Higginson, Stephen
merchant, philanthropist, was born Nov. 20, 1770, in Salem, Mass. He became a merchant and philanthropist in Boston, and was known as the Man of Ross of his day. He died Feb. 20, 1834, in Cambridge, Mass.
HIGGINSON, THOMAS WENTWORTH, soldier, clergyman, author, poet, was born Dec. 22, 1823, in Cambridge, Mass. He is an essayist and littérateur of Cambridge.
During the civil war he commanded a regiment of freedmen. His writings include, The Birthday in Fairy Land; Woman and her Wishes; Out-Door Papers; a translation of Epictetus; Malbone, a romance; Army Life in a Black Regiment; Atlantic Essays; Sympathy of Religions; Oldport Days; Young Folks' History of the United States; Young Folks' Book of American Explorers; Short Studies of American Authors: Common Sense about Women; Life of Margaret Fuller; Larger History of the United States; Travelers and Outlaws; Women and Men; The Afternoon Landscape, a collection of poems; Life of Francis Higginson; The New World and the New Book; Concerning All of Us; Such as They Are; The Monarch of Dreams; Hints on Writing and Speech-Making; Cheerful Yesterdays; English History for Americans; and Book and Heart.