BIO: Lebbus I. BIGELOW, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 184-185.
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  L. I. BIGELOW, M.D., McConnellstown, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born 
at Washington Mills, Ia., March 30, 1869.  Northboro, Mass., December 
15, 1839, and was a son of Dr. L. Loomis Bigelow, a well known 
physician of that town and State. [sic] He received his early education 
in his native State, and having previously read medicine under his 
father, he entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which 
institution he was graduated with honor. After his graduation he 
removed to Westmoreland county, Pa., where he practiced for a short 
time, but shortly after he went to Iowa, making his home at Washington 
Mills, where he built up a very extensive practice. Nine years after he 
came east again and resided at Belleville, Mifflin county, Pa., where 
he followed the profession for seven years. He died September 15, 1882, 
leaving a wife, several children, and many friends to mourn his loss. 
He was a man of the highest honor, strictest integrity, whom to know 
was to admire and revere. He was a Democrat of the old school and a 
member of the I. O. O. F. At Belleville he married Eva E., daughter of 
Jesse W. Hortman, a blacksmith of that place. Their children are: L. 
I.; Jesse H., artist in Belleville; Eliphaz Custer, an artist; Mary C.; 
Julia; Frederick; and Katie, who died young. Mrs. Bigelow resides in 
Belleville with her family.
  L. I. Bigelow attended the Belleville schools, graduating in 1885, 
after which he taught school for one term. Desiring to study a 
profession, he read medicine with his uncle, Dr. Brown A. Bigelow, from 
whose office he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
Baltimore, Md. From this celebrated institution he was graduated in the 
spring of 1891, after which he attended a course of lectures at 
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Thus splendidly equipped for 
his work, he took up his residence in McConnellstown. Dr. Orlady having 
died six months previous, Dr. Bigelow succeeded him, and has built up a 
very extensive practice, second to none in the county. During his five 
years' residence in McConnellstown he has performed successfully many 
difficult operations. He makes a specialty of plastic operations, 
grafting on even toes and fingers with marked success. Although the 
Doctor is yet a young man, his evident ability, together with his 
kindness and courtesy, have easily won for him an enviable place in the 
minds and hearts of the many persons with whom he comes in contact. He 
is a worthy son of a worthy sire. For four generations there has been a 
doctor in the family, each one of whom has made a name for himself in 
the profession. Dr. Bigelow is a member of the Knights of the Golden 
Eagle, No. 308, McConnellstown. He votes the Democratic ticket.

1880 Union Township, Mifflin County census -
Eliphaz Bigelow, 38  
Eve E. Bigelow, 34  
Elizabeth C. Bigelow, 13  
Lebbeus I. [or J.] Bigelow, 10  
Jesse H. Bigelow, 9  
Eliphaz C. Bigelow, 5  
Mary C. Bigelow, 3  
Julia F. Bigelow, 8M