Milford chronicle., 1911-12-22

JOHN BIGELOW
DIESAT ACE OF 81
Noted Author ard Diplomat
Passes Away
.HAO DISTINGUISHED CAREER
He Was Stricken With Ailment Incl.
dent to Old Age, and After Three
Days Sueeumbed.

e Days Sueeumbed.
John Bigelow. the venerable dilo-
mat, historian, author and Dublicist,
died Of a kidney disease at his home
in New York. He was ninety-tour
years old.
Mr. Bigelow died in the old-fashion-
ed house on Gramercy Park that had
> long been his residence. Three days
ago he suffered a return of an ailment
incident to advanced age, which at
tackled him last June at his summer
home in Highland Falls. For more
than two days be suffered intense
pain, but eight or ten hours before
death there came a partial paralysis
OF the senses. For several hours he
lay smiling at those about him, but
unable to speak
At the bedside were two of his four
children, Major Bigelow and Miss
/ Grace Bigelow, and his granddaughter
One OF the first to be notified of Mr..
Bigelow's death was Andrew Carnegie, |
whoes birthday, Nov. 25, comedies
with that of the aged diplomat Tbe I
two were close friends, and they spent
part Of their last joint birthday to.
gether at Mr.. Bigelow's residence. as
had been their custom for several |
years.
All blgeioW was born at Malden-on-
hudson, Ulster County NJ Y. Nov. 25,
1871 He Graduated from Union col
lese IN 1885. From this college and
from Racine and the University of the
CltyyGf New York he took the Ii. d.
H1 was admitted to the New York bar
"a 1889.
Nearly forty years ago he was sec
retary of state OF New York. His first
office was that of inspector of Sing
Sing prison. He gave as much time
to writing and economical study as he
did to the law, and was editor of the
New York Evening Post from lS49 to
1861.
Mr.. Bigelow edited the Writings
and Speeches of Samuel J. Tilden,"
THE Writing of Benjamin Franklin"
and wrote a Life of William Cullen :
Bryant"
Some Of his later writings were
THE Mystery of Sleep The Useful :
Life a Crown to the Simple Life" :
Our ex-Presidents: What Shall we Do a
for Them? What Shall They Do For +
Us?" and many extensive magazine
articles +,
Mr.. Bigelow was a member of the Z,
Century Association and was in 1902 :,
president of the trustees Of the New :
York Public library He was married c
o Jennie Poultney, and his children :
ire Poultney, Grace, John, Jr., and
Mrs. Butler K Harding.
He was sent as consul to France
n 1861 by President Lincoln, and in
S65 he served as envoy extraordinary 7
md minister plenipotentiary to that
ountry. 1t was while living in Paris
hat he secured the original manu-. v
cript of the autobiography of Benia- D
min Franklin. which he published in t.
$685. n
Mr.. Bigelow's public services,
hronologically arranged, we're: Prison in
Inspector. 1856; editor New York n,
,vening Post, 1S49-G1: consul at Paris, re
S6l-64; minister to France, 1S6467; NJ
hartman New York canal investigat- W
lg committee, 1875; secretary OF 10
tate, New York, 1857. He was ex.
cutor of the Samuel J. Tnden estate. of
resident of the New York Public IL ny
rary trustees and of the Aslor Til N
en- and Lenox foundations; trustee Of 10
le Metropolitan Museum of Art, nr
resident Of the Tilden trust, presi M
ent of the Century Association and 90
iember of the American Academy of
rts and Letters, as well as OF various
istorical societies.
His complete public works are:
Jamaica in 1850, or the Effects Of M;
iXteen Years Of Freedom on a Slave
olony'; France and Hereditary
onarchy"; Some Recollections of M,
dward Laboulyae," wit and Wis tv
I'm of the Haytians," "Molinos. the We
uietist," Writings and Speeches Of
imuel J. Tilden,' The Life of Ben int
min Franklin" THE Complete inn
orks of Benjamin Franklin" ca1
france and the Confederate Navy" ba,
The Bible That Was Dead and Is
i've Again" Life of William Cullen 6sl
'yant," Life of Samuel ]. Tilden." COZ
he Mystery of Sleep" The Su-
eme Court Of the United States and
e Electoral Commission" "The Pro D''
ium, or What of Man Is not His Z
vn Gladstone, Morley and the ne
'nfederate Loan of 1868, THE Use sq'
Life, Crown to the Simple Life" wa
What Shall We DO for Our ex-Presi- Sal
nts and What Shall They Do For wit
b" Peace Given as the World Civ Gle
b, or the Portsmouth Treaty and It's
rst Years Fruist," Letters and Lit
iry Memorials of Samuel ]. Tilden," F