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bellion, holding the rank of lieutenant-colonel of tile regiment sent from Boston for that purpose. He published Examination of Jay's Treaty by Cato (1795); and numerous essays. He died in Boston. Mass., Nov. '?:. 1S:2S.

HIGQINSON, Thomas Wentworth, author, was lK)rn in Cambridge, Mass., Dec. '2'i, \S'2'3 ; son of Stephen and Louisa (Storrow) Higginson ; grandson of Stephen and Susan (Cleveland) Hig- ginson. and a descendant of the Rev. Francis Higginson (1588-1G30). He prepared for college at the i>rivate scliool of William Wells ; was graduated from Harvard in lf^41. and taught for a time in Mr. Weld's school at Jamaica Plain, Mass., later becoming a pri- vate tutor in the fami- ly of his cousin, Ste- phen Higginson Per- kins, of Bi-ookline. His first intention was to become a law- yer, but he aban- r^^uff>L. doned it to study theology, and was gi'aduated from Harvard divinity school in 1847. His first charge was in Newburj-port, where he was pastor of the First Religious society until 1850. He became somewhat unpopular be- cause of his anti-slavery views and his active in- terest in politics, especially as he allowed himself to be nominated for representative in congress in 1848. After resigning his puli)it he remained two years in Newburyport, teaching classes, writing for the newspapers, and organizing eve- ning schools. In 1852 he was called to the Wor- cester, Mass., Free church, and remained there until 1858, wlien he finally left the ministry to devote himself to literary work. In 1854 he was the leader of an attempt to rescue Anthony Burns, the fugitive slave, from prison, receiving a sabre cut in the face and being indicted for the murder of one of the deputies. He was released on a technicality. In 1856 he went to Kansas to assist in organizing the free-state movement, and later became the friend and confidant of John Brown of Osawatomie. At the beginning of the civil war he recruited a company of infantry in Worcester, and afterward was appointed colonel of a regiment of freed slaves, the first regiment of this kind to be mustered into the U. S. serv- ice. He was wounded at Wiltown Bluff. S.C, in August, 1H6:5. and the following year was obliged to resign on account of disability. He re- sumed hisliterary work, residingat Newport, R.I. , until 1878, when he returned to Cambridge, Mass.

He was appointed chief of staff to Governor John D. Long in 1880, and in 1880 and 1881 was a representative in the state legislature. He was state military and naval historian, 1889-91, and in this capacity he compiled " Massachusetts in the Army and Navy '" (2 volumes). In 1896 he piesenteil unconditionally to the Boston Public lil)rary his " Galatea collection of books relating to the history of woman," numbering about one thousand volumes. He was elected a member of the Massachusetts Historical society and of the American Historical association and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Harvard conferred upon him the degrees of A.M. in 1869 and LL.D. in 1898, and Western Reserve gave him that of LL.D. in 1896. He is the author of : Thalatta (with Samuel Longfellow, 1853) ; Out-door Papers (1863) ; Malhone, an Oldport Romance (1869) ; Army Life in a Black Regiment (1870) ; Atlantic Essays (1871) ; The Sympathy of Rel if/ions (1871, translated into French) ; Oldport Days (1873) ; Young Fulks' History of the United States (1875 ; translated into French, 1875. Italian and German, 1876) ; History of Education in Rhode Island {181Q) ; Young Folks' Book of Ameri- can Explorers (1877) ; Short Studies of American Authors (1879) ; Common sense about Women (1881, translated into German) ; lAfe of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1884) ; Larger History of the United States (1885) ; The Monarch of Dreams (1886, trans- lated into French and German ) ; Hiu ts on ^Vriting andS2)eechmaking(lHS7) ; Women and Men{\888) ; Travellers and Outlatos (1880) ; The Afternoon Landscape (1890) ; The New World and the New Book (1891) ; Life of the Rev. Francis Higginson (1891) ; Concerning all of us (1892) ; Such As They Are (witii his wife, Mary Thaeher Higginson, 1893) ; Book and Heart : Essays on Literature and Life (1897) ; Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic (1898) ; Ch"erful Yesterdays (\8'd8) \ Old Cambridge (1809); Contemporaries (1899); besides several translations and edited works, and numerous contributions to periodical litera- ture

HILBORN, Samuel Greeley, representative, was born in Minot, IMaine, Dec. 9, 1834 ; son of Samuel and Nancy (Noyes) Ililborn, grandson of Robert and Lucy (Riggs) Ililborn. and a de- scendant of Thomas Ililborn. native of England, who settled near Philadelphia, Penn., in the lat- ter part of the seventeenth century. He was pre- pared for college at Hebron and Gould's acade- mies, and was graduated from Tufts college in 1«59. He was a<lmitted to the bar in 1861, and began the prnctice of law in Vallejo, Solano county, Cal. He served in the California senate, 1875-79. was a member of the constitutional con- vention of 1H79 : and in 1883 was ajipointed U.S. district attorney for the district of California,