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Cutter Clarence H. [Male] b. 8 AUG 1830
he served in Civil War, res. Washington, D.C.
grad Harvard 1855; m 21 May 1863 Sarah Fairweather; was librarian at Boston Athenaeum
He was a tailor and they resided in Boston, Charlestown and Medford, MA living in Medford only one year. She died in Charlestown 10 June 1883 and he there on 19 February 1886.
He had served in the Civil War: Co. H, 29th MA Infantry
He was a Civil Engineer and Supt. of Public Works, Hononlulu, HI; no children.
lived in Sherborn where James was a prominent citizen. During the gold excitement, he started for California, but died in Panama 07 April 1850 of a climatical disease during a wait of 40 days for passage to California. In 1888, his widow was living in Blackstone, MA.
the daughter of Henry Partridge, a well known manufacturer of farming implements. Anna Maria was born at Medway, MA 09 June 1814
James was a druggist and married Sarah Evans Barnes on 17 June 1879. Sarah was the daughter of Albert and Sara Ann (Slocum) Barnes and was born on 20 September 1860 at Greenville, RI. This family resided in Blackstone, MA where he was in business.
He was in the mercantile business, but on account of ill health this family moved to National City, CA where he died on 26 November 1884. She died after 1888.
Miss Dix was well-known as a reformer and philanthropist, devoted to the cause of better treatment of the insane, the criminal, the disabled and the poor. About 1820 she established a school for girls in Boston and served as its head during the ensuing 15 years. She became interested in conditions in almshouses and prisons in 1841 after visiting such institutions in Massachusetts. Subsequently, she set about securing legislation for their improvement. Through her activities, institutions for the insane and destitute were founded in 20 states and in Canada. Her efforts also resulted in drastic reforms in prison and almshouse conditions in European countries. During the American Civil War she served with the Union army as superintendent of women nurses. "She championed the causes of prison inmates, the mentally ill, and the destitute. Horrified by the conditions provided for the mentally ill in Massachusetts, Dix successfully petitioned the state government for improvements in 1843. She was directly responsible for building or enlarging 32 mental hospitals in North America, Europe, and Japan."
Her writings include The Garland of Flora (1829) and Prisons and Prison Discipline (1845).Also see biography of Dorothea L. Dix, such as Stranger and Traveler, by Dorothy Clarke Wilson.
he was a sailor and drowned off the coast of Africa; unmarried.
He was a Lieutenant in Capt. Jos. Sargent's 6th Co. during the Revolution
He served in the Revolution
He bought land from his father in Quabbin, now called Greenwich, on 5 Jun 1764. In 1785 he was in Goshen. He died in Cummington, MA 19 Oct 1807. His wife Mary died there 15 Apr 1825, aged 78 years. He drew up a will 30 Jun 1806, and mentions daughters Prudence BATES, Mary KINGMAN, Hannah Bigelow, Ruhamah Bigelow, Polly Bigelow, Betsy Bigelow, Lydia Bigelow; wife Mary; sons John, William, and Aaron. Aaron was appointed guardian of Betsy and Lydia, they being under 14 years of age.
1790 census: MA-Hampshire-Cummington-John Bigelow: 2-3-6-0-0.
Much of the information comes from a pension application of his stepson Bartlett BETTS, who explained that from the age of 2 or 3 he, Bartlett, used the sire-name Bigalow, and under that name served in the Revolutionary War. After the war, he was advised that he should for legal reasons resume the name BETTS, and did so. About this time the family moved from Pownal, VT to Sandy Hook, Washington co, NY. Then in the summer of 1790 Bartlett traveled to New York City, and on his return at an unspecified date found "my mother had died, the family was moving to Clinton county, and the house in great turmoil. At this time, I lost my discharge papers."
The family was enumerated on the 1790 census of New York at Sandy Hook, and certainly soon after that the family appeared at Peru, NY. But the youngest son allegedly was born 1793, leaving some doubt as to the accuracy of Bartlett's statement, unless Nathan remarried; Mrs. BETTS must surely have been in 1793 rather old to bear a child, for her other children were born in the 1760's and 1770's. The early records of New York show nothing, and we know only that by 1800 Nathan and his wife were deceased, and they left at least 3 sons, and 3 or 4 daughters. We know nothing of the daughters.
Bartlett BETTS, the stepson, owned land in Pownal, VT and in Peru, NY. He married and had a large family; his widow Anna lived to a great age and died in Flint, MI. She also applied for a pension through her husband's military service.
1790 census: NY-Washington-Kingsbury-Nathan Bigelow: 2-1-3-0-0
born 5 Mar 1774 at Goshen, Hampshire county, MA. At the age of twenty he left his home in Cummington, MA, and moved to Salem, NY, where he taught school for three years. In 1797 he married Lydia Benedict, daughter of Lewis and Jemima (Newman) Benedict. Later they moved to Broome, Schoharie County, NY, where they lived for 15 years, and where seven of their children were born. In 1815 John and Lydia packed their household goods and eight children into two Conestoga wagons. With three horses and two oxen they headed west.
Stopping briefly at Buffalo, they loaded their entire outfit onto a boat--wagons, beasts, freight, and humans, and sailed for Ohio. They landed at Cleveland, which was at that time a very small village on Lake Erie. They lived for a year at what is now the corner of East Fourth and Euclid Avenue in the heart of Cleveland. They had a small plot of land which they farmed while looking for a place to make their permanent home. They occupied a log house already standing, which was later taken apart and moved to Richfield when they relocated to the land that John bought by paying off both the rightful owner and the occupant.
John was elected the first clerk of Richfield township, Summit county, which was formed in 1816, an office he held for many years. John's original log house also served over the years as church, schoolhouse, town hall, social hall, and occasionally as jail. In 1830 John built a large house, three stories high, with 14 rooms, eight fireplaces, and four staircases. His initials, J.B., are carved above the door. The third floor was originally used for spinning, weaving, and cheese-curing. While the property is no longer in Bigelow hands, it is now remodeled and in good condition, though the profile is somewhat altered and the front chimneys removed.
John was a great advocate of freeing the slaves in the south. In his house one fireplace in the basement hides an entrance into a small room which is said to have been a hiding place for runaway slaves, and this was a station of the Underground Railroad, in hiding fugitives for their escape into Canada and freedom. Tradition says that a secret tunnel led from the Bigelow home to the next hiding place, but the present owner of the house has never found any evidence of its existence. Since John died twenty years before the Civil War, this help to the blacks probably was carried on by his family. Lydia, mother of 10, grandmother of 49, would never have allowed a fugitive, whether black or white, to go away hungry.
We have a handwritten record that says John died in 1842 and Lydia in 1863. Howe's Bigelow genealogy varies in claiming John died in 1838 and Lydia in 1866. No headstone remains to identify in which cemetery they are buried. In addition to her own family, Lydia raised the three surviving children of her deceased daughter Elsy. Lydia frequently went to Cleveland and back by horse. One day her horse threw Lydia, crushing one leg so badly that amputation was necessary. She went through the operation without any anaesthesia, but the folded man-size handkerchief which she held clenched in her teeth was chewed to bits at the end of the ordeal. As soon as the stump of her leg healed, she placed it on the seat of a chair and soon resumed her household activities using the chair as a walker. The old chair that had been Lydia's walker is still owned by the family (1986).
born 1777, presumably in Cummington, Hampshire county, MA. With his brother John, he early left home and moved to NY. There he married, circa 1805, Susanna Benedict, born 31 Mar 1798 at South Salem, Schoharie, NY. She was a daughter of Lewis and Jemima (Newman) Benedict. They lived in Salem, then in Sidney, Delaware county, NY, also Unadilla, Otsego county, NY, until the 1840's, when they removed to WI, and settled in Sun Valley, Green county. Susanna died 4 Aug 1840, and David on 31 Aug 1846, Sun Valley, WI.
He served in the War of 1812 as a Lieutenant, following which he moved to the south. There he married Susannah Wilson. In 1850 they were living in Montgomery county, NC, where he spent the major portion of his life. We have no death date for either William or Susannah, but Howe's Bigelow genealogy states she died in Missouri, having followed one of her sons there after William's death.
(of Stouffer Foods)
As a young man, he lived a few years in Huron county, OH where he married (1) Charlotte Hodgman about 1854. About 1859 they moved to Wakeman, Wood, OH where the last 7 of their children were born. Charlotte died in 1877 at Wakeman and John employed a housekeeper to help raise his young family and he later married this lady, Ella Carter, and had one son by her. John was in the lumber business for most of his life and died in May 1914 in Wood county.
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