Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-13
mates, and the two families warm

and the two families warm friends. The deceased leaves two brothers, George W. of this city and John s. Bige1ow of Senneca, Wis. There are also two sisters, Mrs. Cyrus Cheney and Miss Lucy A. Bige1ow, both of North Haven.
 Among the other business interests with which he was connected was the New Ha- ven Carriage company and the National Pipe Bending company, of which he was 
 Probably the most notable affairs that characterized Governor Bigelow's adminis- tratiou' was the Yorktown trip. The First regiment of Hartford, the governors foot to Yorktown to assist in celebrat ing the great battle of that name, and were accompanied by the governor and his staff. His staff consisted of Ad jutant General Harmon; General George H. Ford, commissary; General Camp, pay master; General Harbison, quartermaster; Assistant General s. J. Fox, Colonel Rus sell (now congressman), General Gregory and Colonel Kellam, Rutherford Trow- bridge and Messrs. Rudd and Barrows as aides. General Harbison was afterward succeeded by General E. D. Sloat and Colonel Trowbridge by Colonel Frank DlS0lOW. 1uo 4OThbOWu UhFty was toAOh south on an ocean steamer of the same name, but the party decided to return by rail- The party also visited Charleston and the governor and staff, with 8 num- ber of New Haven citizens attended the great cotton exposition at Atlanta Dur ing the evening reception tendered by Governor Colquitt, Governors Bigelow and Colquitt attended each wearing a suit of dark cotton material. The cotton of which the clothing was made was growing in the field in the morning.
 The funeral of Governor Bigelow will take place at the Church of the Redeemer Wednesday at o'clock. The officers of his staff while he was governor will, by an expressed request of the deceased, attend in a body. The body will lie in state at the church from 12 to 3 o'clock in charge of the staff, who will act as guards of honor.- The funeral cortege under the es- cort of members of his former staff will leave the hotel at 12 o'clock and proceed to the church.
 The service at the church will be brief and simple, Dr. Phillips officiating. The interment will be in the family lot in Ever green cemetery.
 A large number of telegrams and letters expressing sympathy for the family have been received from various places in this and other states. Governor Bigelow's son, Walter, who is in New York and who has been under Dr. Whittemore's care, was too unwell to return to this city from New York yesterday, but is expected home to- day
 Those who served on ex-Governor Bige- lows staff, beside those above men, toned, were: Colonel Russell and Frank P. Bigelow. MT. Frank Tyler, president of the Southern New England Thlephone company, was the late governors execu- tive secretary.
 The late governor usually enjoyed excel lent health, hardly ever having had days sickness until in very recent years. He was, in late years, twice at Hot Springs for the cure of rheumatic trouble. Once when at the Palmer house, Chicago, with Colonel Kellam, he was taken sick with 6 congestive chill, but soon rallied after medical treatment and returned home. The late ex-governor was for two years in his earlier life in Florida, where he superint ended the erection of some ma chinery.
 ACTION TAKEN BY THE LEAGUE. The executive committee of the Repub ican league met last night and adopted the following resolutions:
 In the death of the Hon. Hobart B. Blgelow the the members of the Republican league, in com
 
 state generally, are called upon to mourn ths loss of one whose pure character and honorable life had won universal respect and esteem; To the members of this organization this sac event, so deeply regretted by all, brings peculiar sorrow, because it was among them that tho genial disposition and lovable nature of the deceased had been particularly manifest. As charter member of the league, heartily identified with it's interests from the outset, eve i jealous for the promotion of it's welfare, h death calls for sincere morning and deep regre on the part of each and every member: 0IrvA1 Ttofn clor arcio, off1 esteem in which the memory of the deceased ii held, his portrait in the parlor of the league house be suitably draped in mourning, % and tha in body.
 Hobart B. Bigelow was born in Nortt Haven, New Haven county, on the 16tt day of May, 1884. Upon his fathers sidt he came from the Massachusetts Bigelou stock, family that had made it's record | since colonial days for producing substan | tial, energetic and useful citizens. His mother was Pierpont, 8 descend ant of the Rev. James Pierpont, the second | minister of New Haven and one of tn, | founders of Yale college.
 MT. Bigelow's education was that com mon to the sons of farmers of that time He attended the district school of Nortl Haven and when at about the age of ter ! his father moved to South Egremont l Mass, his education was continued there ! in the same class of school until he wa l able to enter the South Egremont academy where he remained until he was seventeen At this age he entered upon the work O life. He began to learn the trade of ma | chinist with the Guilford Manufacturing ! company. He remained with this compan1 ! until it's failure and, after that, went into | the employ of the New Haven Manufactur | ing company, then under the management 1 of his uncle, Asahel Pierpont of New Ha l ven. Here his apprenticeship was finished | and he passed to the shops of Messrs. I've & Smith, then occupying the factory nov used by the firms of Barnum & Root ant l D. .Frisbie & Co.,, at the lower end of Whit ney avenue adjoining the south side of tn 1 Canal railroad track. MT. Bigelow's busi ness was for nearly twenty years carried on at this place. Until 1861 he hat charge of the machine department as fore man, under both Ives & Smith and thei successors, Wilcox & Gay. In 1861, upol
 the death of MT. Gay, he bought out MI Cyphrian Wilcox's interest in the machin
 shop, and continued in his own name
 Later he acquired of MT. Wilcox the foun l dry connected with the establishment an 1 the business was carried on under tn
 name of the Bigelow Manufacturing com
 pany.
 At this place, under close, careful man
 agement, MT. Bigelow's business grew un
 til there was no longer space for his build
 ings. They had extended along Whitne
 avenue and through the block to Templ
 street, and in 1870 he was compelled t
 remove to wider location.
 He bought track of land on Grape
 vine Point, including disused buildin
 originally built for a machine shop, an
 in this place the business has since bee
 conducted
 Two years prior to his removal, MI
 Bigelow had added department for th
 manufacture of boilers, department fo
 which his esta blishment has since becom
 famous throughout the country.
 1 In 1875 the firm style was made H. F
 Bigelow & Co.,, Henry Bison being receive
 as partner, and in 1877 the partnershi
 was extended by the entrance of Mi
 George s. Barnum. It's preser
 The Bigelow company, organized in 15S
 under a special charter granted by th
 legislature of that year.
 MT. Bigelow's continuous success in hi
 business did not pass unnoticed by hi fellow citizens, and in the period betwee
 1863 and 1881, he was called upon to fill
 variety of public stations. He was
 member of the common council as coun
 cilman in the year 1S63-6 and as Alder
 man 1864-65, under the mayoralty of tn
 late Morris Tyler. He was supervise
 1871-H and filled most acceptably the of
 fee of fire commissioner for the year
 1874 76. He also served one term as repre-