Andrew 6 BIGELOW
16952.2 Andrew 6 BIGELOW, son of Timothy 5( Timothy
4 , Daniel 3, Joshua2, John1),
and Lucy (PRESCOTT) BIGELOW, was born 07 May 1795 (see below) at Groton, Middlesex county, MA.
He graduated at Harvard 1814, and from its divinity school 1817; was ordained
an evangelist in 1820 and began his ministry in Eastport, ME, but declined
to stay there. He became the minister at Medford, MA 1823-27. In 1828 he
took the Unitarian Church at Washington, D.C. for one year. In 1833 he settled
at Taunton, then at South Danvers (now called Peabody) 1843-45, after which
he was employed in Boston as minister at large by the Benevolent Fraternity
of Churches. He was a pioneer in organizing the Home for Aged Men in Boston.
In 1821 he published Leaves from a Journal. He delivered the election
sermon in 1836. He married, on 26 January 1824, Amelia Sargent Stanwood,
daughter of Theodore and Sarah (Rogers) Stanwood. She was born 12 September
1806 at Glocester, MA, and died 01 October 1893 at Boston. Andrew died in
1877, also at Boston.
Children of Andrew and Amelia S. (Stanwood) Bigelow:
16952.21t Timothy,
b 15 Mar 1825 Medford, MA; d ____ 1898 Boston, MA;m 07 Jan 1854 Louisa Jane
Bennett.
16952.22 Theodore S., b 30 July 1826 Medford; d
27 July 1872 Chicago, IL; unm. see unproven marriage below
16952.22t Theodore
Stanford, b 30 July 1826 Medford; d 27 July 1872 Chicago, IL; m unproven
Katherine Gray of Dublin Ireland; 1 child.
Sources:
Bigelow Family Genealogy Volume. I page.350;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America; page 267;
NEHG Register.
Date of Birth for Andrew from different
sources; Pedigree sheet from Big Soc Lib has 07 May; PAF has 07 Aug; another
has 07 April;
Modified - 10/11/2008
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