Leslie L. Bigelow was born in Camp Chase, Ohio, April 15, 1880, son of T. Lawson and Mary Helen Bigelow. He 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 Medical School, 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, the Ohio State Medical Association President from 1927 to 1928. Dr. 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. He died suddenly on January 15, 1943.
Sources: The Ohio State University College of Medicine, vol. 1, 1934.
The Ohio State University College of Medicine, vol. 2, 1961.
The Ohio State Medical Association Journal, v. 39, 1943, pg.172-173.