Alameda County Biographies

ELIJAH BIGELOW

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	Is the son of Elijah and Rebecca (Fisk) Bigelow, and was born in Newton, Middlesex 
County, Massachusetts, September 9, 1810.  Here he resided until the year 1852, when joining 
in the human stream then turned towards California, he sailed from the city of New York, March 
20th, and arrived per steamer California in the harbor of San Francisco, May 14, 1852.  He at 
once embarked in the grocery and provision business on Front Street, and there continued three 
years, afterwards being thus engaged in other parts of the city in the same line of trade until 
1863, when he crossed the bay to Oakland, and started in real-estate transactions, acquiring the 
first homestead in Oakland, it being situated at the corner of Market and Fourteenth Streets of 
the present day.  Married, firstly, July 13, 1834, Emma McLachlan who died January 6, 1880; and 
secondly, May 15, 1882, Mrs. C. F. Bartlett.

History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 849