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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Bigelow, Marshall Train, printer, autlior,

was born Oct. 5, 1832, in South Natick, Mass. He was president of the common schools of Cambridge, Mass. He was the author of Punctuation and Other Typographical Matters; and Mistakes in Writing English and How to Avoid Them. He died Dee. 28, 1902, in Cambridge, Mass.

Bigelow, Maurice Alpheus, biologist, educator, author, born Dec. 8, 1872, in Milford Center, Ohio. Since 1903 he has been professor of biology in the teachers college of Columbia university. Since 1904 he has been editor of the Nature Study Review. He is the author of The Teaching of Zoology in the

Secondary School. Bigelow, Melville Madison, lawyer, jurist, author, poet, was born Aug. 2, 1846, in Eaton Rapids, Mich. He is the author of English Procedure in the Norman Period; Law Cases from William I to Richard I ; Law of Torts Law of Bills, Notes and Checques; Law of Wills; Law of Fraud on its Civil Side; The Law of Estoppel and Its Application to Practice; and Leading Cases in the Law of Torts. He has also edited the eighth edition of Story's Conflict of Laws; and published a volume of poems entitled Rhymes of a Barrister.

Bigelow, Poultney, litterateur, author, was

born Sept.

10, 1855, in

New

York; and

is

a

son of .John Bigelow. He is the author of The German Emperor and His Eastern Neighbors; The Borderland of Czar and Kaiser; History of the German Struggle for Liberty White Man's Africa White Man's Asia and



Paddles and Politics Down the Danube. Bigelow, R.R., lawyer, jurist. In 1895 he was chief justice of the supreme court of Nevada. Bigelow, Robert Payne, zoologist, author, was bom July 10, 1863, in Baldwinsville, N. Y. Since 1893 he has been instructor of biology in the Massachusetts institute of technology of Boston; and its librarian since 1895. In 1897-98 he was editor of the American Naturalist. He is the author of a number of technical papers on zoological subjects. Bigelow, Timothy, soldier, was born Aug. 12, 1739, in Worcester, Mass. Hearing of the battle of Lexington he led a company of minutemen to Cambridge. He was also at Valley Forge, West Point, Monmouth and Yorktown. After the war he had charge of the arsenal at Springfield. He was one of the original grantees of Montpelier; and a benefactor of the Leicester academy. He died March 31, 1790, in Worcester, Mass. Bigfelow, Timothy, lawyer, statesman, was born April 30, 1767, in Worcester, Mass. He was an active federalist; was elected to the Connecticut state legislature in 1790 and served there twenty years, eleven years of the time as speaker of the house. He was also a member of the Hartford convention in 1814. He died May 18, 1831, in Medford, Mass. Bigger, Samuel, lawyer, legislator, jurist, governor, was born about 1800 in Warren

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county, Ohio. He was a representative in the Indiana state legislature in 1834 and 1835; and was afterward judge of the circuit court. He was the sixth governor of Indiana in 1840-43. The Indiana hospital was established by his influence. He died in 1845 in Fort

Wayne,

Ind. Biggs, Asa, lawyer, jurist, congressman. United States senator, was born Feb. 4, 1811, in

Williamstown, N.C. In 1835 he was

elect-

member

of the constitutional convention of that state; and in 1840-46 was a member of the state legislature. He was chosen a member of the twenty-ninth congress. In 1854 he again became a member of the state senate. He was elected United States senator in 1854 for six years. In 1858 he became judge of the United States district court of North Carolina. He died March 6, 1878, in

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Norfolk, Va. Biggs, Benjamin T., farmer, congressman, governor, was born Oct. 1, 1821, in Summit Bridge, Del. In 1847 he turned his attention to farming; and was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1852. He subsequently took an interest in railroad operati-

and was elected director in a Maryland company. In 1869-73 he was a representative from Delaware to the forty-first and forons,

ty-second congresses. He was the thirtieth governor of Delaware in 1887-91. He died Dec. 25, 1893, in Middletou, Del. Biggs, Herman, soldier, was born in New York. In 1856 he was brevetted second lieutenant in the tenth regiment New York infantry and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier;

general of volunteers. He died Oct. 11, 1857. Biggs, Herman Michael, physician, scientist, was born Sept. 29, 1859, in Trumansburg, N.Y. In 1882 he received the degree of A.B. from Cornell university; and received the degree of M.D. from the university medical college. Since 1887 he has been professor of therapeutics and clinical medicine in the university and Bellevue hospital medical college of New York City; and since 1892 pathologthe ist and since 1902 chief medical officer in bacteriological laboratory in the health department of New York City. He has made valuable researches on bacteriology; and in preventive medicines. Biggs, Marion, farmer, congressman, was bom May 2, 1823, in Pike county. Mo. In 1853-56 he was sheriff of Monroe county, Mo. He was a member of the California state legislature in 1867-71. In 1887-91 he was a representative from California to the fiftieth and fifty-flrst congresses as a democrat. Biggs, William Henry, clergyman, theologwas born June 23, 1786, in New Milford, Conn. He was pastor of the First church of New Haven in 1813-22; and from 1822 was Dwight professor of didactic theology at Yale. He died March 10, 1858, in New Havian,

en, Conn. Bigler, David, clergyman, bishop, was born Dec. 26, 1806, in Hagerstown, Md. He was a missionary in the West Indies in 1831-36,