Edward Francis ⁹ BIGELOW

14261.3121 Edward Francis ⁹ BIGELOW, son of Edward Lindley ⁸ ( John W. ⁷ , Jabez ⁶, John ⁵, Joseph ⁴,Daniel ³, Daniel ², John¹) and Carrie (STRATTON) BIGELOW, was born 19 January 1868 in Worcester, MA. He began his career as a painter of locomotives and railcars, and in later life was an executive with Scientific Production Company, a paint manufacturing company headquartered in New York City. He married first, at an unknown date prior to 1894, Rachel R., and had two sons. Rachel died of influenza in April 1919 at the age of 48. Edward married second, Nellie Thomas on 20 June 1920. Nellie was born 04 December 1886 in Washington, DC. She graduated from the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing in NYC (now the Columbia University School of Nursing) in 1911. Edward and Nellie had two sons and one daughter. Edward died 03 January 1962 in Huntington Station, NY. Nellie died 18 September 1986 in Bellevue, WA. (see below)

Children of Edward and Rachel ( ____ ) Bigelow:

14261.31211 George Lindley "Lin", b 01 July 1894 Annapolis, MD; d 14 Dec 1934; m 1923 Jeanne ____ ; no children

14261.31212 William Edward, b 03 Mar 1896 Roanoke, VA; d ca 1950; m Bette ___ ; no children; engineer, spent many years in Guatamala;

Children of Edward and Nellie (Thomas) Bigelow:

14261.31213 Thomas, b 30 June 1921 NY; d 20 Oct 1948; Army medic in Europe during WWII;

14261.31214 Robert, b 25 Sept 1922 Nassau co, NY; d 05 Jan 1985 Queens, NY; m twice; (see below)

14261.31215t Mary Caroline, b 18 Feb 1925 NY City, NY; d 16 Sept 2007 Bellevue, WA (obit below); m ca 1946 Walter Olszewski; 5 children;

Sources:
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol II, pg 293-294;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
records of Bigelow Society historian/genealogist;
Robert Bigelow, News Editor, in Honolulu "Advertiser" 1 Oct 1967;
reprinted 1998 in "Forge", Quarterly of Bigelow Society, in four sequences;
Maurice D. Bigelow in correspondence with family.
Notes:
From: Jonathan Bigelow jonathan.bigelow@verizon.net

Edward ⁹ Bigelow was the subject of a series of articles written by Robert ¹⁰ Bigelow (14261.31214) and published in the 1960's. According to the Bigelow Society these articles were reprinted in the Forge in 1998.
see FORGE: The Bigelow Society Quarterly; Vol. 27, No 1; Jan 1998;

Robert ¹⁰ Bigelow
14261.31214 Robert ¹⁰ Bigelow, son of Edward Francis ⁹, was born September 25, 1922, in Nassau County, New York. He was a weatherman in the Army Air Corps during the Second W orId War, and graduated from Boston University in 1949 with a degree in journalism. He was a newspaper reporter, editor and columnist, primarily in New York, where he spent many years with the New York Post. From 1963 to 1974 he was an editor and columnist with the Honolulu Advertiser in Honolulu, Hawaii. He returned to work for the Post in 1976.
He married, first, Jeanne (private), in 1949, in Harwichport, Massachusetts. Jeanne was born December 25, 1921, in Littlestown, Pennsylvania. She graduated ftom Wheaton College in Massachusetts in 1943, and received a master's degree in education from Boston University in 1949. Jeanne died August 20, 1971, in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Robert and Jeanne had one son, (private)
Robert married, second, Phyllis Ronnie, in 1973. They had no children.
Robert died January 5, 1985, in Queens, New York

Obituary for Mary Caroline

Modified - 10/25/2009
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