12 Facts About Poultney Bigelow

Poultney Bigelow was an American journalist and author.

Poultney Bigelow was born in New York City, the fourth of eight children of John Bigelow, lawyer, statesman, and co-owner of the New York Evening Post, and his wife Jane Tunis Poultney.

In 1861, at the beginning of the Civil War, when Bigelow was six years old, his father was appointed United States consul in Paris, and subsequently Minister to France, and Poultney was sent to a Potsdam preparatory school.

Poultney Bigelow obtained a law degree from Columbia Law School and practiced briefly.

Poultney Bigelow traveled extensively, and wrote often on the subject.

Poultney Bigelow was a voluminous correspondent with the leading figures of the day, including Roger Casement, Henry George, Mark Twain, Geraldine Farrar, Percy Grainger, Frederic Remington, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Israel Zangwill and George S Viereck.

Poultney Bigelow was the author of eleven books, including a two-volume autobiography, and several on history and colonial administration.

Poultney Bigelow founded the first American magazine devoted to amateur sports, Outing, in 1885.

Poultney Bigelow's second wife, Lillian Pritchard, was a librarian in the library founded by John Bigelow at Malden.

Poultney Bigelow entered the Dale Sanitarium on 14 January 1954, where he died at the age of 98, at which time he was Yale's oldest alumnus, and the oldest member of the Athenaeum of London.

In January 1906, Poultney Bigelow published an article in The Independent describing neglect and mismanagement in the isthmus of Panama related to the building of the Panama Canal.

Poultney Bigelow was subpoenaed to appear before the Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals on Jan 18 1906.