Ephraim 8 BIGELOW
16251.6811 Ernest Osborn, b 27 Sept 1875; d 08 Aug 1942 St. Petersburg, FL; m 21 June 1899 Ida King; 3 children.
Sources:
The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Volume II, pg 487;
Howe,Bigelow Family of America;
cemetery records, Columbia, OH.
Lorain county Ohio History", page 1109.
History of Huron county, OH; by A.J. Baughman; pub 1909; page 418-420; (see directly below)
"E.
Bigelow, a pioneer in the utilization of
the rich clay deposits in the vicinity of New London and the founder
and promoter of an important industrial enterprise, is now extensively
and successfully engaged in the manufacture of brick and tile. He was
born upon a farm in Lorain county, Ohio, June 28, 1845, and is a son of
Daniel and Martha (Stranahan) Bigelow, natives of Ohio and Connecticut
respectively. The parents wer identified with the farming interests of
Lorain county, where E. Bigelow was reared to agricultural pursuits.
Acquiring his early education in the county schools at the same time he
received thorough and ample training in farm work as through the summer
months, he assisted in the labors of the fields. He continued to engage
in farming until the age of twenty-eight years, when he opened a
general store in Westview, which he conducted for nineteen years. That
enterprise proved a profitable and growing one, but at the end of six
years his health failed, owing to the close confinement of the store
and he partially withdrew from mercantile pursuits to give his time and
energies to brick and tile making, taking up that line of manufacture
in Columbia, Lorain county. He started the business on a very modest
scale, but by close attention, unremitting energy and earnest study of
processes of manufacture and the adoption of practical methods, he
prospered as the years went by, continuing at that location until 1897.
By keeping in touch with everything concerning his line of business, he
came to know of the wonderful clay deposits at New London and foresaw
great possibilities there. Removing to this placein 1897, he
established his business in a small way, oaying thirty-five hundred
dollars for the land and taking up the manufacture with five employees
operating one kiln. At that time, his son, E.O. Bigelow, was old enough
to join him and together they have built up from this humble beginning
a business which is one of the importantindustries of the county and of
which New London has every reason to be proud. They now employ
fifty men, operate eight kils and have made many improvements in their
plant. They have erected a fine plant equipped with the most modern
machinery and there is a constant and growing demand for their
products, including tile and brick. Their output is sent to many
states, being shipped to the eastern seaboard, to Virginia, Maryland,
and North Carolina. They also have a very extensive trade in northern
Ohio and the indications are that the business will constantly increase
for it is founded upon a safe, substantial basis and because of its
owner's broad experience and keen discernment.
E. O.
Bigelow, the junior partner, is an only child. He acquired a good
preliminary education and then attended Baldwin College at Berea, Ohio,
after which he joined his father in business. He is energetic,
wide-a-wake, alert and enterprising, and both he and his father are
popular with their employees, of whom their treatment is ever just and
fair.
E.O. Bigelow
was married in 1899, to Miss Ida King, a daughter of Dr. King of New
London. They have three children; Irena, Ernestine, and James Otis.
E.O. Bigelow
is a thirty-second degree Mason, having thus attained high rank in the
Scottish Rite. While devouring their energies largely to their business
interests, which are continually growing in volume and importance, the
Bigelows, father and son, take an active partin public affairs and have
always given earnest support to those independent office seekers whose
course seems to promise loyal and valuable service rather than strict
party allegiance. They are men of high ideals in relation to public
life and also in their business connections. They have never regarded
their employees as a part of a system of machinery, or business, but
have looked upon them as individuals whose co-operations, assistance
and good will can be won and maintained through just treatment and
appreciation of reliable service. All who know of their business
prophecy for it a successful future and prosperity is well deserved by
them for both, father and son are genial, unassuming men of true worth
and with good business ability."
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