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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsBIGELOW, Lewis
(1785—1838)
BIGELOW, Lewis, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Petersham, Worcester County, Mass., August 18, 1785; was graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1803; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Petersham; member of the State senate 1819-1821; editor of the first seventeen volumes of Massachusetts Reports and of a digest of six volumes of Pickering’s Reports; elected as a Federalist to the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823); moved to Peoria, Ill., in 1831 and continued the practice of law; interested in the real estate business and in the operation of ferry boats; served as justice of the peace; appointed clerk of the circuit court of Peoria County, November 26, 1835, and served until his death in Peoria, Ill., October 2, 1838; interment presumed to be in the Old Centre Cemetery, Petersham, Mass.
Bigelow, Lewis. Address, delivered before the Worcester Agricultural Society
. Worcester: Printed by Manning & Trumbull, 1821.
———. An oration pronounced at Templeton, July 5, 1813, in commemoration of the thirty seventh anniversary of American independence, before the Washington Benevolent Societies in the northern section of the county of Worcester, and other citizens
. Worcester, [Mass.]: Printed by I. Sturtevant, 1813.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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