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Bigelow, Ebenezer, 1815-1889
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Ebenezer Bigelow, Jr. was born 12 January 1814 to Ebenezer Bigelow, Sr. and Ann Rand. His father owned a small shipyard at Oak Point, Kingsport, and Ebenezer learned the trade early. He built his first ship at age nineteen, and in 1838 he established his own shipyard in Canning, Nova Scotia, where over the next fifty years he designed and built sixty-seven vessels. In 1838 he married Waity Sanford, with whom he had 10 children. He died 14 August 1889 in Canning, Nova Scotia.