Dr. Leslie Lawson 9 BIGELOW
15923.7B91 Dr. Leslie Lawson 9 BIGELOW, son
of Timothy Lawson 8 (Timothy C. 7 , Israel 6 ,Isaac 5, Isaac 4,Isaac 3,Samuel 2, John1) Bigelow and Mary
Louise (BIGELOW) BIGELOW, was born 15 April 1880 at Camp Chase, Madison
co, OH. Leslie Lawson went on to medical school, his brothers joined their
father at the Naughten Street firm. Leslie Lawson graduated from East High
School, possibly in 1898, and then attended Ohio State University for one
year. But there are no institutional records available for either of these
events. Records do indicate that he spent 8 years at Harvard University, obtaining
an AB in 1903, an MD in 1906 and completing a 2-year surgical internship
at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1908.
Upon returning to Columbus in 1908, Dr. Bigelow
married Elizabeth Cole and opened a private practice at 185 E. State Street.
He soon became involved with Children's Hospital located at Miller and Fair
Avenues, 'not far from his home at 45 W. Franklin Park Avenue, which he purchased
in 1913. Dr. Bigelow was one of the few physicians able to afford free time
to Children's Hospital while he was establishing his private practice. (see below) In 1940, Dr. Bigelow stepped down as chief
of the medical staff at Children's Hospital but remained head of the surgery
department until his appointment as dean of the College of Medicine in March
1942. His tenure was abbreviated by his sudden death in January 1943. OSU
President, Howard L. Bevis stated that during Bigelow's tragically brief tenure
as dean, he guided the college into an accelerated program that hastened the
preparation of students for military service in WWII, while coping at the
same time with increased demand for hospital services.
Children of Leslie L. and Elizabeth (Cole) Bigelow:
159237B911 Leslie, b _____ ; d _____ ;
159237B912 Edmund, b _____ ; d _____ ;
159237B913 Robert G., b _____ ; d _____ ;
Sources:
Bigelow Society Genealogy Vol. II Page 420.
Bigelow Society historian/genealogist records.
Page 24 April 1986 FORGE: The Bigelow society Quarterly Vol. 15,
No. 2
Page 49 July 2001 FORGE: The Bigelow society Quarterly Vol. 30, No. 3.
Don's article from Forge: http://bigelowsociety.com/TBHorses.html
Note:
Subject: Possible missing information for you
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 20:04:02 EST
From: Alexis (Bigelow) Fangmann Tigandtheboysmom@aol.com
Someone was doing some research on my Grandfather Leslie L. Bigelow
and sent my mother Marian P. Bigelow (widow of Robert G.) information from
your site on Timothy C. Bigelow. It showed who he married and the numerous
children he had, though many passed away early.
I note that Timothy L. 8/27/1854 married Mary Helen ___ . I presume
that means you are unsure of her maiden name.
Apparently is was also Bigelow(?) I don't know from what branch - hopefully
distant! But apparently the sons of Timothy had great difficulty convincing
people they did know their Mother's maiden name and it was Bigelow. You
might want to check that out!
All of Leslie L. Bigelow's direct family have passed away
Leslie - Edmund and Robert G. as well as Elizabeth his wife
Just thought you might be interested
Alexis (Bigelow) Fangmann
Biography of
Leslie L. Bigelow, M.D.
Leslie L. Bigelow was born in Camp Chase, Ohio, April 15, 1880, son
of T. Lawson and Mary Helen Bigelow. He received his A. B. from Harvard College
in 1903 and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1906. He married Elizabeth
Cole on June 8th, 1909 and had three sons: Edmund Lawson, Leslie Cole and
Robert Gibbons. Bigelow taught at Starling-Ohio Medical College from 1912-1914.
He then taught surgery at The Ohio State University Medical School, attaining
full professorship in 1938. He also served as surgeon at Grant, St. Francis
and Children's Hospitals, where he was Chief of Staff for 25 years. He was
one of the original founders of the Ohio Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis,
a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1914, the Ohio State Medical
Association President from 1927 to 1928. Dr. Bigelow was also a former President
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Association of Surgeons and member of the Columbus
Medical Academy of Medicine. In 1942 he was appointed Acting Dean of the OSU
College of Medicine. He died suddenly on January 15, 1943.
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Sources: The Ohio State University College of Medicine, vol. 1, 1934.
The Ohio State University College of Medicine, vol. 2, 1961.
The Ohio State Medical Association Journal, v. 39, 1943, pg.172-173.
FORGE: The Bigelow Society Quarterly
Vol.30, No.3
Dr. Leslie Lawson 9 Bigelow
Timothy Lawson 8 (Timothy C. 7 , Israel 6 ,Isaac 5, Isaac 4,Isaac 3,Samuel 2, John1) Bigelow
By Samuel Meites, Ph.D., Columbus OH
In 1919, Leslie Lawson Bigelow, M.D., chief of
the medical staff and of the department of surgery at the Columbus [Ohio]
Children's Hospital, said that it was wrong for a community to support a
charitable hospital that did not obtain the best known and most successfrl
men on its staff. "Rarely will you find a medical man in our older,
larger, eastern communities who has risen to and gamed a large practice who
does not portion of his time and effort to charity in a free hospital," he
said. Yet he retained x~ that the hospital should not become an mark for
those who could afford to pay, and lose the esteem of the medical profession.
Lawson Bigelow [15923.7B91] was born 15 April 1880
at Camp Chase, Madison County, OH. His grandfather, Timothy Clippinger Bigelow
(1819-1876), was a breeder of horses who eventually joined Dr. Marcus
Brown of Circleville OH to form Brown, Bigelow & Co. [not in any way
connected with the Minnesota firm, Brown & Bigelow, of the calendar fame]
for the purpose of buying and selling horses In 1851, Dr. Brown had visited
France and brought back a Percheron stallion, an outstanding draft horse
of the era and a competitor of the Clydesdale. The Percheron horse became
popular in Ohio and Timothy was known as one of the foremost horsemen of
his time.
Timothy Clippinger Bigelow's family had moved to
Plain City, Madison County, OH about 1829 from Lancaster County, PA where
Timothy was born. In 1838, Timothy married Hannah Marshall and they had 12
children, of whom five survived to adulthood. Timothy became the proprietor
of the Four Mile House, so called because it was four miles west of Columbus.
The Four Mile House had been a traveler's lodge on the old National Road
(Broad St. West, Highway 40) since pre-Civil War days. It was probably located
between the current Chase and Roys Avenues. By 1880, it needed repairs,
and it was razed in 1913.
Camp Chase was created on a federally leased 160-
acre field south of the Four Mile House. All who lived in that area were part
of the Camp Chase postal zone. At one time during the Civil War the camp
housed 27,000 Union troops, and the prison held 9,243 Confederates. We have
no information on when Timothy and his family moved to the Camp Chase area.
It seems likely that they lived in the Four Mile House.
Timothy Lawson Bigelow, son of Hannah
(Marshall) and Timothy Clippinger Bigelow, was born 27 August 1854 [d. 1915]
in Plain City. On 27 March 1879, he married his cousin, Mary Bigelow [1857-1935],
daughter of Mary (White) and Hosea Ballou Bigelow [15923.7E]. They had three
sons, Leslie Lawson, Hosea Bradley [1881-1930] and Merrill Loving [1883-1948].
Like his father, Timothy Lawson Bigelow was a horse
breeder for several years. In 1881 he became a partner in the Columbus firm
of Engeike and Bigelow, a "job wagon line" that specialized in the hauling
and storage of household goods, machinery, pianos, etc.; it also dealt in
coal. The partnership lasted 26 years until 1907, when Timothy became the
sole owner. The firm then became T. L. Bigelow & Sons Co. It was located
on east Naughten Street (19, 21, 23 and later 31) with stables nearby. Timothy
and his family lived at 1288 Bryden Road.
All three Bigelow sons apparently obtained advanced
education. While Leslie Lawson went on to medical school, his brothers joined
their father at the Naughten Street firm. Leslie Lawson went on to medical
school, his brothers joined their father at the Naughten Street firm. Leslie
Lawson graduated from East High School, possibly in 1898, and then attended
Ohio State University for one year. But there are no institutional records
available for either of these events. Records do indicate that he spent 8
years at Harvard University, obtaining an AB in 1903, an MD in 1906 and completing
a 2-year surgical internship at Massachusetts General
Hospital in 1908.
Upon returning to Columbus
in 1908, Dr. Bigelow married Elizabeth Cole and opened a private practice
at 185 E. State Street. He soon became involved with Children's Hospital located
at Miller and Fair Avenues, 'not far from his home at 45 W. Franklin Park
Avenue, which he purchased in 1913. Dr. Bigelow was one of the few physicians
able to afford free time to Children's Hospital while he was establishing
his private practice.
He served as an assistant to Dr. James F. Baldwin,
then a leading surgeon in Columbus, and the founder of Grant Hospital in 1900,
as well as a surgical consultant to Children's Hospital. Perhaps as early
as 1911, Dr. Bigelow was a surgeon, later chief surgeon to the Hocking Valley
Railroad, and surgeon with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
The board of trustees at Children's Hospital formally
appointed Dr. Bigelow to the surgical staff in 1910 and later refeeeed to
him as the secretary of the medical staff. By 1915, he was chief of staff.
Dr. Bigelow was also on the surgical staff at the charitable St. Francis Hospital
as well as at Grant Hospital, Protestant (White Cross) Hospital, and at the
Ohio State University (OSU) College of Medicine when it opened in 1914. He
was actively involved in teaching surgery to OSU medical students beginning
as instructor in 1914 through his time as a full professor from 1938-43,
particularly at St. Francis Hospital.
Dr. Bigelow's free services to Children's Hospital
were unparalleled among his medical colleagues. These services as a general
surgeon and chief of staff were in keeping with the needs of a charitable
institution built on the foundation of a triumvirate of extraordinary public-spirited
Columbus citizens: the board of trustees, the women's board and its auxiliaries,
and the volunteer physician staff.
Dr. Bigelow authored six scientific papers which
were published between the years 1920-30. It is a tribute to his interests
and ingenuity that he could publish any at all, in view of his responsibilities
as a teacher, a practicing surgeon at five hospitals, as well as an absence
of financial and physical resources needed to conduct research. His dozen
or so non-scientific publications were centered on social and economic problems
adversely affecting the medical profession, medical ethics and the encroachment
of governmental and other institutions on private medical practice.
After 32 years of service, Dr. Bigelow gave his
valedictory address at the 47th annual open meeting of the hospital's board
of trustees on January 25, 1940. He said, "What we are trying to do here,
all of us who work for the Children's Hospital, quite simply, is to be kind
and generous to little children who are in need of help; and that in a world
where there is so much unkindness and little generosity is a very important
thing."
Earlier in his life before the Great Depression
struck the nation in 1929, one would think that perhaps Dr. Bigelow was more
an angel of wrath when he served as President of the Ohio State Medical Association
in 1927-28. His long inaugural address was a bilious attack on what he perceived
as the growing intrusion of state and federal government into private medical
practice, its paternalistic jnj~~ngemert on "individualism" eroding doctor-patient
relations, and the physician's economic stability. He deplored indiscriminate
"free" services including immunizations and diagnostic tests not totally restricted
to indigents, whether offered by public health agencies or free clinics.
Earlier he condemned the social worker's practice of offering medical services
without prior consultation with the physicians involved. His gratuitous professional
services and characteristic gentle kindness and sense of humor were undisturbed
by his philosophic convictions.
In 1940, Dr. Bigelow stepped down as chief of the
medical staff at Children's Hospital but remained head of the surgery department
until his appointment as dean of the College of Medicine in March 1942. His
tenure was abbreviated by his sudden death in January 1943. OSU President,
Howard L. Bevis stated that during Bigelow's tragically brief tenure as dean,
he guided the college into an accelerated program that hastened the preparation
of students for military service in WWII, while coping at the same time with
increased demand for hospital services.
Dr. Meites is a former director of clinical chemistry at Clinical Laboratory,
Chilaren's Hospital, and professor emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, at
the Ohio State University College of Medicine. He gathered this material to
serve as a basis for an article in the Columbus Children's Hospital publication,
Pediatric Directions.
Modified - 12/20/2005
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