Concept
John Bigelow
Overview
John Bigelow Sr. (November 25, 1817 – December 19, 1911) was an American lawyer, newspaper editor, diplomat, and historian who, during the American Civil War, "[a]s consul to Paris, then as minister to France, ... did more than any other man to ward off dreaded French intervention on behalf of the Confederacy...." He played a central role in the founding of the New York Public Library in 1895, becoming at age 93 the first President of the Board of Trustees of the New York Public Library. He also served as the first president of the New York Law School Board of Trustees. He edited the complete works of Benjamin Franklin and the first autobiography of Franklin taken from Franklin's previously lost original manuscript.
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The first five chapters of the Autobiography were composed in England in 1771, continued in 1784-5, and again in 1788, at which date he brought it down to 1757. After a most extraordinary series of adventures, the original form of the manuscript was finally printed by Mr. John Bigelow, and is here reproduced in recognition of its value as a picture of one of the most notable personalities of Colonial times, and of…
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Opens on John Bigelow; names John Bigelow.
But I am got forward too fast with my story. There are still some transactions to be mentioned that happened during the administration of Governor Morris. [Footnote 148: "From the manuscript journal of Mr. Andrew Ellicott," says Mr. John Bigelow in one of his editions of the Autobiography, "I have been kindly favored by Mr. J. C. G. Kennedy, of Washington, one of his descendants, with the following extract, which…
Benjamin Franklin, Franklin's Autobiography
Names John Bigelow.
The Library of Congress owns two copies of this Cincinnati imprint. One, lacking the title page and final leaf, is bound in a volume of unknown provenance, possibly obtained about 1912, containing four early editions of Northwest Territory laws. The other is a separate copy, lacking the last three leaves. This more interesting copy has two inscriptions on its title page, the words written uppermost posing some…
Roger J. Trienens, Pioneer Imprints from Fifty States
Close in meaning to John Bigelow; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed John Bigelow
Related ideas
- Emanuel Swedenborg
- Abraham Lincoln
- Benjamin Franklin
- World War I
- Confederate States of America
- American Civil War
- Don H. Doyle
Place in the tradition
Part of Reformed epistemology.