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J O H N B I G E L O W

1817 - 1911

One of our most distinguished citizens, John Bigelow,

was, above all, dedicated to the improvement of thehuman condition. Throughout his long life he was

engaged in public affairs - active in prison reform, Consul

to France during the Civil War, founder of the New York 

Public Library, co-owner and managing editor of the New

York Evening Post, biographer, and profile writer. He

was an intellectual described as a “common-sense”

mystic. Shrewdly practical, worldly, yet with other-

worldly interests; a natural aristocrat who believed in

democracy - such a man was Bigelow.

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