Samuel Fowler Bigelow

{{Short description|American judge, attorney and author (1837–1915)}}

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|office1 = U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey

|president1 = Grover Cleveland

|term_start1 =1887

|term_end1 = 1888

|predecessor1 = Job H. Lippincott

|successor1 = George S. Duryee

|office2 = Judge of Newark City Court

|term_start2 =1868

|term_end2 =?

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|birth_date = {{birth date|1837|3|29}}

|birth_place = Newark, New Jersey, US

|death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1915|3|8|1837|3|29}}

|death_place = East Orange, New Jersey, US

|resting_place = Mount Pleasant Cemetery

| education = Newark Academy
Ashland Hall
Freehold Institute

|alma_mater = Princeton College (1857)

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|party = Democrat

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Samuel Fowler Bigelow (March 29, 1837 – March 8, 1915) was an American judge, attorney, and author in New Jersey.

Biography

Samuel Fowler Bigelow was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 29, 1837, the son of Moses Bigelow, who served as the Mayor of Newark from 1857 to 1864.[https://books.google.com/books?id=6PIQAQAAMAAJ&dq=samuel+fowler+bigelow&pg=PA405 Magazine of Western History, Volume 19], 1894, pages 405 and 406Lee, Francis Bazley. [https://books.google.com/books?id=S5E-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA968-IA6 Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey], p. 968. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910. Accessed March 1, 2023. "Samuel Foster Bigelow, eldest child of Hon. Moses and Julia Ann (Breckenridge) Bigelow, was prepared for college at Newark Academy, Ashland Hall and Freehold Institute." He was educated at Newark Academy, Ashland Hall, and Freehold Institute.{{Cite web|title=Bigelow, Moses (6) = mos63544.htm|url=http://bigelowsociety.com/rod/mos63544.htm#SAMUEL_FOWLER|access-date=November 2, 2020|website=bigelowsociety.com}} He graduated from Princeton College in 1857 and became City Attorney of Newark, New Jersey in 1863. He became a judge of the Newark City Court in 1868.

President Grover Cleveland appointed him United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey. He also served as Supreme Court Commissioner for the Supreme Court of New Jersey and was appointed Special Master in Chancery by Chancellor William T. McGill. Judge Andrew Kirkpatrick appointed him as United States Commissioner for New Jersey. He wrote the book Biographical Sketch of Moses Bigelow (1890) about his father Moses Bigelow He married to Lucy Paul Bigelow on January 3, 1861, in Belvedere, Warren County, New Jersey.

Samuel Fowler Bigelow died at his sister's home in East Orange on March 8, 1915, and was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Newark.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newark-star-eagle-saml-f-bigelow-passe/127550056/ |title=Sam'l F. Bigelow Passes Away at Home of Sister |newspaper=Newark Evening Star |page=1 |date=1915-03-08 |access-date=2023-07-03 |via=Newspapers.com}}