The Poultney Bigelow Page

Its difficult to sum up the life of Poultney Bigelow; he travelled to so many places, was a friend to so many interesting people, and wrote about so many different matters.  For starters, there is an article about a turn-of-the-century visit to the Bigelow Homestead, home of Bigelow.

Bigelow Homestead: a photo album.

A brief history of the Bigelows by John Bigelow, in the form of a speech.

For a brief biography and an Example of the writings of John Bigelow

To See a brief biography and an inventory of the papers of Poultney Bigelow , John Bigelow's son.

• Bigelow Society by Rod Bigelow
• Bigelow Society by Don Bigelow

both of these pages have excellent links to MORE Bigelow pages!!!

Check out the Isham page

Friends and associates of Poultney Bigelow

• Mark Twain
• Frederic Remington
• John Burroughs
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt
• Elizabeth Van Arnim , the author of Elizabeth And Her German Garden

For locating sources of information about the Mid-Hudson Valley Region and the Catskills, a wonderful source is the Hope Farm Press