Horatio bigelow biography

Biography of Horatio Bigelow, a Boston Brahmin and Harvard graduate, whose journey took him across the country and to Puerto Rico before he found his.
Lucius Horatio "Ray" Biglow III was an American college football player and coach.
Horatio had two brothers, William DeFord born 1878 and Albert Francis in 1880.

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Lucius Horatio Biglow (1833 - 1909)

LuciusHoratio"Raysh"Biglow

Born in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States

Ancestors

Son of Lucius James (Bigelow) Biglow and Susan Ann (Moser) Biglow

[sibling(s) unknown]

Husband of Amelia Day (Ward) Biglow — married about 26 May 1857 (to about 1875) [location unknown]

Descendants

Father of Lucius Horatio Biglow Jr and Elizabeth Gates (Biglow) Ballard

Died at age 76in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Lucius Horatio "Raysh" Biglow was born on May 26, 1833^[1] in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, to Lucius James Bigelow and Susan Ann (Moser) Biglow. He married Amelia Day Ward^[2] around May 26, 1857, according to descendants. In 1860 he lived in Brooklyn Ward 11, District 3, Kings County, New York, with wife Amelia, daughter May, son Lucius H., and sister Pernelia.^[3] In 1963 he lived at Bedford & Myrtle Aves in Brooklyn, Kings County, and worked as a printer at 2 William St. in New York City.^[4]

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Erastus Brigham Bigelow

American inventor of weaving machines

Erastus Brigham Bigelow (April 2, 1814 – December 6, 1879) was an American inventor of weaving machines.

Beginnings

Erastus Bigelow was born in West Boylston, Massachusetts. He was the son of a cotton weaver, and it was his parents' desire that he should become a physician, but, his father's business not being successful, he was unable to continue his studies, and so turned his attention to inventing.^[1] He showed an inventive genius at the early age of 14, when he invented a machine to manufacture piping cord, for which he received $100. Before he had reached the age of 18, he had devised a handloom for suspender webbing. His work on Stenography, a short manual on shorthand writing, was written and published about this time.^[1] In 1838, he invented a power loom for weaving knotted counterpanes, and later a power loom to weave coach lace and took his brother, Horatio, in with him.

Carpets

In 1839 he contracted to produce a power-loom capable of weaving two-ply ingrain ca

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Horatio ⁹ BIGELOW

1555C.1131 Horatio ⁹ BIGELOW, son ofAlbert Smith (Bert) ⁸ (Horatio Ripley ⁷ (Horatio ⁶ , Abraham ⁵, Abraham ⁴, Thomas ³, Samuel ², John ¹) and Mary (DeFord) BIGELOW, was born 12 January 1877 Cambridge, MA. He grew up in the Back Bay Area of Boston. He graduated Harvard June 28, 1899, and married Mary J. Reise on 03 August 1899, daughter of Augustus and Mary E. (Macdonald) Riese, who was born about 1878 MA. Horatio died 07 Dec 1949 Fluvanna Co., Virginia. (see below)

Children of Horatio and Mary (Reise) Bigelow:

1555C.11311 Horatio, b

1555C.11312 Samuel, b 1911

1555C.11313     Raymond?, b

1555C.11314     John Ripley, b 1903

1555C.11315     Nancy, b 1905 ; m John M. Hudgins (see below)

1555C.11316 Mary DeFord, b 1908

1555C.11317 Molly, b