Union College Receives NEH CARES Act Grant for Its Bigelow Collection
June 23, 2020
June 23, 2020
SCHENECTADY, New York, June 23 -- Union College issued the following news:
Attorney and writer John Bigelow was so smitten with the vivacious and exuberant raconteuse Jane Tunis Poultney that, four months after meeting her at a party on Long Island in 1850, the two were married.
"She was a woman of notable beauty and social charm. Her family deemed our courtship rather brief, but there seemed to be no occasion, on my part at least, for prolonging it," he wrote . . .
Attorney and writer John Bigelow was so smitten with the vivacious and exuberant raconteuse Jane Tunis Poultney that, four months after meeting her at a party on Long Island in 1850, the two were married.
"She was a woman of notable beauty and social charm. Her family deemed our courtship rather brief, but there seemed to be no occasion, on my part at least, for prolonging it," he wrote . . .