Leslie Bigelow
Leslie L. Bigelow (1880-1943) received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1903 and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1906. He married Elizabeth Cole on June 8th, 1909 and had three sons: Edmund Lawson, Leslie Cole and Robert Gibbons. Bigelow taught at Starling-Ohio Medical College from 1912-1914. He then taught surgery at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, attaining full professorship in 1938. He also served as surgeon at Grant, St. Francis and Children’s Hospitals, where he was Chief of Staff for 25 years. He was one of the original founders of the Ohio Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1914, and the Ohio State Medical Association President (1927- 1928). Bigelow was also a former President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Association of Surgeons and member of the Columbus Medical Academy of Medicine. In 1942 he was appointed Acting Dean of the OSU College of Medicine, but died suddenly on January 15, 1943.
The Medical Heritage Center has an archival collection about Dr. Bigelow and the finding aid for it can be viewed at https://hsl.osu.edu/mhc/pdf/leslie-l-bigelow-md-collection
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