Mildred 9 BIGELOW
16312.7442 Mildred 9 Bigelow,
dau of Poultney 8
( John 7, Asa 6, David 5, David 4, John 3, Joshua 2, John 1) and Edith
(Jaffray) Bigelow, was born 12 May 1866 at Orange, NJ. She
married first
on 15 December 1906 Newell Tilton, son of Frederick William and Ellen
(Trowbridge) Tilton. Not much known of him but she kept his
name, and known as Olive Tilton Bigelow in art circles. She
married
second in 1927 Herbert Clayborne Pell. She was a painter of many
portraits
especially of dignitaries and other prominent people, Olive Bigelow
1886
- 1980, was born in Mountain Station, New Jersey. Her grandfather, John
Bigelow,
had been a career diplomat, and her husband was Herbert Pell, a foreign
minister
in the Franklin Roosevelt administration, so she was very oriented
towards
international matters. Many of her subjects were part of the War Crimes
Commission
in London in 1944. She also designed posters for the war effort, for
women's
suffrage, and other such. She died in 1980 as stated above. 2 children.
Children of Newell and Mildred (Bigelow) Tilton:
16312.74421 Ellen
Tilton, b 10 Sept 1907; d _____ ; m 1929 Nicholas Holmsen;
16312.74422 Pyrme
Tilton, b 05 Feb 1909; d _____ ; m 1929 John Howland Gibbs Pell;
Sources:
The Bigelow Society, The Bigelow Family Genealogy,Vol II pg.
492 child;.
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
Bigelow Society records from family;
Ask Art Biography.
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