Richard ⁹ BIGELOW

16312.7223 Richard ⁹ BIGELOW, son of Edward Payson ⁸ ( Edward ⁷ , Asa ⁶, David ⁵, David ⁴, Lt. John ³, Joshua ², John ¹) and Mary (ASHLEY) BIGELOW, was born in New York City, NY on 21 January 1878. He married Irma Fredericka Himely on 18 May 1905 at Long Island, NY. She was born 23 November 1881, the dau of Henri Alexandre and Julia (Neilson) Himely. Irma died a widow, 21 February 1974 Millis, MA. Richard had died in Millis 12 December 1948. (Richard was a plant manager with expertise in non-ferrous metals; Degree from Columbia Univ in Electrical Engineering)

Children of Richard and Irma (Himely) Bigelow:

16312.72231t Richard, jr, b 09 June 1906 Stapleton, Long Island co, NY; d 22 Mar 1962 Boston,, MA; m 07 June 1936 Grace Gertrude Slack; 5 children. (see below)

16312.72232t Barbara, b 21 July 1908 Red Bank,, NJ; d _____ ; m 10 Jan 1936 Ralph Orin Ward; 2 children. (see below)

16312.72233t Benjamin, b 09 June 1910 Nutley,, NJ; d 17 March 2006 Tampa, FL?; m 16 Apr 1943 Anne Lehr; 4 children;

16312.72234t Julian Himely, b 19 Mar 1913 Nutley,, NJ; d 17 Feb 2003 Princeton, NJ (see below); m (1) 17 Oct 1943 at Cambridge, MA, Mary Agnes Milward (she b 17 Oct 1942 at Cambridge, MA; d 22 Sept 1985 Princeton, NJ); 3 children; m (2) 20 Mar 1987 Elizbeth Rose Mayer, no children; (see below)

16312.72235 Joan, b 07 June 1920 Brookline, MA; d _____ ; m 01 July 1939 Edmund Burke Fitzhenry (b 1911) (see below)

Sources:
The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol II pg 491 child;
A Bigelow Background, Ashley Bigelow;
Bigelow Society records from censuses and correspondence.

16312.72235 Joan, b 07 June 1920 Brookline, MA; d _____ ;m 01 July 1939 Edmund Burke Fitzhenry (b 1911, son of John J. and Alice ( ) Fitzhenry (see below)

Children, both adopted:
1. Amanda Himely Fitzhenry, b 07 July 1975 Cuzco, Peru; d ____ ;
2. Asa Fitzhenry, b 04 July 1977 El Salvador; d _____ ;

New Note:
Subject: Himely Family
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 06:10:52 -0600
From: "Nancy Smith" < nancys@acsdatasearch.com >

Greetings, I have been in contact with Joan Bigelow through the years and am a descendant from the Himely family my name is Peter Sigismund Brune and I live in suburban Kansas City. This past May I travelled to France and spent time with Jerome Himely exploring our common roots. I remember spending time with Bushnell Bigelow at his farm with my father Percy Julius Brune. I marvel at your website. Best Peter

Note:
Subject: Edward Payson Bigelow
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:21:04 -0700
From: "Edward Bigelow" < masterprecious@worldnet.att.net >

I would like to see if our ancestry links at some point in time. My Great Aunt, (Joan Bigelow) my dads aunt, owns a 90 acre farm in Millis MA and has some of our family history in it. I think I remember the last name Payson being in there somewhere. An old portrait of a man named Doolittle Ashley falls in there somewhere also.
A.S.A.P when I have more info.Apparently my family had gone from England to Cuba(Tobacco Plantations) to the U.S.(Millis MA) and purchased the 1/4 farm.Nice to see the Bigelow name out there.
More:
I am unsure of a lot of things such as exact birthdates etc, but here is what I do know: Brother of Joan Bigelow( My great aunt I guess) Richard Bigelow (My grandfather) His wife Grace (Slack)Bigelow.Their children,Richard Jr died in an automobile accident in the early sixties.My father Ashley Bigelow.His sisters: Kate(Bigelow)Dupre,Betsy(Bigelow)Padula,and Victoria(Bigelow)Lorenzo. Now my immediate family from 1st to last (More familiarly Bigelow used names): James Payson Bigelow, Brian Ashley Bigelow, Edward Marc Bigelow (Me), Janice Heidi Bigelow, Michelle Himely Bigelow. Parents are Ashley Bigelow and Sandra Lee (Boschen)Bigelow. Both grew up in Norfolk MA. Norfolk MA is one town over from Millis MA where the Bigelow farm still exists. Children of Joan Bigelow and probable heirs to the Millis Estate are the adopted Amanda Bigelow and Asa Bigelow. One of these children was adopted from Venezuela and the other from Chile.Well thats all for now.If you need any more specifics from my side let me know. I will try to get birthdates and so forth of my elder relatives and their places of birth as they become available.Contact me anytime. Sincerely,
Master Edward M. Bigelow

16312.72231. Richard ¹⁰ BIGELOW, son of Richard ⁹ etc. was born 09 June 1906 at Stapleton, Long Island co, NY; He married on 07 June 1936 Grace Gertrude Slack. She was born 28 Jan 1907 West Roxbury, MA, dau of Francis H. and Grace Gertrude (Brown) Slack. Richard died in 22 Mar 1962 Boston, Suffolk, MA.

Children of Richard and Grace (Slack) Bigelow:

16312.72231.1 Richard, III, b 28 Aug 1938 Roxbury,, MA; d 1960 auto accident; had wife, but unknown.

16312.72231.2 Elizabeth Carver "Betsy", b 13 Feb 1941 Framingham, MA (Red Bank, NJ?); d _____ ; m (1) 05 Sept 1961 Gerald Lee Nordstrom (div); m (2) 28 May 1983 Ralph Anthony Padula;

16312.72231.3 Ashley, b 28 Jan 1943 Natick, MA; d _____ ; m _ Mar 1963 Sandra Lee Boschen; Norfolk, MA; 5 children (see above)

16312.72231.4 Kate Dufferin, b 07 Feb 1944 Natick,, MA; d _____ ; m (1) Sept 1959 Robert Daniels (div); m (2) 11 June 1977 Robert J. Dupre; 1 child

16312.72231.5 Victoria, b 21 Jan 1947 Natick,, MA; d _____ ; m 09 June 1979 Edward Frederick Lorenzo; 1 child.

(vnc08.jpg) Left to right: Julian Bigelow, Herman Goldstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and John von Neumann at Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.

16312.72234t Julian Himely ¹⁰ Bigelow, son of Richard ⁹ etc., was born 19 March 1913 Nutley,, NJ; d 17 Feb 2003 Princeton, NJ; m (1) 17 Oct 1943 at Cambridge, MA, Mary Agnes Milward (she b 16 December 1915 at Cambridge, MA; d 22 Sept 1985); She was the dau of James and Alice (Corbett) Milward. m (2) 20 Mar 1987 Elizbeth Rose Mayer (b 22 May 1915 Somerville, MA, dau of John and Maria (Bettio) Mayer, no children; Even more exciting is an older relative whom I believe is still alive named Julian Bigelow. This brilliant man who I believe was affiliated with some Ivy league college in L.A. supposedly worked with Albert Einstein.I will have to look into this more and I will get back to you. 3 children
Children:

16312.722341 Alice Corbett, b 16 Feb 1952 Prnceton, NJ; d ______ ; m Nicholas Brett; residence London, England

16312.722342 Marc Felix, b 15 Nov 1956 Princeton; d ______ ; m 17 Nov 1979 Allison Stepp; residence Walcott, VT; 2 children: Jasmine Paij and Ashlea Cheyenne Bigelow, both born VT;

16312.722343 Nicholas Pierre; b 26 Dec 1958 Princeton; d ______ ; m 26 July 1981 Judith Lorraine Anderson; residence Richford, NY

<>Sources:
http://www.physics.umd.edu/robot/neumann.html

(vnc18.jpg)3.von Neumann, Julian Bigelow, James Pomerence, and Herman Goldstein

(vnc03.jpg) Left to right: James Pomerence, Julian Bigelow, von Neumann and Herman Goldstein

(vnc07.jpg) Left to right: unknown, unknown, Gerald Estrin, unknown, J. Robert Oppenheimer, unknown, Julian Bigelow, Norman Emslie, James Pomerence, Hewitt Crane, and von Neumann

16312.72234t Julian Himely, b 19 Mar 1913 Nutley,, NJ; d 17 Feb 2003 Princeton, NJ; m 17 Oct 1943 at Cambridge, MA, Mary Agnes Milward (she b 17 Oct 1942 at Cambridge, MA); 3 children

Subject: [IP] Julian Bigelow, 89, Computer Pioneer, Is Dead
From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:21:28 -0500
From: "Ted Dolotta" <Ted@Dolotta.ORG>
He was truly there at the creation ...
In 1955, he helped me write my very first computer program. I no longer remember what the program did,
but I do remember the excitement when I got it debugged and running on the IAS machine in that squat building
on Olden Lane across from the Institute.
Ted Dolotta
P.S. The print version of this has a great picture of Julian with Herman Goldstine, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and John van Neumann in front of the IAS machine.
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February 22, 2003
Julian Bigelow, 89, Computer Pioneer, Is Dead
By JOHN MARKOFF
Julian Bigelow, a mathematician and electrical engineer who was a pioneer in the fields of cybernetics and computing, died on Monday in
Princeton, N.J., where he lived. He was 89.
In 1946, when John von Neumann set out to design and build a stored-program computer at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, he
contacted the mathematician Norbert Weiner for a recommendation for a chief engineer. Dr. Weiner suggested Mr. Bigelow, with whom he had
collaborated during World War II on the creation of fire-control systems for weapons.
The resulting computer, which was known as the IAS and which was assembled beginning in June 1946, was one of a handful of computers
like ENIAC, EDVAC, Whirlwind, EDSAC and Univac 1 whose construction brought the dawn of the information age.
It was the IAS machine, however, whose basic design became the template for the modern computers that are now ubiquitous worldwide.
Fifteen clones of the original IAS machine were built. The copies had names like Johniac and Maniac and they appeared all over the world,
including Russia and Israel.
"A tidal wave of computation power was about to break and inundate everything in science and much elsewhere, and things would never be
the same afterwards," Mr. Bigelow wrote in a short history of the project published in 1980.
Before beginning his career as one of the world's first computer architects, Mr. Bigelow was the co-author of a seminal paper with Dr.
Weiner and Arturo Rosenblueth, titled "Behavior, Purpose and Teleology," which advanced a set of unifying principles about behavior
that would come to serve as the foundation for the field of cybernetics, which studies the way mechanical, biological and electronic systems communicate and interact.
Mr. Bigelow had the practical engineering insight that throughout his career played a crucial role in linking the work of leading theoreticians like Dr. Weiner and Dr. von Neumann to the real world.
"In a way, Julian was the missing link," said George Dyson, a researcher who is now a visiting scholar at the Institute of Advance Study.
The article made a strong impression on a small group of intellectuals and scientists, and it led to the formation of a small group called
the Teleological Society. That group in turn led to a group of scientific meetings called the Macy Conferences, in which Mr. Bigelow
participated.
Sponsored by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the conferences brought together an influential group of scientists and thinkers, including
Dr. Wiener, Warren McCulloch, Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead and Dr. von Neumann. The conferences were later known as the cybernetics
conferences and ultimately laid the groundwork for much of the future research in a diverse range of sciences from biological physics to
computer science.
When Mr. Bigelow arrived at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1946, the idea of Dr. von Neumann's computer was meeting stiff resistance
from the institute's pure theoreticians.
"The folks at the institute, especially some of the mathematicians, were outraged that people who got their hands dirty doing things like
computing would invade their sanctuary," recalled Willis Ware, an electrical engineer who was hired to work with Mr. Bigelow on the
construction of the IAS computer.
Tensions eased later, after the theoreticians discovered that the new computer crowd had useful skills.
"They found out we knew how to build and repair hi-fi equipment, and we became more popular," he said.
In a world that was known for brilliant intellects and large egos, Mr. Bigelow was remembered as someone who was remarkably unassuming and
yet was tremendously creative and resourceful.
"He was thrilled by the engineering challenges that we faced," said Hewitt Crane, a computer designer who was hired away from I.B.M. to
work on the IAS computer in the early 1950's. "He was always like a little kid with a smile on his face."
He recalled a parade down one of the main streets of Princeton that accompanied Mr. Bigelow's house when he moved it from one side of town
to another. It was a struggle to persuade the city government to permit him to move it, but he cut it into several pieces and measured the house precisely to ensure that it would fit on the streets.
Mr. Bigelow studied electrical engineering and mathematics at M.I.T. and received a master's degree.
He was an avid airplane pilot and flew regularly into his 80's, when he renovated a plane as a hobby.
He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; two sons, Nicholas, of Rochester, and Marc, of Wolcott, Vt.; and a daughter, Alice, of London.
Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company

16312.72232 Barbara ¹⁰ Bigelow, b 21 July 1908 Red Bank,, NJ; d _____ ; m 10 Jan 1936 Ralph Orin Ward (b 18 Nov 1905 NE, son of Samuel and Ella (Forrell) Ward); Ralph was Aeronautical Engineer; Barbara was Public Relations for A.F.I.A.
2 children:

16312.72232.1 Merredith Ward, b 03 Sept 1941 NJ; d ______ ;

16312.72232.2 Stephen Ashley Ward, b 08 May 1943 NJ; d _____ ; m 01 Aug 1966 Deborah Meyer; 3 children: Stephen Ashley jr, Rebecca Fraser, and Jason Bigelow Ward (FTM)

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