Author: Bigelow, Abijah
Biography:
BIGELOW, Abijah (1775-1860: WBIS)
pseudonym Garrulus
Born in Westminster MA, he graduated from Dartmouth in 1795 and then studied law in Groton, was admitted to the bar in 1798, and practised in Leominster, where he held various political posts. In 1804 he married Hannah Gardner. He was elected to Congress as a representative for Massachusetts and remained in office from 1810 to 1815: his letters to his wife in those years were published in 1931. He moved to Worcester in 1817 and acted as clerk of the courts of Worcester County from 1817 to 1833; in 1838 he was named a Master in Chancery. He published one more poem, The Sabbath, in Worcester in 1842. (Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005 [2005]; ancestry.com 3 Dec. 2017) HJ