Ann Elizabeth Bigelow

Ann Elizabeth White Bigelow 1836-1926

Born 1836 in Springfield, Illinois, Ann Elizabeth White traveled with her family over the Oregon Trail in 1851. After teaching for a number of years, she married Daniel Bigelow in 1854 at her parents’ home. Daniel and Ann Elizabeth Bigelow were stalwarts in both the Methodist Church and the local Temperance Group. The Bigelows were both active in the Territorial women’s suffrage movement. Notably in 1871 Susan B. Anthony had dinner at the Bigelow House and declared Mrs. Bigelow “Splendid.”

After Daniel Bigelow’s death in 1905 she continued to live on in the Bigelow House until her death in 1926. She was interested in gardening and managed her own property.

Ann Elizabeth White Bigelow as a young woman

Ann Elizabeth Bigelow

Ann Elizabeth Bigelow 1836-1926 with unidentified child, ambrotype

Daniel Richardson Bigelow and Ann Elizabeth Bigelow 50th anniversary

Ann Elizabeth Bigelow 1836-1926 and Daniel Richardson Bigelow 1824-1906 50th Anniversary, 1904

Margaret Stewart White Ruddell with three daughters

Margaret Stewart White Ruddell with her three daughters Clara White Dunbar, Mary Ellen White Byrd, Ann Elizabeth White Bigelow

Ruth and Ann Elizabeth Bigelow in the garden

Ruth Bigelow Wright and Ann Elizabeth Bigelow with roses on south side of the house

Ann Elizabeth Bigelow

Ann Elizabeth Bigelow in garden

AE Bigelow outside Bigelow House near sw porch with child.

Ann Elizabeth Bigelow outside Bigelow House near sw porch with unidentified child.

See also entry for Ann Elizabeth White in our Who Are We? feature

Digitization and posting of these images from the Bigelow House Collection funded through the Pendleton & Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation.