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unusual facts about Herbert S. Bigelow


Herbert S. Bigelow

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress.


1947 in art

Norman Rockwell produces the first of his Four Seasons calendar illustrations for Brown & Bigelow.

Clitocybe albirhiza

American mycologists Howard E. Bigelow and Alexander H. Smith first described the species officially in 1963, from specimens collected in June, 1954, near Payette Lake, Idaho.

Herbert S. Fairbank

In 1957 he was the first recipient of the Thomas H. MacDonald Award for outstanding contributions to highway progress.

Herbert S. Goldstein

The synagogue services came first, and then came the gymnasium and the Olympic-size swimming pool.

Globally, he fought for the survival and transplantation of European Jewry as an activist in the Vaad Hatzalah and the Agudath Israel.

Herbert S. Hadley

During his four years as chancellor, the University also founded the George Warren Brown Department of Social Work, which later became its own school within the university and one of the top-ranked social-work programs in the United States.

Herbert S. Lewis

In Ethiopia, Lewis studied the both the history of the Oromo (Galla) Kingdom of Jimma Abba Jifar and the lives of contemporary Oromos from 1958–60 and 1965–66.

Herbert S. Okun

After retiring from the foreign service, he served as chief aide to former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and former British Foreign Secretary Lord David Owen in the talks to end the slaughter resulting from the break-up of Yugoslavia.

Herbert White

Herbert S. White (born 1927), American professor of library science

John P. Bigelow

In 1850, Bigelow had been scheduled to meet with George Thompson, a famous British abolitionist, who was holding a meeting at Faneuil Hall.

That year, a slave, Shadrach Minkins, had escaped into Boston, where he came to reside and earn a living as a waiter.

To fully appreciate the rapid transformation which Boston underwent in the mid-nineteenth century and to rightfully evaluate Bigelow’s performance as mayor, it is important to emphasize how the Irish diaspora reshaped the City of Boston’s societal structures.

Simon Schama in his book Dead Certainties characterizes the city of Boston during this time period as being in “trouble,” and Mayor Bigelow as being “much given to jeremiads about the decay of morals and collapsing of good order occasioned by the new unwashed in his city”.

Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow

In 1956, Barr married mycologist Howard E. Bigelow and was awarded a Ph.D. for her work The taxonomic position of the genus Mycosphaerella as shown by comparative developmental studies one week later.

Morris Rudensky

During a prison riot on August 1, 1929, Rudensky saved the life of inmate Charlie Ward, the future president of the Brown & Bigelow advertising firm.

Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center

It had been known as the Fairbank Highway Research Station for Herbert S. Fairbank, an official at FHWA's predecessor Bureau of Public Roads.

Walter S. Dickey

He was chairman of the Missouri Republican Party and was to help engineer the victory of Herbert S. Hadley, the first Republican governor of Missouri since Reconstruction.


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