Approved Pension File for Mary T. Higginson, Widow of Colonel Thomas W. Higginson, 33rd U.S. Colored Troops Infantry Regiment (XC-2683709)

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Approved Pension File for Mary T. Higginson, Widow of Colonel Thomas W. Higginson, 33rd U.S. Colored Troops Infantry Regiment (XC-2683709)

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Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911

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Higginson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 22, 1823. He was a descendant of Francis Higginson, a Puritan minister and immigrant to the colony of Massachusetts Bay. His father, Stephen Higginson (born in Salem, Massachusetts, November 20, 1770; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 20, 1834), was a merchant and philanthropist in Boston and steward of Harvard University from 1818 until 1834. His grandfather, also named Stephen Higginson, was a member of the Continental Congre...