Bigelow, big'e low, JOHN (1817-1911), an American author and journalist, born in Malden, N. Y. He graduated at Union College, was admitted to the bar, became with William Cullen Bryant part owner of the New York Evening Post in 1849 and managed the paper until 1861. In that year he was sent to Paris as consul and was United States minister there from 1865 to 1867. In 1867 he became a Democrat and was elected secretary of state of New York. He wrote biographies of Fremont, Bryant and Tilden and edited Franklin's autobiography and Tilden's speeches.