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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1861. (search)
ar School in Cambridgeport when seventeen years of age, and rapidly fitted himself to enter the Cambridge High School, where he remained four years, under the instruction of Mr. William F. Bradbury. He completed the prescribed course in 1857, and entered Harvard College the same year, then twenty-two years old. Owing to pecuniary embarrassments, he left college at the close of the first term of the Sophomore year, and entered the Dane Law School. He afterwards studied in the office of J. P. Richardson, Esq., in Cambridge, was admitted to the bar June 21, 1860, and appointed a justice of the peace on the 30th of August in the same year. He practised law in Charlestown and Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, for two years, with good success,—being associated with Mr. Tweed in the former place, and with Mr. William F. Engley, in the latter. In the summer of 1862, when government was urgently calling for enlistments, and men were greatly needed for their country's protection, he responded