Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Bigelow, Lyman Herbert August 16, 1878 - 
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Source: The Story of the Builders of Hawaii. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, 1925.
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

LYMAN HERBERT BIGELOW, Territorial Superintendent of Public Works. Both in 
private life and as a public official, Lyman H. Bigelow, superintendent of the 
territorial Department of Public Works and chairman of the Board of Harbor 
Commissioners, has been identified with many of the largest construction 
projects undertaken in Hawaii. Under his direction a territorial harbor 
development program, involving the expenditure of millions of dollars, has 
been carried out, including the modern Honolulu piers and the Kewalo Basin and 
Waimanalo wharves on Oahu, the Hanalei wharf on Kauai, piers and docks at 
Hilo, Hawaii, and harbor developments on Maui and Molokai. His department 
supervised the execution of the great Waikiki reclamation and canal project, 
the rehabilitation of Washington Place and the construction of Waimanu Home, 
the Honolulu Armory, the animal quarantine station and two sections of the 
Volcano road on Hawaii, besides the development of water systems on Oahu and 
other islands.
  Arriving in Hawaii in March, 1911, as a civil engineer and superintendent of 
construction, U.S. Quartermaster Corps, Mr. Bigelow was engaged in the 
improvements of various posts and forts in Honolulu, resigning from the corps 
in 1912 to join the Honolulu Planing Mill as civil engineer and superintendent 
of construction. While with this firm, Mr. Bigelow assisted in the building of 
the coaling station at Pearl Harbor, the Kaimuki reservoir on Wilhelmina Rise, 
barracks at Fort Kamehameha, buildings at Fort De Russy and numerous office 
structures in Honolulu and on the other islands. Entering public life in 1918, 
Mr. Bigelow was appointed superintendent of public works by Governor McCarthy 
and was reappointed in 1922 by Governor Farrington.
  Born in Charlestown, Mass., Aug. 16, 1878, the son of Lyman Haven and Elmira 
J. (Bond) Bigelow, Mr. Bigelow received early technical training at the 
Mechanics Arts High School, Boston, and was graduated from the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology with a B.S. degree in 1901, remaining there for a time 
as instructor in surveying. He was with the Merrimac Paving Co., Lowell, 
Mass., until 1902, going later to the Phoenix Bridge Co., Pennsylvania, as a 
structural draftsman. He entered government service in 1902, acting as sub-
inspector of buildings for the U.S. navy at League Island navy yards, 
Philadelphia, for three years. From 1905 to 1911, Mr. Bigelow was civil 
engineer and superintendent of construction in the Quartermaster Corps, 
U.S.A., at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, leaving that post to come to Hawaii. Mr. 
Bigelow has served as an officer of the National Guard, is a member of the 
Hawaiian Chapter, American Association of Engineers; a Mason, Elk and a member 
of the Commercial Club. He married Henrietta M. Tucker in Honolulu, July 14, 
1914.


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