, and for a time owned and published the Owatonna Daily and Weekly Journal. Extracted and modified from source: Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, et al., History of Rice and Steele Counties, H.C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., Chicago, 1910. pp 1245-47


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