Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . ester and Nashua Rail-road Company, the City Bank, and the ^Mechanics Mutual Insurance Com-pany of Worcester. Mr. Bigelow married, September 4, 1834, Miss Emily Worcester, andhad four children, two of whom died young. His widow survived himfor many years, and his two sons, Henry H. and Charles B. Bigelow, in-herited their fathers administrative capacity and succeeded him as manag-ing agent
Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . ester and Nashua Rail-road Company, the City Bank, and the ^Mechanics Mutual Insurance Com-pany of Worcester. Mr. Bigelow married, September 4, 1834, Miss Emily Worcester, andhad four children, two of whom died young. His widow survived himfor many years, and his two sons, Henry H. and Charles B. Bigelow, in-herited their fathers administrative capacity and succeeded him as manag-ing agents of the Bigelow Carpet Co. After three years of invalidism, died at his home in Worcester, January 2, 1868. HENRY PARKER FAIRBANKS. Henry Parker Fairbanks was born in Boston, Mass., Sept. 7,1808. He was a son of Stephen and Abby (Parker) Fairbanks, a grand-son of Israel and Anna (Buckman) Fairbanks, great-grandson of Israeland Elizabeth (Whiting) Fairbanks, and descended through Joseph andAbigail (Deane) Fairbanks, Joseph and Dorcas Fairbanks. John and Sarah(Fiske) Fairbanks, from Jonathan and Grace (Lee) Fairbanks, of Med-ford, Mass. This Jonathan came to Boston from England in 1633, and. OF THE UNITED STATES 325 later settled in Dedham, being one of the earliest pioneers, and was oneof the signers of the covenant when the town was established and named. Henry P. Fairbanks attended the Boston schools, where he acquiredthe distinction of being a Franklin Medal scholar. Mr. Fairbanks was ahardware saddlery merchant in Boston, but resided in Charlestown. In1849 he became associated with Erastus B. and Horatio N. Bigelow as apartner in the firm of H. N. & E. B. Bigelow, who began the manufactureof carpets in Clinton, Mass., and was selling agent of that company up tothe time of his death in 1854. A Whig in politics, Mr. Fairbanks was an earnest, active worker forhis party, and was a member of the State Legislature in 1847 3^s a repre-sentative from Charlestown; he wa
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