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Bigelow, John Emerson, 1842-1931
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John Emerson Bigelow, son of Ebenezer and Waite, was born 21 February 1842 in Canning, Nova Scotia. A shipbuilder by trade, after his father's death he joined his brothers, Gideon and Samuel, in taking over his father's shipbuilding yard. He married Hannah Ann Blenkhorn in 1862, with whom he had 10 children: Minnie Beatrice, 1862-1951; Owen, 1865-?; Laura, 1867-1867; Joseph, 1868-1950; Emerson John, 1872-1942; Scott Sydney, 1874-1965; Halle Blenkhorn, 1876-1949; Alonzo Michener, 1879-1955; Arnon J., 1880-1926; and John Erle, 1885-1976. He died in Canning in 1931.