Frederick Fremont 9 BIGELOW
Child of Frederick and Winifred (Perry) Bigelow:
15133.25431 Roger Perry, b 07 July 1906 Island Falls, ME; d living 1987; m 04 July 1930 Mary Elizabeth Handlin (she d 23 May 1980 Fort Myers, FL); 2 children: including Frederick F. Bigelow II, who wrote the Forge article below.
Sources:
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol II, pg 300 child;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America; page 401 child; #4311
correspondence with descendant of Frederick.
Forge: The Bigelow Society Quarterly; Vol 16, No 4, pg 72-73;
Oct 1987; (see below)
From Frederick F. Bigelow II of Fort Meyers, FL, a letter as follows:
09 July 1987 Dear Patricia Bigelow:
Recently, while going through some of my Dad's old photos
and papers, I came across a program and attendance ribbon for the 1887 Bigelow
reunion, held 02 June 1887. I thought they might be used in the 1987
reunion or in Forge.
I am enclosing copies of the ribbon and program and a
picture of my grandfather, Dr. Frederick Fremont Bigelow, who attended
the reunion at the age of 29.He was a physician in Worcester, MA and Island
Falls, ME. He is #4311 in Howe's Bigelow genealogy. His lineage is
(Charles , Solomon , Andrew ,.Charles , Joseph , John , Samuel , John)
He was born Boylston, MA 4 Feb 1858; married 21 Aug 1884 Mary Ella Perry,
born in Sherman, ME 20 Apr 1860. Mary died in childbirth 1890.
Frederick then married Mary Ella's niece on 2 June 1893, Winifred S. Perry,
born 9 Dec 1870; died 17 Mar 1937.
Frederick graduated Harvard College in the same class
as Theodore Roosevelt. They were both on the boxing and revolver teams,
and after graduation corresponded and remained friends until Roosevelt's
death in 1919.
Frederick graduated at Jefferson Medical College (Philadelphia)
in 1883. He instructed at Harvard Medical College, at Houlton Hospital
in Maine, and Jackson Memorial in Miami, FL. He took post graduate
studies at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Mayo Clinic. He would instruct one
course while studying an additional course.
He was chairman of the Board of Health the entire time
he lived in Maine. During the Spanish-American War in 1898, he was asked
by Roosevelt to serve in Cuba and did so for six weeks.
He was a reserve Colonel during World War I, and served as head of the Examining
Board in Maine. He was a caring and sensitive man, and was very much
disturbed by the fact that, as part of his job of examining and classifying
boys as to whether they were fit for military service, some of these boys
were dying overseas. He served as selectman several times, and was
a state senator in Maine in 1916 and 1917.
During his 37 years of being a physician and country
doctor, he was very proud of the fact that of the many babies he delivered,
he never lost a mother. It is ironic that his first wife died in childbirth
in the charge of another doctor. His usual fee for delivering a baby was
$10. and a house call was $1.00.
Frederick Fremont Bigelow died 18 Sept 1920. He was a
beloved member of his community, as evidenced by the funeral procession,
which was nearly a mile long. Some people came on foot.
Thanks to grandson Frederick F. Bigelow II for this new 1987 information.............................
rodbigelow@netzero.net 
