Olson's Tree » Hepsibah Bigelow (1779-1886)
Personal data Hepsibah Bigelow
Source 1- She was born on December 15, 1779 in Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.
- She died on March 25, 1886, she was 106 years old.
Attention: Age above 100 years (107).
Household of Hepsibah Bigelow
She is married to Samuel Stowe.
They got married March 16, 1797 at Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, she was 17 years old.
Child(ren):
- Mary Bigelow Stow 1799-1803
- Charles Stowe ± 1806-1808
- William Stowe 1808-1855
Ancestors (and descendant) of Hepsibah Bigelow
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Historical events
Birthday December 15, 1779
- The temperature on December 15, 1779 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
- Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- In the year 1779: Source: Wikipedia
- February 14 » American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
- February 14 » James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
- June 1 » The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins.
- July 6 » Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
- September 23 » American Revolution: John Paul Jones, naval commander of the United States, on board the USSBonhomme Richard, wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
- September 28 » American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
Day of death March 25, 1886
- The temperature on March 25, 1886 was about 12.9 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
- In the year 1886: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
- February 23 » Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of aluminium from the electrolysis of aluminium oxide, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.
- May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
- June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
- July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
- August 31 » The 7.0 Mw Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Sixty people killed with damage estimated at $5–6 million.
- September 4 » American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
Same birth/death day
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- 1832 » Gustave Eiffel, French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower († 1923)
- 1837 » E. W. Bullinger, English minister, scholar, and theologian († 1913)
- 1852 » Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1908)
- 1859 » L. L. Zamenhof, Polish linguist and ophthalmologist, created Esperanto († 1917)
- 1860 » James Braid, Scottish-English surgeon (b. 1795)
- 1869 » Edward Bates, American politician and lawyer (b. 1793)
- 1873 » Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter and illustrator (b. 1810)
- 1907 » Ernst von Bergmann, Latvian-German surgeon and academic (b. 1836)
- 1908 » Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)
- 1914 » Frédéric Mistral, French lexicographer and poet, 1904 Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
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Charles Olson, "Olson's Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/olsons-tree/P2090.php : accessed January 4, 2026), "Hepsibah Bigelow (1779-1886)".