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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
Jacob Bigelow

Born: February 27, 1787
Died: January 10, 1879 (aged 91)
Bio: Jacob Bigelow was an American physician and botanist. He was architect of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the father of physician Henry Jacob Bigelow.
Known for:
- American medical botany (1817)
- Elements of technology
- A treatise on the materia medica