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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1861. (search)
descent upon Haverhill, and who killed her captors, and made her way home through the wilderness. . . . . My father has been a teacher for quite a period of his life. Then he carried on business in Boston. . . . . In the financial crisis of 1857 he failed, and is still involved, to some degree, in the troubles resulting there from. This has made me difficulty in my educational course, though no serious hardship; nothing which I am not better for. My mother before her marriage was Clarissa Goodhue. She was daughter of Stephen Goodhue, who resided in Hebron, New Hampshire, and afterwards in Newton, Massachusetts. . . . My college course has been attended with difficulties, more or less (of a pecuniary kind), all the way. I have depended on the College somewhat for assistance. I practised economy by way of boarding myself for a while towards the commencement of the course, and I held the office of monitor in the Junior year. Last winter (1860-61) I taught school fourteen we