378 ERASTUS BRIGHAM BIGELOW. 



trustee of the Boston Athenasum. lie served for six years as repre- 

 sentative to the Massachusetts Legislature. In 1851 his father died, 

 bequeathing him a large estate. Mr. Andrews left a widow, two sons, 

 and three daughters, the eldest of whom married the late Dr. John 

 B. S. Jackson, of this city. Mr. Andrews was a man of much kind- 

 ness of disposition and great elegance of manners. For two years 

 before his death he was afflicted with paralysis in his legs. He was 

 elected a member of this Academy, November 11, 1857. 



ERASTUS BRIGHAM BIGELOW. 



During the past year the Academy has lost one of its most valued 

 members by the death of Erastus Brigham Bigelow. 



He had a genius for mechanics ; his name will be remembered as 

 one of the great inventors of his time, and as one who had a rare 

 faculty in the application of science to the useful arts. 



He combined in a marked degree the qualifications of a sagacious 

 man of business with those of a skilful mechanician, and thereby 

 succeeded in accumulating au ample fortune, the income of which 

 was wisely spent. It may well be said of him that the dollars of his 

 wealth measured the services he had rendered; 



Mr. Bigelow took an active interest in the discussion of the social 

 and political questions of his time, and has left many valuable rec- 

 ords that will be of service to students when the financial history of 

 the last quarter of a century is written. 



He treated questions of business and of taxation with marked 

 ability, and it remains for time to prove whether he was as successful 

 in solving the vexed questions in these brauches of social science as 

 he was in perfecting the complex machinery with which his name is 

 identified. 



THOMAS MAYO BREWER. 



Thomas Mayo Brewer was born in Boston, November 21, 1814, 

 and died, after a short illness, at his residence in that city, Janu- 

 ary 23, 1880. He graduated at Harvard College in 1835, and from 

 the Harvard Medical School in 1838. Entering immediately upon 

 the practice of his profession, he held for some years the position of 

 Dispensary Physician at the North End. On abandoning the profes- 

 sion of medicine, he became one of the editors of the Boston Atlas, 

 and continued his connection with the paper till it was merged in 

 the Boston Traveller, attaining considerable distinction as a political 



