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TIMOTHY BIGELOW 1767-1821
Grand Master, 1806-1808, 1811-1813
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BIOGRAPHY
(From 1916 Proceedings)
Hon. Timothy Bigelow was born April 30, 1767, the son of Col. Timothy Bigelow, of Worcester, who commanded the Thirteenth Massachusetts Regiment in the Revolutionary War. M.W. Brother Bigelow graduated at Harvard College in 1786; read law with Hon. Levi Lincoln, Senior; and opened an office in Groton in 1789. He was eminently successful in the practice of his profession, a sound lawyer, and a distinguished advocate and counselor. He was chosen representative of the town in 1798 and in each of the next succeeding thirteen years, except 1803. In 1802 he was chosen one of the Executive Council and taken from the House of Representatives to fill that station in which he served two years. In October, 1806, he removed with his family from Groton to Medford and opened an office, for practice, in Boston. He represented the town of Medford in the General Court, most, if not all of the years, from his removal there until his death. He was Senator from Middlesex from 1797 to 1801, and Councillor again in 1821. He possessed an admirable talent for presiding in deliberative and other assemblies, and had opportunity to exercise that talent by being Speaker of the House of Representatives for eleven years, as well as by presiding in literary and charitable societies of which he was a member. Law and politics were not the only sciences in which he excelled. He was a great student and general reader. Books in all the liberal arts and sciences were his familiar acquaintances. His conversation in private and social circles of his friends was highly exhilarating, and none ever spent an hour in his presence on such occasions without enjoying a rich feast of intellectual entertainment. He died May 18, 1821, aged 54.
He was Master of Saint Paul's Lodge from December 28, 1801 to December 27, 1802. He was a noted orator and among his various orations which have been published is his eulogy on the character of Washington, delivered before the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts on February 11, 1800. (Note: this oration is mentioned in the Proceedings but is not reproduced.)
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CHARTERS GRANTED
1806-1808
- 03/12/1806 St. George, Warren (Me.)
- 06/09/1806 Mountain, Rowe
- 09/08/1806 Ionic, Steuben (Me.)
- 09/08/1806 Ancient Landmark, Portland (Me.)
- 03/12/1807 Mount Vernon, Belchertown
- 03/12/1807 Pentucket, Chelmsford
- 06/08/1807 Sylvan, Southwick
- 09/14/1807 Oxford, Paris (Me.)
- 06/13/1808 Mount Pleasant, Granville
- 06/13/1808 Maine, Farmington
- 09/12/1808 Rising Sun, Sandisfield
- 12/12/1808 Jordan, Danvers
1811-1813
- 06/10/1811 Humanity, Holland
- 06/13/1811 Oriental Star, Livermore (Me.)
- 09/14/1812 Thompson, Rutland
- 03/08/1813 York, Wells
- 03/08/1813 Evening Star (to resume work under its old charter)
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