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Established 1875 Incorporated. Massachusetts, 1892 Incorporated, Connecticut, 1910 
Mary Augusta Bigelow 
wife OF 
THE EDITOR OF THIS MAGAZINE 
BORN PORTLAND. CONNECTICUT. JULY 1. 1853 
DIED - BIRCHEN BOWER. ” ARCADIA: SOUND BEACH. CONNECTICUT. 
MAY 14. 1921 
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Mrs. Bigelow’s life ideally exempli- 
fied the threefold work of The Agassiz 
Association: Church. Home, School. 
1. Church. A devoted member of 
the Episcopal Church. She was for 
many years a member of the choir of 
Trinity Church, Portland. Connecticut, 
and an active worker in various socie- 
ties in that church. For the past twen- 
ty-four years she was a member of St. 
John’s Episcopal Church. Stamford, 
Connecticut, and for a number of those 
years was an active worker in the Girls’ 
Friendly Society. 
2 . Home. As an only child she lov- 
ingly cared, for many years, for an in- 
valid father and mother, and was also a 
devoted wife and mother. She is sur- 
vived by two daughters — Miss Nellie 
Pelton Bigelow and Miss Pearl Agnes 
Bigelow; a son — Woodbridge Fuller 
Bigelow, and three grandchildren — 
Doris Clement Bigelow, Sherman Dean 
Bigelow and Elizabeth Goodman 
Bigelow. 
3 . School. Previous to her mar- 
riage she was a school-teacher for sev- 
eral years and has always been actively 
interested in education. She has been 
a worker in The Agassiz Association 
for thirty-one years, beginning in ’90 
as assistant editor and proof reader of 
“The Observer” Magazine at Portland. 
Connecticut, for a number of years the 
official organ of The Agassiz Associa- 
tion. Into the work of our beloved As- 
sociation she entered even more extend- 
edlv fourteen years ago and continued 
that interest almost to the hour of her 
death. For several years she kept the 
bank and advertising accounts and oc- 
casionally in the earlier years assisted 
in other clerical work. She rend the 
proofs of every number of The Guide 
to Nature, with the May number com- 
pleting Volume XIII only a few days 
before her final illness of a week. 
The funeral service, conducted by the 
Reverend Gerald A. Cunningham of St. 
John’s Episcopal Church of Stamford, 
was held in the Welcome Reception 
Room of ArcAdiA on the afternoon of 
Mav 16. The interment was in Trinity 
Cemetery, Portland, Connecticut, on 
May 17. and the service at the grave 
was conducted by the Reverend \\ . E. 
Hooker. Portland. Connecticut. 
