Margaret Bigelow 1878 -1937
Margaret was the youngest of the Bigelow daughters. She graduated from Tacoma High School and taught in several schools locally. She later graduated from Ellensburg Normal School, attended Ohio Wesleyan University and later attended Columbia University and secured a Master of Arts there in 1914. She returned to teach in Olympia and then went to Hawaii from 1916 to 1917 where she taught at the Korean Girls’ Seminary in the Honolulu area (a separate page of this Photograph Collection is devoted to her time at the Seminary).
A musician, she gave piano lessons and was active in local music and theatrics. Notably, she was part of the “Jubilee” at the Methodist Church in 1910 when Washington women permanently won the vote.
Margaret lived out her life in the Bigelow House.
Margaret Bigelow 1875-1937 as a child
Margaret Bigelow 1902. Photographed by Paterson, Olympia.
Margaret Bigelow 1903 as a graduate, Ellensburg Normal School
Group Photo Teachers at WW Miller High School (Olympia High School) Margaret Bigelow third from left.
Margaret Bigelow and child in canoe.
Margaret Elizabeth Bigelow 1875-1937 (attended Ohio Wesleyan in 1908), photo by Baker Art Gallery around 1908
Margaret Bigelow left, with two students and another woman.
Digitization and posting of these images from the Bigelow House Collection funded through the Pendleton & Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation.
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