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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, I: Inheritance (search)
and later was a member of the Continental Congress and high in councils of state. He anticipated the literary skill of his grandson Wentworth, for he wrote for the public press, wielding a vigorous pen in defence of his political opinions. He was dimly remembered by his grandson as a dignified and benignant figure in smallclothes. His son, Stephen Higginson, Jr., Wentworth's father, was a successful Boston merchant until Jefferson's embargo deprived him of wealth. He was called the Man of Ross from his great philanthropy, this name having been given to a benevolent English worthy celebrated by Pope. He was prominent in civic affairs and was one of the original trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital. His grave is in the old burying-ground on Boston Common, marked by the inscription, In works of Love he found his happiness. These family traits were bequeathed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson and were in no way weakened by the transmission. Combined with these was an ardent
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
98; (war) 220, 222, 229, 233- 35, 237, 248, 249; goes to Fayal, 163-65; on Kansas troubles, 175; moves to Newport, 235; invalidism, 255, 256, 287; Aunt Jane drawn from, 280; housekeeping, 288, 289; death, 290, 291. Higginson, Stephen, Ist (great-grandfather of T. W. H.), account of, I. Higginson, Stephen, 2d (grandfather of T. W. H.), career, 1, 2. Higginson, Stephen, Life and Times of, 427; begun, 392. Higginson, Stephen, 3d, father of T. W. H., account of. 1, 2, 5; called Man of Ross, 2; marriage, 5; hospitality, 6; death, 7, 19; and Harvard College, 8, 9; son's verses about, 8. Higginson, Stephen, brother of T. W. H., 11, 18. Higginson, Thacher, 14, fatal voyage of, 6, 38; J. R. Lowell's letter to, 14. Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, ancestry, 1-4; name, 5; and his Aunt Nancy, 5, 6, 10, 16-18, 57, 77, 87, 122, 129, 146, 147; tribute to mother, 7, 56; his father, 7, 8; and Phi Beta Kappa, 8, 34, 35; childhood, 10-20; his home, 12; school, 12, 14, 15; his mother abou