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Bigelow Marcellus Higgins [Male] b. 21 MAR 1849 Peru, Clinton Co, NY - d. 25 FEB 1912 Spokane, WA
at one time a deputy sheriff, owned a tavern and with brother, Charles, had banking interests in Spokane. He and Charles came west as carpenters with the railroad.
He and his father were early Kansas Pioneers. 7 children.
A family reunion was held at Detroit Lakes, MN during the first week of August 1976?. The gathering made its headquarters on Lake Melissa at a spacious cottage owned by Walter Bigelow, son of Nelson and Margaret (Bell) Bigelow, before his death in 1971. In 1976 the cottage was owned by Walter's daughter and husband, Jean and Jerry Waldera.
Nelson and Margaret had seven children who grew up on the family farm in Woodson co., KS. the six remaining brothers and sister, their children and grandchildren, and the in-laws, came to the reunion, making a total of 48 present out of a possible 65. the ages ranged from four months up to over seventy years.
Three members of the 10th generation had prepared beautiful memory books which were full of family history and autobiographies they had gathered from various members of the family.
They moved in 1905 to Hiattsville, Bourbon county, KS. They lived only a short time in Kansas and in 1906, relocated to the Seattle area in Washington state. Sciota died 03 October 1930 in Sequim, Clallam co, WA. No further info except 2 children
John Jay was a ship's carpenter, engineer, inventor, and in 1895 was in the shoe business; 1 child died in infancy. John Jay died 01 Mar 1897.
John Jay BIGELOW was for almost thirty years identified with mercantile and other business interests in Burlington, VT. His father, Erastus, was a sturdy farmer, who was a native of Ausable, NY. Erastus married Lavinia RANN, of Poultney, VT, a woman of rare ability and accomplishments. Her father was Joseph RANN, who came over with Lafayette and was a commissioned officer in the War of 1812, and died in Poultney.
John Jay attended the district schools in his native town, and after reaching the years of maturity learned the ship's carpenter's trade. He later became an engineer, but did not follow this occupation long. For many years he was in the government employ on Lake Champlain, and assisted in the construction of the breakwaters in the Burlington harbor. He was very much interested in boats, and owned at various times several crafts. He made a study of navigation and vessels, and possessed wonderful mechanical ingenuity. He built a model from the works of an old clock which would propel a vessel through the canals without destroying the banks with swells. This piece of mechanism he perfected and sent the model to the patent office in Washington, DC, where it was examined and pronounced the best invention of the kind ever exhibited to the government officials, but, it being so similar to another in the patent office, he could not secure a patent; however, they claimed its superiority over the other model. This greatly discouraged Mr. Bigelow, and he let the matter drop.
One of his characteristics was accuracy in everything he undertook; he would ferret out the most complicated and intricate pieces of machinery until he thoroughly mastered his undertaking. If he planned a piece of work about his home, he would study its feasibility before he carried it into execution, and his reputation for correctness was so well known that he was often sought by others for advise and counsel.
For many years Mr. Bigelow was associated with E. S. Adsit under the firm name of Adsit & Bigelow. In January, 1895, he became associated in the shoe business with C. N. Mosley, the style of the firm being Mosley & Bigelow. He took no active part in this firm, as he knew Mr. Mosley to be a thorough business man, and would properly guard their interests.
Mr. Bigelow never sought public favors as a politician. His mind was devoted to his business and his domestic circl, though he affiliated with the Democratic party. He was a member of the Lake Champlain Yacht Club and the Algonquin Club.
February 23, 1858, he was united in marriage with Marion S. BEDELL, daughter of Levi and Sophia (CURTIS) BEDELL, to whom one child was born, which died in infancy. The life of John Jay BIGELOW was a useful one. He was regarded by his business associates as a man of honor and high integrity, and his word was as good as his bond. Though not a man who sought out new friends, he enjoyed the esteem of those who knew him, but he was always a friend to those less favored with this world's goods than himself, charitable, liberal-hearted, broad-minded, and his sterling worth was more justly realized after he was called from earth, March 1, 1897. Mrs. Bigelow died March 1, 1901.
Anson was listed as a trustee Aug 7, 1844 of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Ausable Forks (also known as United Methodist Church)
Bigelow Mountain (see link) in Essex co, NY is named for Artis. His farm was at the base of this mountain and he owned most of the land on the north side. It is not much of a mountain, but very pretty in the fall. It is northeast from Mt. Poko-Moonshine, which is 5 miles south of Keeseville, NY. On some maps, and referred by some as Willsboro Mt.
Nathan was a banker and windmill manufacturer and died 0l January 1884 at Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, MI. Elizabeth had died there on 06 December 1883 about a month prior. Both are buried at Mt. Hope cemetery
was president of Bank of Ausable Forks; 1929-1935.
a professional educator in Denver Colorado 1997
He was a farmer in the area of Chesterfield, Essex co, NY and served in the Civil War. He married on 14 November 1870 Martha Edden ANDREWS at Keeseville. She was the daughter of Cyrus and Lydia (ST. JOHN) ANDREWS and was born at Chesterfield on 18 October 1851. Wesley died at Chesterfield on 16 October 1922 and she in 1930 also at Chesterfield. Wesley was in the Civil War: Company D, 7th New York; Post 484 GAR. (see below) They are both buried in the Port Douglas cemetery near Keeseville. Marriage certificate and scraps from wedding dress in Bigelow Family Bible.
was Chief Engineer of the "Sagamore", a boat on Lake George, and the "Ticonderoga" on Lake Champlain. Ralph died 1966;
The Ticonderoga was built in 1906 at Shelburne, VT. It completed 43 seasons of operation in 1953, and in 1955 the last of the paddle boats was transported to the Shelburne Museum. There she was restored to pristine condition.
A new generation of travelers wearing goggles and clutching Blue Books were raising dust along the roads to the ferry landings. Clearly steam and gasoline had to mix. In 1925 the iron-hulled Chateaugay, laid up for several years at Shelburne Harbor for want of business, was shorn of part of her stateroom hall and cabins fore and aft to make room for cars. The Ticonderoga abandoned the Westport-St. Albans run to join the Chateaugay on the shuttle between Burlington and Port Kent. Older travelers will recall driving over the perilously narrow gangplanks of the Ticonderoga, having the air let out of their tires or deckhands stand on the running boards so that their high-bodied vehicles would not strike the ceiling of the forward promenade deck; having the gas temporarily drained out of their tanks and their cars jockeyed about between the stanchions and backed up as far as the paddleshaft on either side of the engine room. In the course of her daily run to the train connection at Montcalm Landing even the proud Vermont III, famished for through-passengers, took on cars at Plattsburgh and Burlington.
There were a few days of glory for one of the steamers during the flood of 1927 when Vermont rivers wrought almost total havoc on railroad and highway bridges. The Chateaugay was the only link between northern Vermont and New York. For two weeks her boilers were never given a chance to cool as she plowed through swollen waters mined with floating trees, barns and dead cows. Loaded to the guards with beef, cement, lumber, mail and Red Cross supplies, she had no room, according to Captain John Montgomery, "to put a chicken on her anywhere."
kept house for brothers at family farm; would flash lights to greet "Ticonderoga" ferry on Lake Champlain
not married res Keeseville, NY; Operated family farm at Port Douglas, NY; bought property and boat-house on Lake Champlain at Port Douglas; World War I-PFC Army Enginneers-France; buried in Port Douglas cemetery.
- Keeseville Baptist Church; Excellent photographer; unmarried;. worked at Prescott Bros.- Keeseville
he was Town Mayor of Athens, NY
They lived a number of years in the vicinity of Essex and Chesterfield, but before 1900 moved to CO and Charles died on 04 November 1900 at Salida, CO. We have no information considering his wife, but since Charles' remains are buried in Essex, it is presumed that Fannie also died there. We fail to find a marker, however.
He was a windmill manufacturer. founder and vice-president of Kalamazoo National Bank
He was a professor.
He was a methodist minister.
Daniel was a landscape painter and became associated with G.P.A. Healy and Associates who founded the Chicago Academy of Design. They resided in Peru, NY and later, (1858), Chicago. He died in Chicago 14 July 1910, age 87. There is a stone in the New Schuyler Falls cemetery on Felton Road, that lists Charlotte Barnes Bigelow 1844-1940, "buried in Chicago". The stone that Charlotte is inscribed also has "Melvin Allen Barnes and Phebe Edgerton". This same Schuyler Falls cemetery has the headstone of Daniel's parents. Legend: {Nathan Bigelow; died May 16, 1860 ; age 67. Clarinda F Barker; his wife; died June 20, 1874; age 78}
He was one of the pioneers of art in the West. He came to Chicago when the dialect of art was almost an unknown tongue in this section of the country, save for the few who had learned to speak it on occasional voyages to Europe, when such a voyage was an event in the life of a man long to be treasured up and talked about. He was without question, one of the most picturesque figures in the art world of this country, noted not only for his age but also for the long lasting vitality and freshness of mind and heart and mind with which he was endowed.
So far back do the earlier associations of Chicago's late veteran painter go that they may be said to have mingled with the twilight of the dawn of art in America. He was born in Peru, Clinton, NY in 1823 of Quacker descent, and through his mother Abigail Folger was related to Benjamin FRANKLIN. His father fought in the War of 1812, and later proud of his son's talent, placed him with the sculptor Ashel POWERS, a cousin of Hiram POWERS. Mr. BIGELOW said that he owed his delicacy of coloring and treatment to this artist's influence. During his pre-Chicago days he was associated with the Hudson School of Art and the art of Casselier, Gifford, Shattuck, and the Hart Brothers. The influnce of that school clung to him in all his subsequent work.
At 35 Bigelow decided he wanted to come west. Arriving in Chicago in 1858, he took a studio in the Crosby Opera House, in Washington street, between Dearborn and State, which was then the leading theater of the city. During the immediately subsequent period of his career, Bigelow was associated with the historic group of artists led by G.P.A. Healy, and of which J.H. Drury and Mrs. L.H. St John were distinguished members. In association with them, organized the Academy of Design, which later became the Art Institute of Chicago. He was one of the small group of artists who, as early as 1867, in spite of the barrenness of the site, had the hardihood to organize an academy of design, which since then has flowered in the handsome institution in grant Park and has proved to be the mother of art in the West. Bigelow had the happiness of living to see the growth and success of the idea of which he was in part the originator and one of the warmest of friends and protectors. That the Institute honored him with all the enthusiasm of which it was capable was to be expected, and was a fact. He never missed exhibiting and his pictures were in demand. Needless to say that he was fully represented in retrospective exhibitions of Chicago artists. A few years ago the veteran went east for a sojourn in the country of his birth a brought back a number of sketches. Among the most liberal of his buyers were the various women's clubs of the city.
In the beginning of his career Bigelow thought he had an inspiration portrait work and actually did some clever things at that time but he later gave up that notion and centered himself on landscape in which he persisted with success to the end of his life. He not only painted, but he had a philosophy which he did his best to impress on the young American painters who came within the sphere of his influence. His advice to all such was not to go abroad for their subjects. He taught that American scenes were the proper and the most fruitful for the development of native talent. His own boyhood and youth were spent in the shadow of the Adrondacks, and many of his later paintings were the result of sketches made by him at that plastic time of his life. The beauty of American scenes was not surpassed, he held, in any country of the world.
In the intervals of his busy life Bigelow would now and then take a commission for painting the home of some Chicago friend, and at those times, he has reproduced the residences of the late Judge Skinner, a pioneer Chicago jurist, Edward Teal, Edward Isham, the Keith brothers and a few others.
He was fond of talking of the early days of his life in Chicago, and few were the notable old residents who could speak more charmingly or with more vivid effect than he.
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