Marybelle Olive (Schmidt) Bigelow (1923-2003)
Children of Henry and Zoe (Baylis) Bigelow:
15133.24511 Henry Baylis, b 05 Apr 1884 San
Francisco; d 15 Feb 1890;
15133.24512 George Everest, b 14 June 1886 San Francisco; d 18 Dec 1978 Downey, Los Angeles co, CA; m (1) 12 May 1913 Edith Mc Graw; m (2) 01 Sept 1923 Florence Louisa Hokon; m (3?) Muriel Smiley; 4 children from first marr: John McGraw, Edward Walker, Kenneth, and Flora May Bigelow (FTM)
15133.24513 Frederick Norton, b 17 Dec
1887;
d _______ ;
Sources:
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol II, pg
298
child;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
City directories and the newspapers named. San Francisco Examiner.
correspondence between descendant and Bigelow Society
historian/genealogist [prior to 1995]; Birth Record for Henry
Homes
Bigelow; Census reports and city directories; Caroline Foote,
Livermore, CA 30 Sep 2001 to Loring who sent it to genealogist.
Note:
Subject: Henry Derby Bigelow
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 09:09:41 -0500
From: "Rusty" <rusty@minot.com>
I traced my family roots all the way back to John Biglo and
Mary Warren. What I am looking for is the son of Henry Homes
Bigelow
and Mary Derby Smith; Henry Derby Bigelow. I think that was
the
link that was
not working. Do you have any info on him? Richard Bigelow
15133.24512 George Everest, b 14 June
1886
San Francisco; d 18 Dec 1978 Downey, Los Angeles co, CA; m (1) 12
May 1913 Edith Mc Graw; m (2) 01 Sept
1923 Florence Louisa Hokon; m (3?) Muriel Smiley; 4 children from
first
marr:
15133.245121 John McGraw,
15133.245122 Edward Walker,
15133.245123 Kenneth
Bigelow, b 25 Oct 1924 Los Angeles, CA; d 21 Oct 1951; m
08 Aug
1951 Marybelle Olive Schmidt
(b 18 July 1923; d ___ 2003)(see below)
15133.245124 Flora May Bigelow,
Marybelle Olive (Schmidt) Bigelow (1923-2003)
Marybelle
Schmidt
Bigelow, born in La Mesa, California on July 18, 1923
was a distinguished professor of fashion and costume history, an
accomplished artist and a prolific writer and creator. Bigelow
received
both her BA and MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA), and went on to teach there for more than six years. She
was
awarded the esteemed Prix de Paris for fashion design and
illustration,
and worked briefly for Vogue Magazine in New York as a staff
designer.
In 1956, Bigelow was invited to join the staff of San Diego State
University (SDSU), where she taught fashion illustration, costume
history, and graphic communication courses in the art department
for
more than twenty years. During her tenure at SDSU, Bigelow was
active
on a variety of committees and was recognized as an Outstanding
Educator in 1970, 1971 and 1972.
In 1967, Bigelow completed Alphabets and
Design, which was later adopted as a text for graphics and
communications classes by the University of Minnesota. She then
went on
to write and illustrate her seminal text on the history of fashion
and
costume, Fashion in History: Apparel in the Western World. The
second
edition was completed and published in 1979 and is still in
publication. Although she retired in 1980, Bigelow continued to
remain
very active in academic life at SDSU, and was editor of the
retirement
newsletter for more than 12 years.
In addition to her career as an art
professor,
Bigelow was an active artist and creator, exhibiting in numerous
galleries and museums, including the La Jolla Museum of
Contemporary
Art and the San Diego Fine Arts Gallery. She wrote numerous
versions of
her autobiography, Vichyssoise and 33 Commencements, authored her
own
personal newsletter and wrote and illustrated a number of short
stories
and children's books. She died in 2003 at the age of 79.
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