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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, I: Inheritance (search)
I: Inheritance
Thomas Wentworth Higginson came from a race of large-minded, free-handed men. Beginning with the Reverend Francis Higginson, of Puritan fame, and coming down through the line of his descendants, we see a striking repetition of certain traits and habits.
Confining ourselves, for instance, to the successive Stephen Higginsons, born in Salem,— Wentworth Higginson's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather,—we find them all upright and fearless, actively interested in the general welfare, leaders in public affairs, and extending a ready and never empty hand to the unfortunate.
They were bred to mercantile life, and two of the three met with various reverses in fortune, which never embittered their lives or made them less philanthropic.
Stephen, the grandfather, having married at the age of twenty, and finding his income not sufficient for family needs, embarked upon the seas, commanding one of his father's ships at twenty-one.
He continued a bold and successfu