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Frank Hagar Bigelow was a United States scientist. His mother took an interest in astronomy, and her involvement caught his interest. He was educated at the primary and high school in Concord, in the Boston Latin School, Harvard College (graduated 1873), and at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and entered orders. For some years he was assistant astronomer in the Argentine National Observatory in Cordoba. This service (1873-76; 1881-83) was interrupted for his theological studies, and for the short time (1880-81) after entering orders he was a rector in Natick, Massachusetts. Later he was professor of mathematics in Racine College, Wisconsin, assistant in the National Almanac office in Washington, D.C., and in 1891 he became professor of meteorology in the United States Weather Bureau in Washington. He was also an assistant rector of St. John’s Church in Washington.
 His name is especially associated with an instrument for the photographic record of the transit of stars and with some novel studies by which the solar corona, the aurora, and terrestrial magnetism are shown to be associated. The theories met with a favorable reception in scientific circles.

Frank married Mary Ellen SPALDING on 6 Oct 1881 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Amos Fletcher SPALDING and Caroline E. SANDERSON) was born on 24 Nov 1857 in Calais, Washington, Maine; died on 7 Mar 1924. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]