The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . .In 1875 occurred the union of the McKay and Bigelow heeling-machinecompanies, which ended a bitter struggle between rival interests. Afterthis date Mr. Bigelow retired from active interest in shoe manufacture andturned his attention to other enterprises. He established the electriclighting in Worcester, and also the power company, which was the directforerunner to the present company, to which Mr. Bigelow sold out. Hebecame largely interested in real estate on both shores of Lake Quinsiga-mond, and at the same time secured
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . .In 1875 occurred the union of the McKay and Bigelow heeling-machinecompanies, which ended a bitter struggle between rival interests. Afterthis date Mr. Bigelow retired from active interest in shoe manufacture andturned his attention to other enterprises. He established the electriclighting in Worcester, and also the power company, which was the directforerunner to the present company, to which Mr. Bigelow sold out. Hebecame largely interested in real estate on both shores of Lake Quinsiga-mond, and at the same time secured control of the Worcester & ShrewsburyRailroad. He operated the railroad until its lease to the ConsolidatedvStreet Railway two years ago. He was instrumental in establishing mostof the club-houses at the lake, and has built up practically the whole of thesuburb known as Lake Yiew. In 1884 he gave to the city acres ofland on the shore of Lake Quinsigamond, which tract was the foundationof the present Lake park. In 1882 Mr. Bigelow purchased the land known. HORACE H. BIGELOW. The Worcester of i? 565 as the Rink property, between Foster and Mechanic streets, which up tothat time was the largest real-estate transfer in Worcester, and he is nowengaged in improving this property. Mr. Bigelow has always been freefrom sectarianism in religion and all party prejudice. He has always beena supporter of freedom of thought and of all worthy liberal largely aided in a pecuniary way the publication of the Genealogy of theBigelow Family, and other undertakings have received assistance from himat different times. He was twice married. His first wife, Lucy Ann Howe, died in married Adelaide Elizabeth Buck of Portland, Connecticut, in 1859,and has a daughter, Adelaide F. Stevens, and two sons, Irving E. andFrancis H.
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