16352.3441 Edward Fuller 9 BIGELOW,
son
of William Sherman 8
(Jonathan 7, James 6, Jonathan 5,Asa 4, Lieutenant John 3, Joshua 2,John 1) , and Mary
Jane
(FULLER) BIGELOW, was born at Colchester, New London co, CT
on
14 January 1860.
He married Mary Augusta PELTON ( Howe gives her name as Felton) of
Portland, CT, on 02 July 1882. Mary was born 01 July 1853
Portland, CT,
and died 14 May 1921 Greenwich, CT. Edward was a writer and
editor as mentioned in his obituary
(see below),
as
Edward died 13 July 1938 at Old Greenwich, CT. 4 children?, but
data on
only 2, only 3 below mentioned in obituary.(see note)
Children of Edward and Mary Augusta (PELTON) BIGELOW:
16352.34411 Nellie Pelton, b 12 Mar 1883 Portland, CT; d _____ ;
16352.34412 Woodbridge Fuller, b 02 Sept 1885 Portland, CT; d 02 May 1965 (aged 79) ; m 21 June 1905 Emily Clement Hendrie (1886- 1968 (aged 82)) m in Stamford, CT 3 children (see below)
16352.34413 Pearl Agnes, b _____
Portland, CT; d
___before 1938 ;
16352.34414 ???, b _____ Portland, CT; d
_____ ;
Sources:
Bigelow Family Genealogy Volume. II page.507;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America, page 462;
Colchester town historian;
New note 2022:
I am knowledgeable about Edward F. Bigelow (1860-1938). In fact, I
have just finished a play with him in it.
Frank Potter < bewhouchoose@gmail.com >
Dubuque
More from Frank 2022:
I have just completed (April 2022) a play entitled "Henry David
Thoreau and the Cairn at Walden Pond."
Synopsis
The year is 1903. In the opening scene, a professor, Dr. Edward F.
Bigelow, is giving a lecture on Thoreau to visiting parents at the
Mackenzie School for Boys, which is located on the Hudson River
above New York City. Near the end of his lecture, the professor
says that a cairn (a pile of stones to honor a person or event)
was built on Walden Pond to commemorate the deceased Thoreau. A
woman in the audience, Mrs. Goan, raises her hand and says that it
was her mother who was from Iowa and was a friend of Emerson and
Bronson Alcott, who started the cairn with Alcott. The
surprised professor and she agree that when she returns home she
will send the professor a letter describing the event.
When the professor starts reading the letter, we watch the
reenactment that occurred thirty-one years earlier in 1872. Mrs.
Mary Newbury Adams had a six-week break in May and June from her
traveling to women’s empowerment gatherings on the East Coast and
visiting relatives in the Boston area. Her relatives are her
husband’s uncle and his son plus her friends Emerson and Alcott in
Concord.
I have additional info on Bigelow plus a museum curator is writing
a biography on him.
I did research at the Middlebury, CT Library in 2001, where
I
found
this Biography.........................ROD
Illustrated Popular Biography of CT, 1891; page 301:
EDWARD F. BIGELOW, PORTLAND: Editor and
Publisher.
Edward Fuller Bigelow, editor and
proprietor
of the Middlesex County Record, the Observer, and
the Colchester
Advocate, has demonstrated that new enterprises in newspaper
fields
in Connecticut need not of necessity prove unfruitful. In addition
to
the
three papers which he controls and manages, he has a large
printing and
job
office at Portland that is meeting with gratifying success. The
energy
shown
by Mr. Bigelow in his work has entitled him to the success that
has
crowned his way. He was the pioneer in newspaper enterprises in
Portland. Associated with him was the late William A. Chapman,
who,
like the subject of this sketch, possessed the instincts of the
born
newspaper man. The Observer, which is one of Mr. Bigelow's
ideas, is the only paper of the character issued, being devoted
especially to natural history. It has met with remarkable success,
many
scientific people, naturalists, and microscopists in particular
being
interested in it. The Colchester Advocate is also a
popular
publication, and has a successful patronage. Mr. Bigelow is a
member of
the board of education; and is connected with the Episcopal church
in
Portland. In politics he is a republican. He belongs to the
Ancient
Order of United Workmen, the Odd Fellows
lodge, and the Order of United American Mechanics. He was born at
Colchester,
January 14, 1860, and was educated at Bacon Academy. From the age
of
sixteen
until twenty-six he was engaged in teaching, principally in
Colchester
and
Portland. He has a wife and three children. The former was Miss
Mary A.
Pelton
of Portland prior to her marriage with Mr . Bigelow.
Note:
From: Eric Sullivan < Oldcards2@aol.com
>
Hello Rod,
I am researching a man named Edward Fuller Bigelow
(1860-1938),
he lived in CT most of his life. He was born in
Colchester,
CT
and died in Old Greenwich, CT. I am trying to track down any
living
descendents, in the hopes of finding out more information about
Bigelow
and
his writings, he was a teacher/author/naturalist. This is in
conjunction
for a book I am writing on a contemporary ornithologist that knew
Bigelow.
I just found your site and it is quite overwhelming, lots of
Bigelows.
I am hoping you may be able to help in my search.
16352.34412
Woodbridge Fuller 10 Bigelow, b
02 Sept 1885 Portland, CT; d 02 May 1965 (aged 79) ; m 21 June
1905 Emily Clement
Hendrie in Stamford, CT ( b 27 Feb 1886 Stamford, CT; dau of
Charles W.
and Lucy Clement (Dean) Hendrie) Emily died 02 Nov 1968 (aged 82)
Children of Woodbridge and Emily (Hendrie) Bigelow:
16352.344121 Doris Clement, b 31 Oct 1908 New
York City; d 28 Aug 1949 (aged 40) Old Greenwich, CT;
16352.344122 Sherman Dean, 13 Oct 1914 White
Plains, NY; d _____ ; m 27 Nov 1940 Katherine Florian Amick
(b 17
Feb 1918); 2 children: Robert Woodbridge and Jonathan Dean Bigelow
(FTM)
16352.344123 Elizabeth Goodman, b 28 July 1916
White
Plains; d 1964 (aged 47–48); m 17 Sept 1938 William Stanwood
Perry; 2 children:
Doris Dean and William Stanwood Perry, jr (FTM)
rodbigelow@netzero.net
