News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-09-10

the mother of this family died
three years since, at the ripe age
of 90. Hon. Jonathan Bigelow
engaged in the shoe business in
ROXbury, became a member of
the Legislature of Massachusetts
from WatertOwn, and is now q
Well-knOWn commission dealer
in Boston. Eiakim and Newell
are the only members OF the fam
lily now living in Stowe.
Eliakim Bigelow was born in
1881, and since he was ten years
old has been an almost COntinu-
Gus resident of Stowe. At the
age of 16 he entered his brothers
retail store in ROXbury, Mass,
and remained four years. In
1852 he went to California by
the Isthmus route, and engaged
in mining on the middle fork of
the American river three years,
and the fourth year worked out
on farms. He returned to Stowe
in 1856, and three years later
married S. Jane Handy and
moved on to his present farm of
125 acres, three miles from Stowe
village. His wife died III 1864,
and a year later he married
Sarah Louise, daughter of Capt..
Ebenezer BarroWs. BY the first
marriage were two daughters
Mary, resident at Baltimore,
Md, and Addie at Salem, Mass.
Edwin p. BigeloW, a son by
the second marriage, is a student
at the medical department of the
University of Vermont; Annie is
a teacher in town, also Susie,
who was a graduate of Johnson
Normal School, class of %.
Mr.. Bigelow has an excellent
sugar place of $50 trees, well
rugged, from which he usually
makes the unusually large
amount of from $500 to $500
pounds of good quality. He is
a Methodist in religious prefer
ence, and as a Republican repre-
scented Stowe in 1894. He is q
good type of the moral, in
dustrious, substantial Vermont
farmer of elderly life.
With him resides Capt. Ebcn-
ezer BarrOWs, now in his 91st
year, the oldest and one of the
most remarkable men in town.
He was born in Woodstock, w.,
in 1895, and came with his faith
er's family to Stowe two years
later. He was an early and
active member of the Stowe
Light Infantry Company, rose
to the rank of Captain, and on
his discharge was the Oldest
commissioned officer in the regI-
ment. He returned to Wood
stock, and was called from the
management of the poor farm
there in 1860 to become man
ager of the poor farm at Morris
town, jointly owned by the three
towns of Johnson, Stowe and
MorristOwn, where he remained
five years. Capt. BarrOWs is
full of good hunlOr and animal
spirits, his memory is clear and
he has enjoyed remarkably good
health until quite recently. Like
Gladstone, he has found health
and recreation in chopping trees
Since he was 90 he has cut dOWr
trees about three feet across the
stump, and he deserves to be
called "The Grand Old Man" O
Stowe.
Newell Bigelow was born il
1882 and has been a constant
resident of the town since 1910
aside from one year spent in his
brothers store. In 1854 he mar
ried Charlotte, daughter of Jose
plus Mum of Stowe, and afte1
some ten years experience il
farming elsewhere, they settled
on the old Mum farm, where
they now reside. This is a POO
acre farm and carries from is tC
20 COWS. There is a fine sugar
place of some 100 trees, will
tin buckets and all the latest i'm
provements, and hemakes a frs
rate article that meets a ready
sale in 1O-pound pals at Salem