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Bigelow died September 15, 1905, at Olympia, the last surviving member of the first territorial legislature. Ann Elizabeth Bigelow died February 8, 1926. The Bigelows had 9 children.
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Richardson Bigelow was born March 24, 1824, in Belleville a hamlet in the township of
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