Career Ends Archie P. Bigelow...Dies in Oakland, Cal., hospital. Ogden Bank Founder Dies at 75 A. P. Bigelow Succumbs in Coast Hospital Dec.17 1942 Tribune Intermountain Wire OGDEN Archie P. Bigelow, 75, pioneer Ogden banker and business Man and more recently, a vice president of the First Federal Savings and Loan association of Oakland, Cal., died Thursday evening in an Oakland hospital, it was learned Friday by relatives in Ogden. Mr. Bigelow and his father, the late H. C. Bigelow, established the old Ogden State bank in the early 1890s with offices in the newly erected Reed hotel, which occupied the present site of the Ben Lomond hotel. When E. A. Reed, who directed construction of the Reed hotel, became ill, the Ogden State bank took charge of the hotels affairs. In the early 1920s the need of a large, modern hotel to meet the needs of Ogdens expanding trade area was seen, and Hotel Bigelow, now the Ben Lomond hotel, was erected on the old Reed hotel site at the cost of approximately a million and a half dollars. Three hundred stockholders invested in the new enterprise, which was opened in the fall of 1927. Mr. Bigelow was born 75 years ago in Buda, Ill., a son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Bigelow. In 1875 the family moved to Nebraska, where they built a home in the previously uninhabited frontier. He worked on his fathers farm and attended a country school. His father was elected treasurer of the county in which the family lived, and the younger Mr. Bigelow left high school to assume a position in the treasurers office at Hebron. Neb. Later he was appointed deputy treasurer, but he resigned the position to enter the University of Wisconsin. He began his banking career in 1887, when he accepted a position as a clerk, and shortly thereafter he was elevated to assistant cashier. He and his father came to Ogden in 1889, and shortly afterward they established the Ogden State bank. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Leota Hendershot Bigelow of Oakland; a daughter, Mrs. Marriner Browning of Ogden, and two grandsons, Matt and Bigelow Browning. The body, occompanied by Bigelow Browning, will leave Oaklanc for Ogden Saturday morning anc arrive in Ogden Sunday. Betty Williams Benson Passes FLORENCE (BETTY) W. BENSON 1942 Mrs. Florence Elizabeth (Betty)Williams Benson, 28, 1435 Twenty fifth, wife of Lieutenant L. W. Benson, former Ogden physician and surgeon, died Sunday at five fifteen a. m. in an Ogden hospital following an extended illness due to a heart ailment. Mrs. Benson was born August 24, 1914, in Ogden, a daughter of William H. and Ethel Paine Williams. She was a life long resident of Ogden, where she was graduated from the Ogden senior high school. She also attended Occidental college at Pasadena, Calif., two years and the University of Utah. She married Dr. Benson June 29, 1939. Her mother died December 6, 1941, exactly a year prior to Mrs. Bensons death. She was a member of the L. D. S. church; of Beta Pi, collegiate social sorority; the Welfare league of Ogden; the McDowell Music society, the Ogden Golf and Country club and the ladies auxiliaries to the Weber County and Utah State Medical associations. Surviving are her husband, who is stationed at Camp Haan, Calif. Lieutenant Benson arrived in Ogden from his post Sunday evening.