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.
- March 3 » American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
- May 13 » War of the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
- July 16 » American Revolutionary War: Light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.
- 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.
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.
- January 18 » Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
- 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.
- April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
- May 1 » Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
- May 4 » Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
- June 10 » Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17km long fissure across the mountain peak.
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 February 24, 2026), "Hepsibah Bigelow (1779-1886)".
Charles Olson, "Olson's Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/olsons-tree/P2090.php : accessed February 24, 2026), "Hepsibah Bigelow (1779-1886)".