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
- March 3 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
- June 1 » The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins.
- June 16 » Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
- June 24 » American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
- August 13 » American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- September 23 » American Revolution: John Paul Jones, naval commander of the United States, on board the USSBonhomme Richard, wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
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.
- March 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
- May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
- July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
- 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.
- October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
- November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.
Same birth/death day
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- 1789 » Carlos Soublette, Venezuelan general and politician, 11th President of Venezuela († 1870)
- 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 9, 2026), "Hepsibah Bigelow (1779-1886)".