Bigelow, Lucius
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 20, credited to Burlington, VT Unit(s): 5th VT INF Service: enl 8/21/61, m/i 9/16/61, 5SGT, Co. I, 5th VT INF, dis/dsb 9/30/63 [College: UVM 61] See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 09/20/1841, Buckingham, Canada East Death: 03/10/1916 Burial: Elmwood Avenue Cemetery, Burlington, VT Marker/Plot: 228 Gravestone researcher/photographer: Kathy Valloch Findagrave Memorial #: 54367123 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 12/3/1906, VT Portrait?: Guber Collection off-site College?: UVM Veterans Home?: Not Found (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: None DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
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Obituary
Lucius Bigelow
Lucius Bigelow died last evening at 7:30 at the Green Mountain sanitarium. He had been in failing health for a long time, and had not left his room since last April.
Mr. Bigelow was born in Buckingham. P. Q., September 20, 1841. He was graduated from the University of Vermont in the class of 1861, which numbered among its graduates the late Henry Ballard, John Heman Converse, James Bartlett Hammond, the inventor of the Hammond typewriter, Admiral A. S. Kenny, U.S.N., P. Deming, the author, Dr. Buel S. Bigelow and Dr. W. B. Lund of this city. He served as sergeant in the Fifth Vermont Volunteers from August, 1861 to October, 1863.
Mr. Bigelow was associate editor and publisher of the Burlington Times in the 60's, and later editorial writer on the Portland Oregonian and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He was at different times editor of the Rutland Herald and the St. Albans Messenger. He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth T. Cooper of Melrose Highlands, Mass. His brother George H. Bigelow of genial memory died 28 years ago this month. Mr. Bigelow never married.
The funeral service will be held Tuesday afternoon at the Unitarian church parlors, the hour to be announced later. Burial will be in the Elmwood avenue cemetery.
Source: Burlington Daily News, March 11, 1916
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.