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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies

he was careless of his personal comforts, and negligent in the matter of dress. The results were not remunerative; and at the end of two years, disheartened by the pecuniary embarrassments into which he had fallen, he suddenly disappeared, and, with only five dollars in his pocket, made his way to the West, where, for a time, he found employment as surveyor and civil engineer, and was on the point of setting out across the plains for California, when he was taken ill, and returned to Massachusetts, where he taught school for a while at Barnstable. It was about this time also, it is supposed, that he went on a fishing-voyage to the Banks of Newfoundland. After he had been absent more than a year from South Paris, his friends there having removed the causes which had led to his abrupt departure, gladly welcomed him back; and he resumed his position at the head of the Oxford Normal Institute, which he continued to hold for nearly five years longer, but, failing still to make it pro

vermore, Maine, June 30, 1821. He was the son of Ebenezer and Louisa (Pierce) Hinds, and the fifth in descent from Ebenezer Hinds, who was, in 1776, a Presbyterian preacher in Middleboroa, Mass. He was also the fifth of the family who, from father to son, bore the same baptismal name. Middleboroa continued to be the residence of the family till 1801, when the grandfather and father of the subject of this memoir emigrated to Maine. His father was, for many years, a master ship-builder at Pittston, in that State, where he is still living. On entering college he first joined the class which graduated in 1843, but remained only during the Freshman year, when he left Cambridge and resumed school-teaching in order to provide the means of completing his college course; for he had already, before going to college, taught a great many common schools. On returning he joined the Class of 1844, in the second term of their Junior year, and remained with them till they graduated. His rank i

ademy then recently established at Westbrook, Maine; in 1847 a school was opened by him at Norway, in the same State, under the title of the Norway Liberal Institute; and in 1848 he became principal of the Oxford Normal Institute at South Paris, Oxford County, Maine, where his success as a teacher was very great, and drew to the new institution at one time as many as two hundred students. Here he taught all the higher branches to pupils of both sexes, and fitted a great number of young men for ill, and returned to Massachusetts, where he taught school for a while at Barnstable. It was about this time also, it is supposed, that he went on a fishing-voyage to the Banks of Newfoundland. After he had been absent more than a year from South Paris, his friends there having removed the causes which had led to his abrupt departure, gladly welcomed him back; and he resumed his position at the head of the Oxford Normal Institute, which he continued to hold for nearly five years longer, but,

look up and get a larger view of clear blue sky, and, once in a while, to look out upon the increasing prospect of distant hill and intervening ridges! His life in the woods proved not a bad training for the new career upon which he was about to enter, and, in the long probation of mud and discipline passed in Virginia in the winter of 1861-62, he had occasion to congratulate himself on having learned to make a sleeping berth, Aroostook fashion, of boughs well laid down. It was from Maysville, where his farm was situated, that he enlisted in the Seventh Regiment Maine Volunteers, Company I, composed chiefly of men from that and the adjoining townships. Declining, with characteristic modesty, a lieutenant's commission, he entered the service as a private, saying that he thought he could serve his country better in that capacity than in any other. He was mustered in on the 21St of August, 1861, and left Augusta with the regiment for Baltimore, August 23. The following extra

Vols. (Infantry), August 21, 1861. died August 17, 1862, on board steamer State of Maine, of disease contracted in the service. Ebenezer Pierce Hinds was born, a801, when the grandfather and father of the subject of this memoir emigrated to Maine. His father was, for many years, a master ship-builder at Pittston, in that Sthome. . . . . My health is good as usual, though I should be stronger were I in Maine. You ask if I was in any of the battles. Not exactly, but nearly in two or thhurt . . . . As I have told you before, have no fears for me. I shall return to Maine. May not this year . . . . We shall have peace some time. Our country can haveninsula. The steamer in which he was embarked bore the name of his native State of Maine, to which, in his last letter, he had so confidently predicted his return. adopted by his family. According to the Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of Maine for the year 1862, it occurred a few days later. He died unmarried.

Supplementary biographies. 1844. Ebenezer Pierce Hinds. Private 7th Maine Vols. (Infantry), August 21, 1861. died August 17, 1862, on board steamer State of Maine, of disease contracted in the service. Ebenezer Pierce Hinds was born, according to the entry made by himself in the Class-Book, at Livermore, Maine, JuneEbenezer Pierce Hinds was born, according to the entry made by himself in the Class-Book, at Livermore, Maine, June 30, 1821. He was the son of Ebenezer and Louisa (Pierce) Hinds, and the fifth in descent from Ebenezer Hinds, who was, in 1776, a Presbyterian preacher in Middleboroa, Mass. He was also the fifth of the family who, from father to son, bore the same baptismal name. Middleboroa continued to be the residence of the family till 180Hinds, and the fifth in descent from Ebenezer Hinds, who was, in 1776, a Presbyterian preacher in Middleboroa, Mass. He was also the fifth of the family who, from father to son, bore the same baptismal name. Middleboroa continued to be the residence of the family till 1801, when the grandfather and father of the subject of this memoir emigrated to Maine. His father was, for many years, a master ship-builder at Pittston, in that State, where he is still living. On entering college he first joined the class which graduated in 1843, but remained only during the Freshman year, when he left Cambridg

Supplementary biographies. 1844. Ebenezer Pierce Hinds. Private 7th Maine Vols. (Infantry), August 21, 1861. died August 17, 1862, on board steamer State of Maine, of disease contracted in the service. Ebenezer Pierce Hinds was born, according to the entry made by himself in the Class-Book, at Livermore, Maine, June 30, 1821. He was the son of Ebenezer and Louisa (Pierce) Hinds, and the fifth in descent from Ebenezer Hinds, who was, in 1776, a Presbyterian preacher in Middleboroa, Mass. He was also the fifth of the family who, from father to son, bore the same baptismal name. Middleboroa continued to be the residence of the family till 1801, when the grandfather and father of the subject of this memoir emigrated to Maine. His father was, for many years, a master ship-builder at Pittston, in that State, where he is still living. On entering college he first joined the class which graduated in 1843, but remained only during the Freshman year, when he left Cambridge

Livermore, Maine, June 30, 1821. He was the son of Ebenezer and Louisa (Pierce) Hinds, and the fifth in descent from Ebenezer Hinds, who was, in 1776, a Presbyterian preacher in Middleboroa, Mass. He was also the fifth of the family who, from fatheat number of young men for Bowdoin College, where it was said that no candidates for admission came so well prepared as Mr. Hinds's scholars. He was an enthusiastic teacher, sparing no pains or expense to perfect his methods of instruction,—hiring d that it was not as a private soldier that he could best serve his country. The regiment was soon after brigaded, and Mr. Hinds was provided with employment better suited to his capacity,—being detailed as clerk to the brigade commissary. His dutough the Peninsular Campaign and took part in most of its battles, greatly distinguishing itself on several occasions. Mr. Hinds was the occasional chronicler of its fame in the columns of the Aroostook Pioneer, whose editor was his neighbor and fr