Nelson Gordon Bigelow
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Nelson Gordon Bigelow (April 22, 1840 – November 4, 1892) was a Canadian lawyer and political figure in
Liberal
in 1892.
He was born in Tecumseh Township,
Queen's Counsel in 1889. He served as a member of the Senate for Victoria University. Bigelow was elected to the provincial legislature in an 1892 by-election held after the death of Henry Edward Clarke
.
In 1879, Bigelow and Dalton McCarthy successfully defended Emily Stowe, a female physician generally thought to be the first white female to practice medicine in Canada, against charges of attempting to procure an abortion.
He died in office in 1892.