Child of Asa and Mary E. (LaMonte) Bigelow:
16C59.C1 LaMonte, b 01 June 1850; d 11 Mar 1851.
Children of Asa and Martha A. (Scott) Bigelow, born Attica, IN:
16C59.C2 Ella, b 15 Sept 1854; d 04 Aug 1855.
16C59.C3 Oakalla, b 31 Dec 1857; d 25 Jan 1916; m 17 May 1899 J.D. Blue; res Toledo, OH. (see pic below)
16C59.C4t Chauncey Scott, b 26 Sept 1862; d 02 Dec 1914; m Margaret Gassaway; res Toledo, OH. 3 children.
16C59.C5 Reuben, b _ July 1866; d 18 June 1887. (see pic below)
Sources:
Bigelow Family Genealogy Volume. I page.372-373;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America; pg 278;
correspondence with descendants.
Forge, The Bigelow Society Quarterly; Vol 12, No 3 (below);
July 1983, p 43;
Asa Bigelow, physician, was born 2 MAY 1820 in
Peru, Bennington county, VT. His
parents Reuben Bigelow (Jabez , Eleizer , Joshua , John ) and Abigail Brooks,
were Americans of Welsh[sic] extraction. His father settled in Peru about
1798, purchasing two farms for fifty cents. One of these farms he afterwards
sold, and on the other raised 12 children. Reuben Bigelow was a man of force
and prominence, and served several years in the Legislature of Vermont...Seven
children were girls, and five were boys, of whom Asa was the youngest. Asa
laid the foundation of his education in the academies at Chester and Brattleborough...he
read medicine...then graduated at Woodstock 10 March 1840. For 3 years and
a half he practised medicine in Windham, and then joined his old preceptor
in practice in Londonderry. In 1845 he went to Attica, Fountain county, IN,
where he pursued his profession...for 26 years. In 1862 he was commissioned
surgeon of the 3rd Illinois Cavalry, was at the Battle of Pea Ridge, and
left the army in October of the same year to settle in Toledo, where he has
since resided. His large practice in medicine and surgery has come as the
result of a mind fitted for the profession. His medical brethren have not
been slow to acknowledge his ability and skill. Dr. Bigelow is an active
member of the Medical Association of Toledo. On 14 Feb 1848 he married Mary
E. Lamont, who died 2 Dec 1830, leaving an infant son. On 4 Oct 1853 Dr.
Bigelow married Martha A. Scott of Fountain County. Of this union 4 children
were born, 1 girl and 2 boys of whom are still living.
.... The above extract was sent to us three years ago (1980) by a friend
now deceased. The volume from which taken was not identified. Can our readers
identify the book,please?