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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1859. (search)
re expected to be, by those who best knew his abilities. In the winter of 1854, while a boy yet under sixteen years of age, his attention was drawn by apparently slight causes to an investigation of the Roman Catholic belief. He attended Father Gavazzi's lectures in Boston, and heard the doctrines of purgatory, the intercession of the saints, transubstantiation, the infallibility of the Church, etc., explained, and then attacked by the reverend lecturer. With the boy listener, the explanatest be learned through an extract from his autobiography in the Class-Book, written at the time of graduation:— The most important event in my past life is my conversion to the Catholic religion, which was brought about by the lectures of Gavazzi and by the Know-Nothing calumnies of 1854, which inspired me with a spirit of inquiry, and ended in forcing my reason to accept and submit to the teachings of that Church which I had always been taught to despise. In August, 1854, after about e
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
Freeman, H , II. 362. Fremont, J. C., Maj.-Gen., . I 162, 364; II. 350. French, E. S., II. 372. Fricker, Lieut., II. 252. Frothingham, E. G., Jr., Dr., II. 35. Frothingham, O. B., Rev., I. 44. Fuller, A. B., Memoir, I. 72-86. Fuller, Margaret, I. 72. Fuller, Thomas, I. 73. Fuller, Timothy, I. 72. Fuller, Timothy, Rev., I. 73. Furness, H. H., I. 311. G. Gansevoort, Col., I. 303. Gardner, Francis, II. 43, 208;, 363. Garrison, W. P., II. 159. Gavazzi, Father, II. 45, 46;. Gelray, J. W., Major, II. 137. Gholson, Ann Jane, II. 237. Gholson, S. C., II. 237. Gholson, W. Y., Jr., Capt., Memoir, I. 237-242. Gholson, Thomas, II. 237. Gholson, Thomas, Jr., II. 237. Gibbon, John, Maj.-Gen., I. 92, 430;, 431; H. 100, 428, 454. Gillmore, Q. A., Maj.-Gen., I. 373. Glasgow, Mr., II. 237. Goldsborough, Com. . II. 108, 109;, 110, 254. Goodhue, Clarissa, II. 230. Goodhue, S., II. 230. Goodrich, Allen, I. 126. G