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 HENRY, HIGGINS< IN. 299 While in Boston attending lectures, he was with C. E. Tappan & Co., and their succes- sors, F. M. Loring & Co. He returned to Holyoke after gradua- tion, and was with Dr. L. M. Tuttle and E. W. Gridley, druggists, until June, 1882. Since the autumn of 1882, he has been in the storage-warehouse business for himself. Mr. Hemphill was chairman of the Re- publican city committee of Holyoke for several years ; organized the Holyoke Re- publican Club in 1888, and was its secretary during the Harrison and Morton campaign ; has been chairman of the board of regis- trars of voters since its organization under the law of 1884. He was in the House of Representatives in 1SS1, and again in '85 ; was on the committee on printing in 1881 ; in 1885 was chairman of committee on print- ing, and on public health. He has written for local papers on polit- ical and economic subjects. His residence is Windsor Hotel, Hol- yoke. He is an active worker in the Re- publican party ; has been a delegate to every state convention held in Massachu- setts since 1SS1. HENRY, Benjamin Thomas, the son of John and Jane (Farmer) Henry, was born in Boston, May 12, 1858. The only education he received was that at the common school of his native place. Upon leaving school he went into a printing-office and learned the printing trade. He was for several years engaged in a printing-office in West Newton, and afterward worked in the " Franklin Senti- nel " office. He then removed to Rowe, and commenced business as a merchant, which business he still carries on. Mr. Henry has served on the school committee for three years. He is also town clerk, treasurer, trustee of the public library, and has been postmaster since 1884. He is much interested in the Unitarian society of Rowe, in which he is chairman of the parish committee, and parish clerk. He was married at Rowe, February 16, 1886, to Anna Laura, the daughter of Rob- ert and I, aura Z. (Ballon) Wells of Rowe. He has one child, a daughter. HERRICK, HENRY K., son of Thomas and Mary Ann (Knox) Herrick, was born at Blandford, Hampden county, on the 24th day of August, 1839. His preliminary education was acquired at the public schools as opportunity was offered, while from his earliest boyhood, labor upon the farm claimed his attention, and at the age of twenty-four he began in- dependent farming, which vocation he has followed successfully throughout his life. On the 20th of November, 1862, he was married at Blandford, to Sarah E., daugh- ter of Lewis and Mary E. (Cook) Parks. Their children are : Hattie P., Jennie M. and Sadie E. Herrick. Mr. Herrick has filled almost all of the offices of responsibility in his native town of Blandford, where he still resides. He was town clerk for one year, and select- man, assessor, and overseer of the poor for six years in succession. He is at present chairman of the school committee, and president of the Union Agricultural Society of Blandford, which office he has held for two years. He has at different times been director, secretary, chief-marshal, vice-president, and delegate to the state board of agriculture for three years for the above society. In 1886 he was elected to the state Legislature by the Democrats, the district comprising at the time six towns. H1GGINSON, Thomas Wentworth, the son of Stephen and Louisa (Storrow) Higginson, was born in Cambridge, Middle- sex county, December 22, 1823. He is in the seventh generation of descent from the Rev. Francis Higginson, an Eng- lish clergyman, who, for conscience' sake, in 1629, exchanged his position in the bosom of the old church for the toilsome experi- ence of a New England Puritan minister. He was settled over the first parish in Salem, and in his day was not unknown as an author. The subject of our sketch was graduated from Harvard University in the class of 1841, and spent the customary years in study for a profession, and was graduated from the divinity school. He was settled as pastor of the First church in Newbury- port in 1847, and after being dismissed from that parish because of anti-slavery preaching, he organized the Free church in Worcester, where he remained nearly six years. During these years he was an enthusiastic soldier in the anti-slavery ranks, whose work it was to prepare the way for freedom, and was the intimate associate and friend of Garrison, Parker, Phillips, and other famous leaders in the great movement. He, with the two dis- tinguished agitators, was indicted for com- plicity in the attempt to rescue Anthony Burns from the hands of the federal authorities. His theories were not formulated senti- ment merelv, for early in the civil war, he