Bigelow, Asahel

Bigelow, Asahel a Congregational minister, was born at Boylston, Mass., May 14, 1797. He received his preparatory education at Phillips Academy, Andover, and graduated from Harvard College in 1823, and Andover Theological Seminary in 1826. He was ordained at Walpole, Mass., March 12, 1828, and dismissed Jan. 1, 1849. May 15, 1850, he was installed at Hancock, N. H., and died in office, Aug. 16, 1877, though he had been released for two years from active pastoral service. He represented Walpole in the legislature from 1849 to 1850. He published, A Sermon before the Norfolk County Education Society (Weymouth, 1833): A Sermon at the Ordination of Rev. Andrew Bigelow, at South Dartmouth (Aug. 25, 1841 ): — A Sermon (Hancock, May 9, 1875) at the close of his ministry. (W.P.S.)