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Bigelow Charles Hopkins [Male] b. 25 AUG 1850 Brookfield, Orange Co, VT - d. 1917
This family resided in Brookfield where he was the Town Clerk. He died in 1917 as did she, although one record states that she died in 1911.
Lucius had invented a carpet sweeper.
born at Hubbardston, VT on 20 April 1821. His marriage was on 27 October 1857 to Martha Jane Munroe who was born in Jefferson, ME on 18 April 1831. He was named after an early missionary to Burma (see below). He sailed from New York City on 17 March 1849 and arrived in San Francisco on 10 October 1849 and resided there until January 1859 when he moved to Sacramento, CA. He died in Antioch, CA 07 January 1892 (1891?). Martha died 11 October 1891.
Adoniram Judson Biglow was born in Hubbardton, Vermont, in the year 1821. He emigrated to California between March and October, 1849, at the first of the Gold Rush. Gold was discovered at Sutter's Creek in the Spring of 1848. Given the communication of the time and the rate of travel, Adoniram was one of the first to arrive in California. He first started a soap factory in San Francisco and later sold out and moved to Sacramento. Somewhere along the line, and I have never been able to determine when, his bachelor brother, Parcellus Kendrick Biglow, also came West, and the two were associated much of the time. When Adoniram died in 1891, he appointed by will Parcellus Kendrick to be the guardian of his son, David Carlton Orvis. Adoniram was something an historic figure. Having noted that there was a shortage of domestic bees in the State of California for the propagation of plant life, he determined to alter the situation In the next ten years he made two transcontinental trips to bring bees from the East Coast to California. He was California's pioneer bee man. He made the trek by sea to the Isthmus of Panama, walked across to the Istmus, and boarded other ships to continue. On the second trip he married Martha Monroe of the Vermont Monroes and brought her West. Her father was a preacher and had seven daughters, most of whom came to California. One of the sisters married a Poindexter, another a Billings, and a third a Brann. All were located in the San Francisco Bay area. Adoniram Judson was an intellectual type and a doer. He wrote a brochure on the care and management of bees in transit with particular attention to the way to insure their survival when carried on mule-back across the steaming jungles of Panama. Although certainly timely writing from information painfully acquired, it is now gloriously obsolete.
California's Great Valley of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers is 450 miles long north and south, 50 to 100 miles wide east and west, and is completely surrounded by mountains--Coast Range on the West, the Siskiyous on the north, the magnificent Sierra Nevada on the east, and the Tehachapis on the south (just north of Los Angeles). The only break in the mountains is where the San Joaquin River, which flows north, and the Sacramento River, which flows south, join and flow through the Carquinez Straights into the San Francisco Bay and out through the Golden Gate. Near where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers join lies roughly a right-angled triangle, approximately forty miles on the sides, terminating at the cities of Antioch, Stockton, and Sacramento In 1849 this area was all swamp, interspersed by many little, interconnecting rivers. At low tide the land was above water, and at high tide it was under water four to six feet, depending upon the season It contains a thousand miles of rivers.
Adoniram Judson and a man named Upham saw where this swampland, now known as the Delta, could be reclaimed by building a levee to keep the water out at high tide. They hired Chinese Coolies (the railroads having just been built, thousands were released and available to work) and with wheel-barrows and two-horse scrapers they built a levee and reclaimed about 6,000 acres of land lying at the confluence of the Sacramento and the San Joaquin Rivers. This project commenced about 1870. If you will look at your California map near the town of Antioch, you will see a road from Antioch to Sacramento. This road from Antioch crosses the San Joaquin River onto Sherman Island, the name Adoniram and Upham gave to the reclaimed land. Sherman Island was the first of the Delta to be reclaimed. By 1920 the entire Delta was reclaimed. The levees permit intensive farming; the crops include pears, apples, tomatoes, grain, corn, beans, soy beans, and much of the asparagus reaching the East Coast comes from this area. When he was in his early sixties Adoniram sold out to Upham and purchased the land that now is the eastern half of the Town of Antioch. Adoniram died in 1891.
In 1891, David Carlton Orvis Biglow, received his share of his father's estate, and attended Stanford University where he was graduated in Law one year after the pioneer class. Herbert Hoover was one year ahead of him and was manager of the football team on which David played. Charles Dole of the Dole Pineapple family from Honolulu was another class member and football player. David was a farmer at heart, and after five years as a government employee following college, he returned to farming and was a professional ranch manager. The family always lived on large ranches, usually 10,000 to 13,000 acres.
Lawyer for 40 yrs., active 1980 but turned management over to son Michael. Eugene served in WW II, then worked for Commercial Credit Corp., then as an insurance adjuster for Emp. Liability Assurance Corp during and between grad. fm. college -- then finished law training. He practiced in San Francisco a short time then went to Mexico and operated a placer gold mine. During the war he pur. a garage in LA until age 34 1/2 when he was called into the military for WW II. After the war, with a commercial pilots license and an aircraft and Engine Mechanic's rating, he spent 10 yrs. in flying business. Eugene says "It is more a help than a handicap to have had so many turbulent years, it is as if someone had been forcing me to become versitile so I could do a better job for my clients."
1970 graduate of School of Law, Univ. of CA at Berkeley, manages his father's law firm--Eugene Allen Bigelow of Fresno CA in 1980.
They resided a few years in Brandon, VT and then moved to Amherst, MA where he was a very successful physician. He died in Amherst on 02 February 1899.
John A. Bigelow, son of Silas Leland Bigelow, was born in 1878 possibly in Brooklyn, L.I., NY. At age six, he moved to Tampa, FL where he lived for 42 years when he died on 17 Sep 1928, age 50. He was president of the Tampa Sheet Metal Contractors Association, and died at hishome, 704 Louisiana Avenue. He was buried at Oaklawn Cemetery, Tampa, FL. Funeral was at the Tampa Heights methodist church, Rev. T.L.Z.Barr conducting services. The W. Windhorst lodge of Masons, of which Mr. Biglow was a member, will have charge of services at the grave in Oaklawn cemetery. He was survived by two daughters, Misses Annie and Gladys Biglow and two sons, Thomas and Frank Biglow, all of Tampa; a brother and a sister. Mrs. John A. Bigelow died 5 July 1941, age 41 and interred at Jackson Cemetery, Tampa, FL. Miss Barrett was daughter of William J Barrett of Charleston, SC. Her pallbearers were Oscar Worrall, A. D. Pimm, J. L. Brown, Garnet Robey, J.J. Beddingfield and A. E. J. Anderson. Rev. Steinmeyer officiated at her funeral and the address was given 3315 Tampa St.
Amariah was a shoemaker and they resided in Rochester, NY where he died 20 September, 1868. His widow died after 1889.
Amos graduated from the Vermont Medical School in 1845 and commenced the practice of medicine in the town of Barre, in August of the same year. They resided Barre, VT, she died there 15 December, 1871. He died after 1888.
He was a prominent man in his town and represented his district in the Legislature, 1880. "A man highly respected, thoroughly honest, and a Christian gentleman". He died 15 March 1885 at Paxton.
Henry served in the Civil War.
Civil War: 51st MA. Vol's., 2nd MHA
born at Lunenburg, NH in 1910 and lived there all his life before moving in 1974 to Tuftonboro, NH. He married in 1932 to Frances Landin to whom he was married for 62 years. Joseph was a selectman in Lunenburg from 1946 to 1958. He was a long time member of Lunenburg Congregational Church and a 50 year member of Morning Star Lodge of Masons in Wolfeboro, NH. He died 12 Oct 1994, "of Mirror Lake, Tuftonboro, NH" and was buried 14 Oct 1994 in South Cemetery, Lunenburg, NH. A son Joseph P. Jr., and wife, Frances (Landin) Bigelow survived with 3 grandaughters; six great grandchildren; nephews and nieces. From Obit in Webster Times, Webster, MA.
After an early education, he taught in the common schools and earned his college money. He attended Worcester Academy, Brown University and completed his courses at University of NY. He then studied in Germany and after returning to this country, entered the ministry and settled in Bristol, RI. Then to Middleborough, MA, Keeseville, NY and St. Albans, VT. About 1868, he became associated with his brother in a young ladies seminary at Brooklyn, NY where he continued for 12 years. He married Sophronia Nye Lovell, daughter of Ellis J. and Lydia (Gifford) Lovell, born at Osterville, MA 09 March 1819. He died at Brooklyn 20 June 1884. His widow resided in Brooklyn after his death and died after 1888.
George Bigelow was the first layman to fill the role of Principal of the Normal School.
Bigelow added new courses and increased the content in existing courses.
Advanced training in foreign languages as well as in English literature, modern history, and higher mathematics
were added for the graduate students. Student enrollment, which previously had been on the wane, began to increase,
slowly at first, and then more rapidly due to the demand for teachers during the Civil War.
In 1864, the Principal and six assistants were teaching 173 women. George Bigelow became gravely ill in 1865.
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15327.74 George Norman 7 BIGELOW, son of Silas 6 ( Ithamar 5 , Samuel 4, Samuel 3, Samuel 2, John 1) and Sophia (LAMB) BIGELOW, was born 14 January 1823 at Paxton, Worcester, MA. On 25 November 1856 he married Frances Louise Babcock, daughter of Rev. Elisha and Eliza (Hubbard) Babcock. She was born 01 June 1836 at Thetford, VT and died at Framingham, MA 31 December 1863 (see below). He married (2) Fannie Whitcomb, daughter of Elbridge G. and Salome (Newcomb) Whitcomb, at Keene, NH 06 December 1866. She was born 04 September 1845. George Norman was well known in educational and literary circles. Early he had gone abroad to study at the University of Berlin and on his return received the degree of Master of Arts from Brown University. He was principal of schools both in MA and NY. He was principal of the High School at Clinton, MA for a few years; and the principal of the State Normal School at Framingham for eleven years. In 1868, he went to Brooklyn, NY where he and his brother John F. (15327.71) opened the "Atheneum", a young ladies seminary. After his brother retired, (1880), he ran the school alone until he died 28 August 1887 at Brooklyn. (Professor George Norman Bigelow was also well known as a contributor to magazines on educational topics.)
Paul and Hannah Bigelow lived in Upton for a year or two, then moved to Westborough, where we find they were warned (according to the custom of the times) to leave town in 1763. They do not appear to have done so, as several of their children were later born in Westborough.
The Bigelow history credits Paul with having served throughout the American Revolution. Massachusetts service records state that Paul served 11 days as a drummer in the local militia, on 19 Apr 1775, in the Battle of Concord and Lexington, and toward the end of the war served an additional few months.
Paul and family moved to Windham county, Vermont at the end of the Revolution. He was ennumerated on the 1790 census at Dummerston, Vermont. Only three children were then living at home. In 1800 he and wife Hannah were living in Chesterfield, Cheshire county, New Hampshire, living next door to their oldest son, Ebenezer. By 1802 they had returned to Vermont, and settled at Brookline, Windham county. The Bigelow genealogy says that he removed to Montreal with his sons, but we cannot prove this. His death date is given as 1 Mar 1806, probably at Brookline. (We are attempting to prove the place of death and burial.) His widow remained at Brookline many years, but in 1826 removed with their son Job to Ashford, Cattaraugus county, NY. She died there 3 Sep 1835; there is no marker for her in the family cemetery at Thomas Corners, Ashford.
Paul was a smith by trade. It is said he was a goldsmith, but a smith in that period was most likely to be skilled in all types of metal-working, from rough forge work to silver and gold smithing.
1790 census: VT-Windham-Dummerston-Paul Bigelow: l-1-3-0-0.
Mass Sold & Sale of Rev War, Vol II:
Biglow, Paul, Westborough. Drummer, Capt. Seth Morse's co., Maj. Gen. Ward's regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19,1775; service, 11 days; also, Private, Capt. Nathaniel Wright's co., Col. Luke Drury's regt.; rnarched from home Aug.
9, 1781; arrived at camp Aug.18, 1781; discharged Nov.18; service, 3 mos. 20 days, at West Point; residence,
Westborough; enlisted for town for Southborough.
Biglow, Paul. Private, Capt. Joseph Winch's co., Col. Samuel Bullard's regt.; enlisted Aug.16, 1777; discharged Sept.30, 1777; service, 1 mo. 26 days, in Northern department. Roll sworn to in Middlesex Co.
Noah and Kate had two sons born in Westborough, after which they appear to have moved from the town.
Noah Bigelow served in the militia, and was a volunteer from Westborough at the Battle of Lexington and Concord on 19 Apr 1775. In 1777 he enlisted from Amherst for three years, and served as a sergeant from 3 Mar 1777 to 3 Mar 1780. He was in Capt. Daniel Shay's company, under Col. Rufus Putnam, and was at the battles of Princeton and Trenton, and saw the surrender of General Burgoyne. According to his pension application, he was mustered out in New York state.
What becarne of his wife Catherine is not known, as Amherst records prior to 1820 were destroyed, but on 18 Mar 1778 in Worcester, Noah married (2) Elizabeth Goulding. He was then "of Shutesbury," MA.
Noah next appears in Bennington county, Vermont, on the 1790 census, living near his two oldest sons. His family then consisted of one male over 16 (himself), one male under 16, and three females.
In 1793 Noah sold his property in Woodford, Bennington county, VT, and was then "of Cambridge, New York" in Washington county. The 1800 census of Cambridge shows 1 male over 45 (Noah himself), 2 males and 1 female aged 1625, 1 male and 1 female under 10 (children Phebe and Elijah). The female between ages 16-25 is presumably his third wife Elizabeth
___ . In 1810 Noah was still at Cambridge, and his family had increased. About 1815, at the close of the War of 1812, Noah and his family moved to Blenheim, Schoharie county, NY. It is thought that he raised one or more of his son Noah jr's children, that family being broken up about 1805 by the death of their mother.
In 1818 Congress passed its first veterans' pension act, and Noah applied for a pension on 15 May 1819. He stated that his birth date was 20 Sep 1742, and gave a full record of his military service. He certified that he was "75 years of age" and unable to function in his normal occupation of farmer, and had "a wife about 45 years of age," and several dependent children. These were listed as Zadock, age 13, Cornelius, age 10, W. Franklin, age 8, and Mary Ann, age 17 months. The clerk of the court inserted that of these, only Zadock was able to support himself.
Noah's property was ennumerated as follows: "Of real estate or property I have none. Of personal property--one cow, one hog, three iron pots, one iron tea kettle, five old common chairs, one old pine table, one old large spinning wheel, one small spinning wheel, one suit of old mended cloaths for myself, two suits of old ragged cloaths for my wife, one suit of old and patched cloaths for each of my five children, all without shoes except the youngest one." The pension of $8 monthly was granted in 1821, retroactive to the day of application. Note that Noah refers to five dependent children, but the clerk listed only four, possibly omitting daughter Polly or Hannah.
Noah was still collecting his pension in 1830, and was listed as 90 years of age (he was 88). In 1832 he moved from
Blenheim, presumably at the death of his wife, and the final payment record shows that he lived in Andes township, Delaware
county, NY, where several of his sons lived. In arranging transfer of pension, he reiterated that he had collected his pension 14
years at Blenheim. The last senai-annual payment was made in Oct 1832; family records indicate that he died 29 Mar 1833.
born 17 Apr 1753 at Westborough, Middlesex co, MA. He died there 26 Dec 1776; unmarried; Like his brothers Paul and Noah, he was at the Battle of Concord and Lexington, and served throughout 1775, but became ill and returned home 1776.
Mass Sold & Sail of Rev War, Vol.II:
Bigelow, Job, Southborough. Private, Capt. Josiah Fay's co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service 5 days; reported enlisted into the army.
Biglow, Job. Private; list of men returned as serving on picket guard, under Maj. Loammi Baldwin, May 11, 1775; also, list of men returned as serving on picket guard, under Maj.Baldwin, May 23, 1775.
Biglow, Job, Southborough. Private. Capt. ]osiah Fay's Co. Col. Jonathan Ward's regt; muster roll dated Aug 1, 1775; enlisted April 24, 1775; scrvice 1mo. 17days; reported enlisted into train June 8, 1775; also, Matross, Capt. Samuel Gridley's co., Col. Richard Gridley's (Artillery) rgt., muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted June 8, 1775; service, 1 mo. 26 days; also, receipt for advance pay dated Cambridge. Aug. 5, 1775; also, company return [probably Oct., 1775]; also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money, dated Fort No. 2 Cambridge, Nov. 8, 1775.
He served in the Revolutionary War, and on 30 May 1780 he married Martha Hall. After the birth of their first child they settled in Broadalbin, Fulton county, NY, where he died Mar 1806. Martha died at the home of their son Otis, on 1 Sep 1819, at Baldwinsville, Onondaga county, NY. She was aged 69 years.
1790 census: MA-Worcester-Westborough-Asahel Bigelow: 1-4-1-0-0.
Mass Sold & Sail of Rev War, Vol II:
Bigelow, Asahel, Westborough. Private, Capt. Wheelock's co., Col. Ward's regt.; company return [probably Oct., 1775]; also, Capt. Japheth Daniel's co., Lieut. Col. Calvin Smith's (late Nixon's) 6th regt.; return for wages, etc., for Jan.-Dec., 1781; time allowed from Feb.17, 1781; reported sick in hospital June, 1781.
Biglow, Asahel, Westborough. Private, Capt. Edmund Brigham's co. of Minute-men, Maj. Gen. Ward's regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 5 days; reported enlisted into the army; also, Capt. Moses Wheelock's co., Col. Jonathan Ward's regt.; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted April 24, 1775; service, 3 mos. 15 days; also, Capt. Brigham's co., Col. Job Cushing's regt.; company to be mounted if possible; marched to reinforce Northern army Aug.21, 1777, by order of Gens. Stark and Lincoln; proceeding to Hadley and was there counter-ordered; service, 5 days; also, descriptive list of enlisted men; Capt. Fisher's co., Col. Cushing's regt.; age. 25 yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 11 in.; complexion, dark; occupation, farmer; residence, Westborough; enlisted Feb.27, 1781; enlistment, 3 years; also, Capt. Japheth Daniels's co., Lieut. Col. Calvin Smith's (6th) regt.; return for wages, etc., for Jan.-Dec., 1782.
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