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Bigelow Homestead
The Bigelow Homestead is a house and property located in Malden-on-Hudson, NY. The house was constructed around 1811 by Asa Bigelow, who along with his brother-in-law, XXX was a founder of the village. The home was the birthplace of John Bigelow, and later became the home of John Bigelow's son, Poultney Bigelow. It is currently privately owned by descendants of John Bigelow.

During the residence of Poultney Bigelow, visitors include Ella and Percy Grainger, XXX, XXX, XXX, and XXX. Poultney Bigelow hosted annual events at the property that attracted many notable individuals. His library includes books inscribed to him from Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, Gertrude Atherton, Kaiser Wilhelm, and many others. One journalist wrote of the library, "while a complete roster of the autographed books would read like a page of American Bibliography."

The house once included a bust of Samuel Tilden, the only one in existence at the time. That bust is now missing.

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A Visit to the Bigelow Homestead

Website:	The History Box.com Article Name:	A Visit to the Bigelow Homestead Researcher/Transcriber	Miriam Medina Source:

BIBLIOGRAPHY: From my collection of Books: Valentine's Manual of the City of New York 1917-1918; edited by Henry Collins Brown; the Old Colony Press-New York Time & Date Stamp:	 Sun Nov 22 2020 08:08:36 GMT-0500 (Colombia Standard Time).

On the wall is a portrait of Emperor William dated 1888, the end of his first year as Kaiser of Germany. It bears a message: "With my very best thanks for your kind sketch of me Wilhelm" and refers to the article in the Century by Bigelow reviving the events of this apparently auspicious reign. In the hallway is still earlier portrait, 1880, of the Emperor with a frank, open, boyish face in his student days. Many others of still earlier and perhaps more interesting days, are about the house but never shown. They cover the period of Bigelow's personal friendship with the Emperor, which continued uninterruptedly till the trend of Prussianism became unmistakable and a parting of the ways inevitable. it is an undoubted fact that Emperor William never had, nor was it in his power to have, a more unselfish, genuine friendship with any human being on earth than he had with Poultney Bigelow. Rainy afternoons in the attic of the old Palace at Sans Souci, when Prince William, Prince Henry, Poultney and another boy played Indians, when Bigelow was the Heap

It is fitting that Gertrude Atherton, the great, great niece of Benjamin Franklin, should be represented by a portrait in her girlish days indebted to the "One and only Poultney Bigelow," nor is it strange that Frances Hodgson Burnett should say "From the keeper of the Deer Park to one of the Dears."

Carroll Beckwith is remembered with a painting of the original Gibson Girl taken from the model Gibson was then using in Paris and from which this famous series originated. R. Caton Woodville who painted the last portrait of King Edward, sends a spirited drawing of a horse inscribed "To my friend." Mrs. E.R. Thomas is represented by a charming portrait of Billy Burke. Miss Dewing Woodward by Autumn Voices, Samuel Isham by a painting ultimately designed for the Malden Library. Thure de Thulstrup, Alfred Parsons, R.F. Zogbaum are among the other artists who have delighted to honor this friend of theirs by some little personal memento. James Russell Lowell, John Hay, Elihu Root and many others must be mentioned ere the list of friends is closed.

Website:	The History Box.com Article Name:	A Visit to the Bigelow Homestead Researcher/Transcriber	Miriam Medina Source:

BIBLIOGRAPHY: From my collection of Books: Valentine's Manual of the City of New York 1917-1918; edited by Henry Collins Brown; the Old Colony Press-New York Time & Date Stamp:	 Sun Nov 22 2020 08:08:36 GMT-0500 (Colombia Standard Time).

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