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 BIGELOW.

BIGELOW,

He was for many years a lecturer in the law school of Boston university, of the University of Michi- gan and of the Northwestern university, Chicago. The degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the Northwestern university in 1896. He devoted himself to literature, and is the author of several works on law, those best known being " Estoppel " (5th ed., 1891); " Elements of Torts" (6th ed., 1896), and "Fraud" (1892). Two of his works on the history of English law, Procedure ia England," were published in Eng- land and received there with marked favor. Another of Mr. Bigelow's books, " Elements of Torts," was adopted as a text-book at the Uni- versity of Cambridge, England, and republished, with proper changes for the English student, by the Cambridge vmiversity press, the only honor of the kind as yet accorded to an American autlior. He is also author of " Rhymes of a Barrister," published in 1884; and he edited several editions of Story on "Equity Jurisprudence," Story on " Conflict of Laws, " and Story on the "Consti- tution."
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BIGELOW, Poultneyf journalist, was born in New York city, Sept. 10, 1855; son of John Bige- low, author. He was graduated from Yale col- lege in 1879, and after taking a course graduated at the law school of Columbia college and in the universities of Germany, where he had as a class- mate William II., afterwards emperor. He was then admitted to the New York bar. He prac- tised but a short time, entering journalism in 1882, as a member of the editorial staff of the New York Herald. He afterwards became editor and proprietor of Outing, and made frequent contributions to the principal journals and maga- zines of the country. He travelled extensively in Europe, made a canoe voyage down the Danube, and contributed to European as well as to American publications. In 1892 he was ex- pelled from Russia while gathering material for a book on that country. In December, 1895, he was sent on a mission to Germany by the New York state insurance department. Among his works are: "The German Emperor" (1889); " The German Emperor and his Eastern Neigh- bors " (1892); " Paddles and Politics down the Danube" (1892); "The Borderland of Czar and Kaiser; Notes fi-om both sides of the Russian Frontier " (1895); " History of the German Strug- gle for Liberty" (1896); "White Man's Africa " (1896); •• The Children of the Nation " (1901).

BIGELOW, Timothy, soldier, was born at Wor- cester, Mass., Aug. 2, 1739. He learned the trade of a blacksmith, and afterwards carried on the business. Being a strong champion of the rights of the colonists, he became associated with the leading patriots of the day. In March, 1773, he

was a member of the local committee of corre- spondence, and in December of the same year he organized the "Political Society." It is said that in these bodies measures were secretly made which broke the control of the Tories in the town. He was a prominent member of the Sons of Liberty and of the Whig club in Boston, becom- ing intimately associated with Warren, Otis, and other leading patriots. During the first two sessions of the provincial congress he acted as a delegate, and when the minute-men of Wor- cester were organized he was elected their leader. On April 19, 1775, he marched to Cambridge, and soon afterwards was commissioned major. So well did he drill the men that General Washing- ton is reported to have remarked, on reviewing the company at Cambridge, " This is discipline, indeed." In September he volunteered in the expedition to Quebec, under Benedict Arnold, and during the expedition was ordered to ascend a mountain to make observations, and the moun- tain has since borne the name of Mount Bigelow. On December 31, while attacking Quebec, he was captured with others, and after eight months' imprisonment was exchanged. He was afterwards given the rank of lieutenant - colonel, and on Feb. 8, 1777, became colonel of the 15th Massachusetts regiment. He was with General Gates at the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga; in the Rhode Island Expedition; at Verplanck's Point; Peekskill; VaUey Forge, and West Point. He was on duty for some time at West Point after the close of the war, and then commanded the national arsenal at Springfield. On returning to his home he found his property gone, and his family involved in debt. He ob- tained a grant of land in Vermont, where the town of Montpelier was afterwards built, but his creditors became impatient, demanding the money, which necessity had forced him to owe them, and which his patriotic services to them and to their coimtry made it impossible for him to pay, and he was thrown into jail, where he died March 31, 1790.

BIGELOW, Timothy, lawyer, was born at Worcester, Mass.. April 30, 1767; son of Timothj- Bigelow, soldier. He learned the printer's trade, served tlirough the Rhode Island campaign with his father in tiie Revolutionary war in 1779. and was graduated at Harvard in 1786. He studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1789 and prac- ticed at Groton, Mass., 1789-1806. He represented Groton in the general court, l792-'7; served as state senator. 1797-1801, and as a member of the council in 1802. and 1820-21. He removed liis law office to Boston in 1806; was a representative in the state legislature. 1804-22. and speaker of the house m 1805. 1808-09, and 1812-18. He died at Medford, Mass., May 18, 1821.