Albert Francis 9 BIGELOW
Children of Albert Francis and Gwladys (Williams) Bigelow: 4 children.
1555C.11331 Albert Smith Bigelow, b 01
May 1906
Brookline, , MA; d 08 Oct 1993 Walpole, MA; m 10 Sept 1931 Sylvia
Weld (1909-2002)
(see obit); 3 daughters;
(see below)
Albert Smith 10 Bigelow
Children:
1. Lisa Barclay Bigelow, b 27 Aug 1932 Cambridge, MA; d
_____
; m 4 times
2. Kate Lenthal Bigelow, b 29 Mar 1935 Cambridge, MA; d
_____ ; m
05 June 1954 Nicholas Benton
3. Mary DeFord Bigelow, b 20 Sept 1946 Boston, MA; d
25 Apr
1947 Hanover, MA
Sources:
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol II, pg
395 child;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
Sibley's Harvard Graduates;
Cambridge vital records;
The Seven Weld Brothers- Google Book
correspondence between Bigelow Society historian/genealogist and
descendants.
e-mail from melissa Burrage...mburrage@channel1.com
Albert Francis was a law
partner
with Theodore Hoague 1908-1914 with the Boston firm of Warren,
Hoague &
Bigelow. Theodore Hoague was father of Inquirer, Mrs. Harland W.
Huston,
31453 W. Hill road, Hartland, WI 53029, 27 July 1997 to Helena
Roth who
forwarded it to genealogist.
On the life of Albert Smith
Bigelow,
who died in Walpole, MA 1993. Albert was commanding officer
to my
friend, (WWII), and he has read a book about the murder of
Albert's first
wife, Josephine Noyes Rotch.
Josephine Noyes Rotch, the daughter of Arthur and Helen (née
Ludington) Rotch, married Albert Bigelow on the 21st of June 1929.
She, however, had resumed her affair with Harry Grew
Crosby(#40058554), a publisher, within two months of their
marriage, and then, on the 10th of December that year she and
Crosby were found dead in an apparent murder suicide.
Published: October 8, 1993 New York Times
Albert Smith Bigelow, a pacifist who tried several times to sail
into a nuclear
testing area near the Marshall Islands in 1958 in a protest
against nuclear
weapons, died on Wednesday at a retirement home in Walpole, Mass.
He was
87.
His family said he had had a long illness.
Mr. Bigelow, who served as a Navy lieutenant commander aboard
destroyer escorts
in the Pacific theater in World War II, became a Quaker and a
follower of
the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi in 1954.
On Feb. 10, 1958, he and three fellow Quakers set sail from San
Pedro, Calif.,
in a 30-foot ketch, the Golden Rule, for Eniwetok Atoll in the
Western Pacific
to try to halt nuclear tests that were to be held there two months
later.
After first being turned back by storms, they eventually reached
Honolulu
but were never able to reach their ultimate destination.
Three attempts to reach Eniwetok were intercepted by Coast Guard
cutters
enforcing a Federal court injunction against entering the testing
grounds.
After the final attempt, the crew was jailed for 60 days.
Mr. Bigelow, a graduate of Harvard University and the
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, began his career as an architect in New York,
helping to design
buildings for the 1939 World's Fair. But he soon left architecture
and became
an artist, frequently painting seascapes and nautical scenes.
After the war he was appointed housing commissioner of
Massachusetts by Gov.
Robert Bradford and helped build low-cost housing for veterans.
But Mr. Bigelow's religious convictions led him to participate in
a 1954
protest of chemical weapons at Fort Dietrich, Md., and later to
take in,
with his wife, two women who had been disfigured by the atomic
bomb that
the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in Aug. 6, 1945.
That experience, he later wrote, "forced me to see that I had no
choice but
to make the commitment to live, as best I could, a life of
nonviolence."
Besides helping to organize and taking part in demonstrations
against nuclear
warfare, Mr. Bigelow was an ardent advocate of civil rights. In
1961, as
a Freedom Rider in the South, he was one of several people who
were badly
beaten by segregationists at a bus stop in Rock Hill, S.C.
He is survived by his wife of 62 years, the former Sylvia Weld;
two daughters,
Lisa Roberts and Kate Benton, both of Manhattan, eight
grandchildren and
eight great-grandchildren.
Bigelow, Albert, b. 1906
Papers, 1956-1961.
Architect, former Navy commander, and Quaker, who sailed the ketch
Golden
Rule into the U.S. atomic bomb test site in the Marshall Islands
in 1958.
(See photo). This act of civil disobedience resulted in the arrest
of Bigelow
and his shipmates and their imprisonment in Honolulu. Bigelow
participated
in other acts of civil disobedience as well.
Scattered correspondence (1956-1961), personal statements,
illustrations,
and drawings, ms. draft and publisher's contract of Bigelow's
book, Voyage
of the Golden Rule (1959), photos, and other papers, chiefly
relating to
the voyage of the ketch Golden Rule to Eniwetok Proving Grounds in
the Marshall
Islands (1958), a protest against nuclear weapons sponsored by the
Committee
for Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons, but also relating
to Bigelow's
other activities including the Mercury Project vigil in Nevada
(1957) and
Alabama freedom rides (1961). Includes scrapbook and ship’s log of
the Golden
Rule, sketches made on board the Golden Rule and in prison in
Hawaii, publicity
releases and clippings, and film clip. Correspondents include
Joseph S. Clark,
Arthur M. Dye, Jr., Christian A. Herter, William R. Huntington,
Beach Langston,
Barbara L. Reynolds, Earle L. Reynolds, and Norman J. Whitney.
Albert Smith was in class of Harvard 1929
Sylvia Weld Bigelow, age 93, beloved wife of Albert Smith Bigelow, died Monday, 2 December 2002 in the Cambridge (MA) Hospital after a short illness. She appeared in original Broadway productions of Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome" (Adapted for the state by Owen and Donald Davis) and Elmer Rice's "American Landscape". In later years, she graduated from the Stamford (CT) Hospital School of Nursing and was active in the religious Society of Friends and League of Womans Voters. She is survived by two daughters, Lisa Bigelow Roberts and Kate 'Kitty" Bigelow Benton both of New York City. Also surviving are eight grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. A memorial service was held Sunday, 15 December 2002 at the First Parish Church at 382 Walnut St., Brookline, Massachusetts
Sylvia was the daughter of Rudolph and Sylvia Caroline (Parsons) Weld. She had at least 2 sisters: Eloise Rodman and Priscilla Aldman Weld......................ROD 2008 "The Seven Weld Brothers"
Published: December 9, 2002
BIGELOW - Sylvia Weld. (Mrs. Albert Smith.) December 2, in
Cambridge, MA.
She is survived by daughters, Lisa Bigelow Roberts, and Kate
(Kitty) Bigelow
Benton, both of NY, eight grandchildren, and nine
great-grandchildren. A
memorial service will be held Sunday, December 15, at 1:00 pm in
The First
Parish Church, 382 Walnut St., Brookline, MA. In lieu of flowers,
contributions
may be sent to The Tobey Hospital, High Street, Wareham, MA 02571.
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