Biography of Filmore C. Bigelow
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY
W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]
Page 857
FILMORE C. BIGELOW, P O. Danville,. Ill., born Jan. 23, 1848, at Plain City, Madison County, Ohio. His parents were Dr. Daniel K. and Lydia (Custer) Bigelow. He was engaged in farming and clerking in a grocery store up to 1866; then attended College at Columbus, Ohio, and began telegraphing in 1867. He was married April 14, 1875, to Miss Annie M. Ball, at Clarksville, Tenn., after which he settled in Danville, Ill. Has two children, Edith I., born November 13, 1878, and Pearl K., born November 11, 1880. In 1880, he quit telegraphing and commenced as billing clerk for the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company, which
position he still holds. Mrs. Bigelow's parents were Ephraim and Sarah (Peek) Ball. Her grandparents were John and Mary (Grimes) Ball. Mrs. Bigelow was born May 10, 1857 at North Manchester, Wabash County, Ind.
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