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Bigelow Alonzo Michener [Male] b. 20 MAY 1879 Canning, Nova Scotia, Canada - d. 27 FEB 1955 Trochu, Alberta, Canada
He married Jenny Elizabeth Spears on 03 September 1903. She was born 08 August 1878 at Highgate Springs,, VT, the daughter of Alexander and Mary Curley) Spears. They had eight children. They moved to Wimborne Alberta, Canada 10 April 1910. His brother Emerson arrived in Wimborne in 1919 and they farmed together for 23 years, living a half mile apart. Their descendants started the Western Bigelow Society. Alonzo Michener Bigelow was a locomotive mechanical engineer and farmer. Jenny, a Homemaker. They both are shown as dying 27 February 1955 at Trochu, Alberta, Canada. Perhaps an accident.
Nathan Eaton, a daughter (Ruby), son-in-law (Charles Wright) and two grandchildren were killed in a car-train accident in July 1929).
(Levi was a supervisor for Goodyear Tire Co., and Ethel a Teacher and Home Maker);
born 16 September 1906 at New Salem, Cumberland, Canada. On 12 July 1938 at Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, he married Muriel Olga Smith (b 17 Nov 1906; d 21 June 1995; the dau of R.W. and Ethel (Inch) Smith). John grew up in the town of his father, grandfather, and great grandfather. He attended school with his four sisters, Anna, Laurabel, Mabel and Lydia; attended Acadia University two years, taking engineering and in 1930 transferred to Forrestry School at University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Forestry 1933. After marriage he worked in marketing forest products for the government of Nova Scotia. World War II started and John worked for the Federal government in Ottawa on lumber export policies and controls. In 1946-47 he returned to NS and became manager of the Maritime Lumber Bureau. He was a civil servant and forestry engineer for Government of Nova Scotia. John died in 1997. They were parents of two children.
She was a Registered nurse, a sister (nun) of the order of the Charity d'Evron.
born 03 September 1906 Montreal, Quebec. His father moved his family back to Oakland, Maine where he farmed until 1910. There were three children in the family at that time: Beatrice, Owen, and Emerson who was born 1908. Alonzo decided to follow his brother Scott to Alberta and went to Wimborne to try his luck out west. Owen started school at Collingwood, a distance of 3 miles.
In 1933 Owen married Vera Bates, born 07 Sep 1910 at Pinelake, Alberta,Canada, daughter of William Edward and katharine (Lynn) Bates. They were parents of 4 children. and they lived at Lac La Biche on the Lac La Biche river from 1933-1953. They moved back to Wimborne in 1953 and lived west of there on a rented place, then to the Huxley area where Owen worked for a farmer until he moved back to the home place where Alonzo and wife, (his parents) came in 1910. They moved to Red Deer in 1972 and lived there about 17 years. Owen died 15 Oct 1993 at Innisfail, Alberta, Canada at age 87 and was buried in the Wimborne cemetery, Alberta, where his brother Emerson was buried in August of 1991. Owen and Vera celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary October 12, 1993 and he died 3 days later.
He was a farmer, boiler engineer, leathercraftsman and race horse fancier. Elizabeth Donna was a Registered nurse, homemaker and horse fancier.
born 30 December 1910 in Trochu, Alberta, Canada. She was raised in the Trochu district and graduated from the St. Joseph General Hospital with her Registered Nursing Diploma. She moved to Westlock for a short time until her mother became ill and she returned home.
She married Ivan "Art" Arthur Carpenter on 22 June 1937 at Emonton, Alberta, Canada, and 20 Sep 1997 at the Elks Lodge in Red Deer, Alberta, she and husband, Art Carpenter celebrated their 60th Wedding anniversary. All of their children and spouses, grandchildren and great grandchildren attended. Also attending were Art's sister, Ellen Lenz and family, Dorothy's 3 brothers and wives, cousins, and friends. A lovely time was enjoyed by those present. After her marriage to Art, in the summer of 1938, dorothy, along with infant son Myran took a freighter from Waterways to Fort Fitzgerald on the Athabascan River to join her husband at fort smith, AB. They resided there two years before returning to Wimbourne, AB. In 1946 they bought a farm at James River AB where they farmed until 1959 when they purchased a larger farm near rimbey AB. Dorothy always had a young attitude and a love for life. At a very young 80 years old, Dorothy, Art and grandson Myran Beelby rode by horseback from Rimbey to her brother Dave's farm at Innisfail. they camped the first night at the Medicine River campground, and rode the next day to the Daines Ranch north of Innisfail before completing their ride to Dave's farm.
Dorothy is survived by husband, Art; three sons, Ivan (Donna) of Terrace BC, Wayne (Sharon) of Rocky Mountain House AB, Ormond (Sharon) of Drayton Valley AB; two daughters, Sandy (Fred) Ringey; 11 grch; 11 gr.grch; and two brothers, Sam Bigelow of Surrey BC and Dave (Grace) Bigelow of Innisfail AB. She was predeceased by her son Myran in 1965; four brothers, Carl, Owen, Emerson and Herb; one sister, Sr.Beatrice Bigelow and one sister-in-law, Ellen Lenz. Funeral services were held at the Rimbey Church of the Nazarene on 6 Jan 2000. Interment followed in the West Haven Cemetery.
Howard killed by wounded elephant in Africa. Both he and wife left the U.S., from
LA, CA to become missionaries in 1929, stationed at Lake Kivu,Belgian Congo.
3 children including Don Bigelow.
FORGE, October 1979, Vol.8, #4, p.74 states he was
b. 1880s-1890s. They translated the Bible according to St. Mark into the
African language used by the Congo natives. Howard was asked by Howard Hill,
great archer and film producer, to accompany him in Africa to produce the film
later called "Tembo" a documentary and adventure film showing that an adult
elephant could be taken with a bow and arrow. Bigelow did most of the game
hunting for this production and as such as a licensed hunter and guide. Plans
were made at the conclusion of the film-shooting, Bigelow would leave Lake Kivu
for a mission at Costermansville, about 85 miles distant. Anna still in the US
would take the H.M.S. Queen Mary from NY to Paris, then fly to Africa to join
Howard. On 23 Jan 1951, Howard, realizing he could still take one elephant
according to the permit he held for the Hill expedition, decided to use this to
assist two young native friends. The young couple, quite impoverished, needed
a little money in order to marry. Sale of a pair of elephant tusks would bring
them about $90. Therefore, Howard Bigelow and some native friends set out into
the bush country to take an elephant. About dusk they spotted an elephant down
in a river valley. Howard fired 5 shots from the ridge but only wounded the
animal. He fired a 6th shot the same time the elephant spotted Howard and
chased him. Tall grass hampered Howard Bigelow's escape and the elephant
caught up with him. He hit Howard with its trunk then put its one and only
tusk through Howard's mid section, picked him up and threw him into the air.
Howard died and the elephant's body was found the next day about 2 miles up
river. FORGE article written by members of the Western Bigelow Society.
he was killed in an airplane crash.
William was a physician/surgeon and practiced in the Brandon, Manitoba area where all of their children were born and both are buried.
born 18 June 1913. He married Ruth Jennings on 09 July 1941. He was a surgeon who invented the technique of hypothermia for open-heart surgery, and performed the world's first such procedure on a dog at the Banting Institute in 1949, was also a co-inventor of the pacemaker. He is considered father of Cardiovascular surgery in Canada and received the Order of Canada in 1981. He was inducted into the Medical Hall of Fame. Last residence, Brandon, ONT.
Henry was a lawyer, practicing in Truro until 1907 when he moved to Regina, Saskatchewan. In 1918 he became Justice of the Kings Bench in Saskachewan.
was killed in an airplane accident
Dr. Charles Cross Bigelow was elected as a Board member of Bigelow Society 1979-1982. He was of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He grew up in Toronto and grad. from. the Royal Military College of Canada and received a degree of bachelor of applied sciences in chemical engineering fm. the University of Toronto. He earned a master of science degree and title of Doctor of Philosophy in physical chemistry from McMaster Univ. in Hamilton, Ont. He did post-doctoral study in Copenhagen where his daughter. was born. Later research took him to the U.S. where his son was born. in New York City. He has worked at several labs and universities: Alberta, Western Ont. at London, Fl.State, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland and St. mary's of Halifax. He was appointed Dean of Science and prof. of Chemistry at the Univ. of Manitoba in Winnipeg. (just prior to 1979) He has been president of Canadian Association of University teachers and a fellow of Chemical Institute of Canada and is a member of the Canadian Biochemical Society and International Union of Biochemistry.
His two children were by his first marriage: Mrs. Ann McLean of Ilderton, ONT (in 1979) and David.
He is from the Nova Scotia Branch of Bigelows by heritage and comes from a family prominent in the legal profession
was a senior pilot with Pan-Am.
Clarence was a blacksmith and moved into Northern California living in Susanville, Lassen co. and Chico, Butte co
Adijah served in the Revolutionary War
served in Rev War
he was a Pvt in Rev War
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