Bigelow, Walter King (8) = wal83229.htm

16163.2291 Josephine V., b 27 Jan 1877; d ____ ; m William H. Sanborn, and they had two children, Karl Bigelow Sanborn and Adalina T. Sanborn.

Sources:
The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Volume II, page 451;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America; page 439;
Stowe, VT vital records;
correspondence.
Note:
From: "Wanda" < aligator@pivot.net >
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006
Would you know if this is part of the Bigelow family that had stores in parts of MA which later became Almys Bigelow? I grew up and Salem and had
trade cards from the first Bigelow which later became the 2 names? When they were sold off they left the clock which is on Essex St. in Salem. I'm not
part of this family but it struck a cord...
This is the Bigelow with the Almys Bigelow connection.......ROD
New info from Janice Farnsworth:
A Visitor's Guide to Salem by John Robinson, Essex Institute, & Thomas Franklin Hunt. p.183
Almy, Bigelow and Washburn, 188-192 Essex Street - Pottery - They have an assortment of bowls, plates, etc, made in Japan from designs by Mr. Ross Turner, bearing on them sketches of landmarks of Salem, such as the Hawthorne House, Roger Williams House, etc.

Another source:
The Publisher's Weekly
September 29, 1888 (No.870)
by Publishers' Board of Trade, U.S., Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book
Trade Union, American Book Trade Association, R. R. Bowker Company

p.489
Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders
William Thomas Grant (June 27, 1876 - Aug 6, 1972 - Department Store chain store founder, the
founder of the W. T. Grant Store Company. Born at Stevensville, PA, etc etc. of an old New
England family who came to America in the 1620s etc. In 1906 he got an idea he thought would
make his name a household word throughout the country. As a buyer for the bargain counter at
Almy, Bigelow and Washburn of Salem, Mass., he noticed that the fatest selling merchandise was
priced at twenty five cents. A "magic price. With the backing of the three partneres whom he
brought out nine years later, he opened his 1st stoe about 5,000 square feet in Lynn, Mass.
etc etc.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth

Mr. James F. Almy & Co.
James F. Almy - in 1863 he acquired a part-interest in Mr. Almy's business and it became James
F. Almy & Company. Mr. Bigelow temporarily left the store, continuing his interest in the busi-
ness and enlisted for one year as a private in Company M, Fourth Massachusetts Heavy Artillery.
The company was attached to the Second Army Corps, and its service was in the defence of Washington.
In 1865 he was mustered out and honorably discharged at Readville, Mass. He returned to
Salem. Soon after this the name of James F. Almy and Co., wa changed to Almy, Bigelow & Wasbhurn.
And continued until 1890, after the death of the partner, when the former copartner became an
incorporated company with Mr. Bigelow its president and active business. This office he still
holds and under his management the establishment has taken rank as one of the largest and most
successful department enterprises in New England among the larger cities.

In his extensive interests in connection with the mercantile business, in which he was long
engaged, Mr. Bigelow always has had an earnest interest in the welfare of Salem, its people,
and its institutions, he was many years the director of the Salem Men's Christian Association,
He was the director of the Salem Men's Christian Association and was its president. He was a
director of the Mercantile National Bank, a Trustee of the Salem Savings Bank, a member of the
Association, the Board of Trade and of the New England Dry Goods Association. He was a member
of the Masonic Order and a comrade of the Phil Sheridan Post,

p.1469
No. 34, G.A.R. of Salem. In politics he was a Republican. For more than 40 years he was a
member of the Tabernacle Congregational church, one of its deacons for more than thirty years,
and for seventeen years was superintendent of its Sunday School. He also was a member and
director of the Congregational Educational Society, a national organization, and frequently
has been sent as delegate to local and general conventions of the Chicago Congregational church.
He is known as a liberal, public spirited citizen, and earnest supporter of every measure which
has for its object the promotion of the welfare of Salem and the best interst of its people and
no worthy charity ever appealed to him in vain.

Mr. Bigelow ws married first, August 30, 1865, to Amelia W. Merrill who died childless January,
1872. He m. (2) September 2, 1875, Adalina Y. Smith by who he has one daughter, Josephine V.
Bigelow, born January 27, 1877 who m. William H. Sanborn, and they had two children, Karl
Bigelow Sanborn and Adalina T. Sanborn. End.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth

Walter King 8 BIGELOW

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