Person:Reuben Bigelow (2)

Name	Dr. Reuben Miles Bigelow
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	6 Apr 1807	Peru, Bennington, Vermont, United States
Education^[4]	1831	Williamstown, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United StatesWilliams College
Marriage	19 Oct 1834	Lisbon, St. Lawrence, New York, United Statesto Sarah Margaret Conant
Death^[1]	17 Feb 1861	Seattle, King, Washington, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 White, Almira Larkin. Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. (Haverhill, Massachusetts: Chase Brothers Printers, Press of the Nichols Print, 1900-1909).

"Reuben M. Bigelow, b. in Peru, Vt., Apr. 6, 1807; m. in Lisbon, NY, --, Sarah Margaret, dau of George C. and Sally (Tibbets) Coleman. He moved from Ogdensburg, N.Y., to Allegan, Mich., about 1835, and afterward moved to Otsego, where she d. Nov. 15, 1847. Some years later he went to Seattle, Wash., where he took up a tract of land, thinking to provide for the little ones he had left at home in Michigan, and while he was waiting for the government to survey the land that it might be legally secured for his children, he was stricken a second time with paralysis and d. Feb. 17, 1861."
Greg Lange, "Duwamish Coal Company is established near Black River on October 20, 1853.", in HistoryLink
[1].

"Dr. R. M. Bigelow discovered coal during the summer of 1853 near the site where the Renton coal mines would be established. On October 20, 1853, Bigelow, along with Leonard M. Felker and L. M. Collins, formed the Duwamish Coal Company to mine the claim....Because of poor organization and the 1855-1856 Indian War, the coal company went out of business."
King, Washington, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

R.M. Biglow, age 53, b. VT, physician; living alone.
↑ Appears under 1831 in Williams College Catalogus Gulielmensis.