Jacob Bigelow
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Dr. Jacob Bigelow (1787-1879) was a prominent medical doctor and architect of Mount Auburn Cemetery, a famous cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Bigelow was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts on February 7, 1787 (other sources claim 1786). Bigelow graduated from Harvard College and then studied under Dr. John Gorham. He then graduated from the University of Pennsylvania medical school in 1810. He also studied under botantist Benjamin Barton.
Bigelow went on to publish numerous books, including one of America's first botanical books, American Medical Botany, and he taught at Harvard about medicine, botany, and mechanics. He played a major role in designing and founding Mount Auburn Cemetery. Bigelow died on January 10, 1878 and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
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Harvard Archives Bigelow Collections (BIOGRAPHY)
- Bailey, L.H., Jr. "Some North American Botanists: V. Jacob Bigelow." Botanical Gazette 8(5): 217-222.
- Gray, Asa. "Dr. Jacob Bigelow." The American Journal of Science and Arts Third Series. 17(100): 263-266.
- Elliott, Clark A. Biographical Dictionary of American Science: The Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Centuries. 1979.
- Kelly, Howard A. "Jacob Bigelow." Some American Medical Botanists. Troy, New York : The Southworth Company Publishers, 1914.
Digital editions of American Medical Botany
