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Jefferson County Biographies
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Jefferson County
History
New York History
Biographies
History at Rays Place
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Bigelow, George, W., was born in Ellisburgh, N. Y., February 27, 1837, a son of Horatio N. and Ann (Arnold)
Bigelow. Horatio N. was born in Massachusetts, and moved to Ellisburgh on to the fam where J. K. Bigelow now lives.
Mr. Bigelow's grandfather, Jonathan Bigelow, lived and died in Massachusetts. He was a Republican in politics and
he and his wife were members of the Baptist church. George W. Bigelow was educated in the common school and follows
farming, owning 126 acres of land, which is worked by his son. Mr. Bigelow has been twice married, the first time
in 1859. to Frank E. Northrop, who died in 1862, and in 1864 he married Julia W. Terry, by whom he has three children:
Frank W., George, Jr., and H. N. Frank is employed as bookeeper by the Western Electric Company in Chicago. Mr.
Bigelow is a Republican in politics, a member of Rising Light Lodge No. 637, F. & A. M., and of Union Grange
No. 5 of Belleville. He is a member of the Baptist church and his wife of the Methodist. He has been for about
ten years one of the trustees of Union Academy. Mr. Bigelow's father, Horatio N. Bigelow, married Waitie A. Arnold,
October 13, 1831. He was born November 7, 1805, and died in 1885. His wife was born November 19, 1813, and died
in November, 1871. Their children were: Emily F., born April 10, 1833; George W., born February 27, 1837; Almena
E., born April 17, 1840; James K. P., born February 10, 1846, and Fannie A., born April 15, 1855. He married, second,
Mrs. Cecelia Tilton in 1876; she is still living.
Source:
Our County and it's people
a descriptive work on Jefferson County, New York
Edited by: Edgar C. Emerson
The Boston History Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1898
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