# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacob-bigelow
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:23:30.644Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacob-bigelow"
name: "Jacob Bigelow"
slug: "jacob-bigelow"
description: "Jacob Bigelow was an American physician, botanist and botanical illustrator. He was architect of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, husband to Mary Scollay, and the father of physician Henry Jacob Bigelow. The standard author abbreviation Bigelow is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name."
tagline: "American botanist, physician, and educational reformer (1787-1879)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jacob_Bigelow2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1787-02-27"
deathDate: "1879-01-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.222222222222222
  historical:           12.87782666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Jacob Bigelow"
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    title: "Jacob Bigelow"
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    title: "Jacob Bigelow"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump