, Biglow, John

born in 1817, of New York, in 1849 became, with William Cullen Bryant, joint owner of the Evening Fost, and was managing editor till 1861, when he went to Paris as U. S. Consul, and was Minister to France from 1865 to 1867, when he became Secretary of State of New York. He is trustee under the will of Samuel J. Tilden and his literary executor. His chief literary work was the editing of the full text of Franklin’s Autobiography. “‘Biglow Papers,’’ two series of extraordinarily brilliant political satires written by James Ru ell Lowell. The first, satirizing the Mexican War and contemporary politics, from the point of view of the New England Abolitionists, appeared (1846-1848) in the Boston Courter and the National Anti-Slavery Standard. The second, satirizing the South and contemporary politics during the period of Civil War and reconstruction, appeared (1861-1866) in the Aélantic Monthly. The papers are attributed to Hosea Biglow, a typical young Yankee farmer, Rev. Homer Wilbur, a typical old-school New England clergyman, and Birdofredum Sawin, a character intended to represent the non-Puritan element in the New England democracy.