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Source: Manistee the salt city of the unsalted seas - Published 1910
Image of John Higgins
John A. Higgins was born in
Saratoga County, N. Y., June 9th, 1857, coming to Manistee in 1872,
the summer succeeding the great fire. Where the Court house now
stands there was only a grim waste of blackened hemlock stubs.
The boy of fifteen shouldered a pack almost immediately upon his
arrival, accompanying Edward McLaughlin, a land looker, into the
lumber woods, these trips often lasting for three months.
He clerked for Seymour Bros, for some time, afterwards clerking for
Geo. M. Kanouse in the old City Hotel and when the Dunham House was
opened by Mr. Kanouse, Mr. Higgins became its first clerk. In the
Fall of 1888 he ran the first passenger train over the Manistee &
Northeastern R, R., the line at that time terminating at Bear Creek.
He was with the Railroad Company eighteen years, resigning December
15th, 1906, after having been elected Sheriff of Manistee County. At
this time he was tendered a banquet by the officials of the road and
his fellow employees, being presented with a very handsome token of
the esteem in which he was held by them.
Mr. Higgins has proven a very capable Sheriff, and upon his
retirement from that office at the close of the present year will
carry with him the best wishes of his many friends and constituents.
also
Source: A history of northern Michigan and its people, Volume 2 By
Perry Francis Powers, Harry Gardner Cutler - Published 1912
John A. Higgins.—
Although a native of the Empire state, thirty eight years of
residence in Manistee have made John A. Higgins, former sheriff and
for many years connected with the Manistee & Northeastern Railroad,
one of those who are very loyal to the interests of this part of the
state. Pew citizens of Manistee are better known and he is held in
general high esteem for he has ever cheerfully given his support to
those enterprises that tend to public development and, with hardly
an exception he has been connected with every interest that has
promoted public welfare. He is a stalwart Republican, having long
been at the forefront in local party affairs.
Mr. Higgins was born in Saratoga county, New York, June 9, 1857, and
in his veins unite the English and Irish elements, his father and
mother having been natives of England and Ireland, respectively.
When a young man of twenty-one, the former became attracted with the
idea of American independence and opportunity and crossed the
Atlantic to claim his share of the same, and it came about that he
located in the state of New York, where he remained until his death
at the age of fifty-six years. William Higgins, for such was
the name of the father, was a farmer by occupation. The mother,
whose maiden name was Ann Ross, was reared in her native
Erin. When Mr. Higgins was but five years of age he had the
misfortune to lose his mother, there being five children in the
family, and two of them younger than himself.
Mr. Higgins is one of the army of self-made men, for he started out
for himself at the age of thirteen years. The family resources were
low and as everyone knows, there is no arguing with necessity. When
he was fifteen his wanderings brought him to Manistee, which,
although he may have believed it to be merely an episode at the
time, was in reality a most important thing, for it was to determine
his location for the next forty years. His arrival was not at an
auspicious moment, for it was in the summer succeeding the great
fire, and where the court house now stands there was only a grim
waste of blackened hemlock stubs. He spent the fall and winter in
the woods, almost immediately shouldering a pack and accompanying
Edward McLaughlin, a land looker, into the lumber woods, these trips
often lasting for three months. The energetic young fellow then
secured a clerkship with Seymour Brothers, and following that he
became clerk for George M. Kanouse in the
old City Hotel and when the Dunham House was opened by Mr. Kanouse,
Mr. Higgins, who had earned the confidence of his employer, was
given the position of first clerk. From the fall of 1888 dates Mr.
Higgins' first identification with the railroad business, when the
Manistee & Northeastern Railroad was built, it being he who ran its
first passenger train over the road, the line at that time
terminating at Bear Creek. He was with the railroad company for
eighteen years and made a splendid record. He served in the capacity
of conductor and ever manifested that loyalty to duty which is to be
discerned in all his relations. He resigned December 15, 1906, after
having been elected sheriff of Manistee county, and at the time he
was tendered a banquet by the officials of the road and his fellow
employees, being presented with a very handsome token of the esteem
in which he was held by them.
As previously mentioned Mr. Higgins is one of the most enthusiastic
and active of Republicans, devoted to the policies and principles
for which the Grand Old Party stands sponsor and ever ready to go
anywhere, to do anything for the good of the party. In the capacity
of sheriff he gave service of a high character. In 1910 he was
delegate to the State Convention held in the city of Detroit.
In 1880, Mr. Higgins laid the foundation of a happy home life, the
lady to become his wife being Miss Nellie Barry, daughter of
David and Teresa Barry of Cheboygan, Wisconsin. Their
union has been cemented by the birth of six children, namely:
Raymond, William, Ray. Emeline, Frank
and Barry .
Mr. Higgins is popular in lodge circles. His affiliations extend to
the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, to the Knights of
Pythias, Brotherhood of Railway Conductors and to the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows,
Few railroad conductors in Northern Michigan are better and more
favorably known, his eighteen years' continuous service having been
of the most satisfactory character. His courtesy, geniality, and
other line qualities, will not allow him soon to be forgotten by the
patrons of the Manistee & Northeastern Railroad.
1930; Census Place:
Manistee, Manistee, Michigan; Roll: 1008; Page: 7A; Enumeration
District: 11; Image: 320 (No
Image Available)
Name Age
John A Higgins 73
HIGGINS-JOHN-A-62-M-W-NY-MI-MANISTEE-3-WD-MANISTEE-1920
Name Age
John A Higgens 62
Ellen Higgens 60
Theresa Barry 94
HIGGINS-JOHN-A-52-M-W-NY-MI-MANISTEE-2-WD-MANISTEE-1910
Name Age
John A Higgins 52
Nellie Higgins 51
Frank H Higgins 17
Joseph B Higgins 12
HIGGINS-JOHN-A-42-M-W-NY-MI-MANISTEE-2-WD-MANISTEE-1900
Name Age
John A Higgins 41
Nellie Higgins 41
William D Higgins 16
John R Higgins 14
Emily T Higgins 11
Frank H Higgins 7
Ward B Higgins 1
Josephine Zelinski 18
Household: 1880
Name Relation Marital Status
Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's
Birthplace
John HIGGINS Self M Male W 23 NY Saloon Keeper ENG IRE
Nellie HIGGINS Wife M Female W 22 WI Keep House IRE IRE
John KING Other S Male W 23 WI Bartender PRU PRU
Source Information:
Census Place 3rd And 4th Ward,
Manistee, Manistee, Michigan
Family History Library Film 1254593
NA Film Number T9-0593 Page Number 132A
- Census below is subject to user confirmation -
HIGGINS-WILLIAM-48-M-W-ENGL-NY-SARATOGA-GALWAY-1860
Name Age
William Higgins 48
Maria Higgins 40
Joseph Higgins 15
William Higgins 8
Ann Higgins 6
Elisabeth Higgins 5
John Higgins 3
Mary Higgins 1
Ann Ross 30
Peter Ross 2
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10 Jul 2010
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sanluisobispo/obituary.aspx?n=howard-john-higgins&pid=143746460#ixzz0t3733W4Y
Howard John Higgins, 86, was born in April 1924 in Marquette,
Mich., and died Tuesday, June 22, 2010. He was the oldest of seven
children Gerry, Agnes, Bob, Johnny,
Fran and Bill. Howard graduated in 1942 from Bishop
Baraga High School and served during World War II in the U.S. Marine
Corps having spent 33 months in the Pacific Theater, including
Hawaii, Midway and Marshall Islands. Following his discharge as a
Sergeant, he attended the Michigan College of Mining and Technology
in Houghton, Mich. While convalescing from a severe attack of
malaria, Howard took a ''temporary'' job with the Marquette Mining
Journal in the advertising department. His ''temporary'' association
lasted 10 years - he never returned to his preparation for an
engineering career. Howard was manager of the Ishpeming-Negaunee
Bureau Office of the Mining Journal and the Editor and Advertising
Manager of the Ski Sport for three years. He was secretary of the
Ishpeming Ski Club for five years and worked with the National Ski
Association in establishing the American Ski Hall of Fame in
Ishpeming. Howard joined the staff of the Telegram-Tribune as a
display advertising salesman in 1957 and was promoted to Advertising
Director in 1962. Howard loved spending time with family and
friends, wood-working, going to the beach, playing pool and spending
time at his ranch in Pozo. He was a lifetime member of the Marine
Corps Association, member of the Old Mission Church, Marine Corps
League Honor Guard, American Legion Post 66 and Veterans of Foreign
Wars and past trustee of the San Luis Obispo Elks Lodge. Howard is
survived by his two sons Greg Higgins (Beckie) and Jeff
Higgins (Pamela); six grandchildren Lindsey, Lauren,
Michael, Ben, Sam and Kate; two
great-grandchildren Audrey and Mary Higgins; and his
friend and companion, Barbara Hart of Cayucos. He was preceded in
death by his wife, Martha in 2003. A funeral Mass will be
celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday, June 28, 2010, at the Old Mission San
Luis Obispo. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Howard''s
name to the Alzheimer''s Association and Hospice of San Luis Obispo
County.
Published in San Luis Obispo
Tribune on June 25, 2010
Social Security Death Index
Name: Howard J. Higgins
Last Residence: 93405 San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California
Born: 20 Apr 1924 Died: 22 Jun 2010
State (Year) SSN issued: Michigan (Before 1951)
1930; Census Place:
Marquette, Marquette, Michigan; Roll 1010; Page: 12B; Enumeration
District: 20; Image: 670 (No Image Available)
Name Age
John Higgins 37 b. Mich Father Ireland Mother b. Mich Worker
Railroad
Lillie Higgins 30
Howard Higgins 5
Geraldine Higgins 3
Agnes Higgins 2
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23 Apr 2010
My husband is the grandson of Daisy
May Higgins (30 Jan 1896
Adams Co Indiana- 31 Mar 1976 Ionia Mich)
We have the following information. She married Harry C Drake
on 9 Oct 1919 in Portland Mi.
Her parents were Lee Sherman Higgins
(8 May 1868 Indiana - 7 Nov 1939
Michigan) and Etta Babcock
(12 Apr 1871 OH- 14 Oct 1934
MI). Sherman and Etta had 8
children: Lee Isaac, Clarence Marion, Daisy May,
Emma Lola, Selma Etta, Baby, Reuben Johnny,
and Mary Naomi.
Sherman's parents were: William Higgins
(1837 OH- 1 Jul 1911 IN)
and Rebecca Jane Beeman
(13 Apr 1840- 24 Jun 1900).
This is from family records and is backed up with historical records
on ancestry.com.
HIGGINS WILLIAM 35 M W OH IN ADAMS JEFFERSON TWP 1870
Name Age
William Higgins 35
Rebecca Higgins 30
Alfred Higgins 9
Phebe Higgins 7
Lee S Higgins 2
Household:1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation
Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
William HIGGINS Self M Male W 43 OH Farmer OH OH
Rebecca HIGGINS Wife M Female W 40 OH Wife OH OH
Alfred HIGGINS Son S Male W 19 IN At Home OH OH
Phebe HIGGINS Dau S Female W 16 IN At Home OH OH
Sherman HIGGINS Son S Male W 12 IN At Home OH OH
Source Information:
Census Place Hartford, Adams, Indiana
Family History Library Film 1254264
NA Film Number T9-0264 Page Number 107C
HIGGINS SHERMAN 32 M W IN IN ADAMS HARTFORD TWP 1900
Name Age
Sherman Higgins 32
Etta Higgins 29
Lee Higgins 8
Clarence Higgins 7
Daisy Higgins 3
Emma Higgins 1
A W Bodle 53
HIGGINS LEE 42 M W IN MI NEWAYGO ASHLAND TWP 1910
Name Age
Lee Higgins 42
Etta Higgins 40
Lee Higgins 18
Clarence Higgins 17
Daisy Higgins 19
Emma Higgins 11
Jolina Higgins 9
Ruben Higgins 4
Mary Higgins 2
HIGGINS L SHERMAN 52 M W IN MI IONIA 2-WD PORTLAND 1920
Image
1 &
2
Name Age
L Sherman Higgins 52
Etta Higgins 49
Reuben J Higgins 14
Mary N Higgins 11
Harry C Drake 26
Daisy M Drake 23
An 1850 census record (below) shows a Lewis Higgins (b 1807
PA) and wife Phoebe (b 1816 OH) with a son William (of the
correct age) living in Penn Co Ind. Lewis has tax assessment records
for 1862 in Calhoun Co MI as a physician and 1866 in Jackson Mi as a
photographer.
HIGGINS LEWIS 43 M W PA IN JAY PENN 1850
Name Age
Lewis Higgins 43 Blacksmith Born Pennsylvania
Phoebe Higgins 34 Born Ohio
William Higgins 14 Born Ohio
Louisa J Higgins 13 Born Ohio
Calvin C Higgins 11 Born Indiana
John W Higgins 9 Born Indiana
Semanthia A Higgins 4 Born Indiana
Can you add any other information to this?
Lewis seems to be an interesting character. Is he Williams father?
Who are his parents?
Thanks for any info,
Judi Drake
JADrake1 AT aol.com
more on this family
Also appears in 1840 Census
1840; Census Place: Jay, Indiana; Roll 83; Page: 87; Image: 182 (No
Image)
World War I Draft Registration Cards
Name: Lee Isaac Higgins County: Newaygo
State: Michigan Birthplace: Indiana; USA
Birth Date: 23 Nov 1891 Race: Caucasian (White)
Indiana Births
Name: Higgins
Father: L. S Mother: Etta Babcock
County: Adams Gender: Female Birth Date: 14 Jul 1900
Reference: Adams County, Indiana
Index to Birth Records 1882 - 1920 Inclusive
Volume I Letters A - Z Inclusive Book: H-6 Page: 43
Name: Mary N Higgins
Father: Sherman L. Mother: Etta Babcock
County: Adams Gender: Female Birth Date: 11 Mar 1908
Reference: Adams County, Indiana Index to Birth Records 1882 -
1920 Inclusive Volume I
Letters A - Z Inclusive Book: H-11 Page: 14
http://www.mckinleyfuneral.com/Obits/2004/obits/fern_higgins.htm
Mr. Fern G. Higgins, age 80 of Grant, died Thursday, March
25, 2004 at his residence near Grant. He was born Fern George
Higgins in Portland, Michigan the son of Eva Jane (Peterson)
and Lee Isaac Higgins on August 7, 1923. He married
Blanche Ellen Brown on February 2, 1946 in Grant, Michigan. He
was a for self-employed Dairy Farmer.
He is survived by his wife Blanche, his children Dawn Flanegan
of Grand Rapids, David & Melissa Higgins, George
Higgins, Loyd & Sueanna Higgins, Jerri & George Hitts
all of Grant, Joseph & Mary Higgins of Fremont, 12
grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren, his brothers & sisters
Clayton & Edna Higgins of Grant, Erma & Walt Bisard of
Ravenna, June Campbell of Muskegon, Buster & Lennie Higgins
of TN, Betty Bebee of Kent City, Bill & Paula Higgins
of Grant, Archie & Judy Higgins of Newaygo, Jim & Betty
Higgins of Grant, sisters-in-law Vivian Bignell,
Dorothy Stickel both of Sparta, several nieces & nephews.
Memorial services will be held at 1:00 P. M. from the Ashland Center
Cemetery, on Thursday, April 1, 2004, with Mr. David Joe Hatter
officiating. There will be no visitation. For Memorials please
consider Hospice of Michigan-Newaygo County.
McKinley Funeral Home, Grant, 231-834-5613. http:\\mckinleyfuneral.com
http://www.mckinleyfuneral.com/Obits/2004/obits/walter_j_bisard.htm
Walter James Bisard, aged 85, of Ravenna, passed away
Tuesday, May 4, 2004 at his home with his wife at his side. Walt was
born June 17, 1918 at the family farm near Bailey. He was the
youngest child of Walter Benjamin and Nellie Elizabeth (Batchelder)
Bisard. He was preceded in death by his parents and siblings
Mary Hale, Dottie Moore, Wayne, Allie, and
Howard Bisard. He is survived by his sister Florence Kuhn.
He attended Wheat School until the eighth grade and worked on the
farm until he married Erma Elaine Higgins on September 20, 1938 in
Elkhart, IN. He then worked for Muskegon Paper Mill and joined the
US Navy from June 22, 1944 until February 1, 1946 and saw extensive
action in the Pacific. After returning from the Navy, he worked for
the WPA building bridges near Grant and then worked at CWC in
Muskegon Hts. for 34 years.
He and his wife had three children, Pat (Sam) Hinton of North
Muskegon, Bill (Sue) Bisard of Mt. Pleasant, and baby
Stephen Charles who died in infancy. He has 5 grandchildren,
Kelly, Jody, Mark, Terry, and Bucky
and 9 great-grandchildren. Walt enjoyed his family, the Ravenna
farm, his garden and animals. He especially enjoyed his
grandchildren visiting his farm and he loved doing special things
with each of them. He was a very loyal American and a life member of
the VFW, American Legion, and Eagles. Walt will be sincerely missed
by his family, friends, and fellow veterans.
Funeral services will be held 11:00 A. M. Monday, May 10, 2004, at
the McKinley Funeral Home in Grant with Mr. David Joe Hatter
officiating. Interment will be in the Ashland Center Cemetery near
Grant. Visitation will be held 10-11 A. M. prior to the services.
For memorials please consider the Muskegon County Humane Society.
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22 Mar 2010
http://sanilaccountynews.mihomepaper.com/news/2009-10-14/Obituaries/SANFORD_W_SANDY_HIGGINS.html
SANFORD W. (SANDY) HIGGINS
SANDUSKY
Sanford W. (Sandy) Higgins, age 87, of Sandusky, died
Thursday, October 8, 2009 at McKenzie Memorial Hospital in Sandusky,
Michigan.
He was born April 13, 1922 in Sandusky, Michigan the son of the late
Wesley and Margaret (Loughren) Higgins.
He was a lifelong area resident and farmer. He also worked for 25
plus years at Marlette Homes in Marlette, Michigan.
Sanford married Dora K. Daws on June 19, 1948 in Peck,
Michigan. She died on November 2, 1991, he then married Maxine
Ross Muxlow on December 27, 1996.
He is survived by his wife, Maxine of Sandusky; three sons,
Lee (Diane) Higgins of Sandusky, Larry (Bonnie) Higgins
of Sandusky, Lawayne Higgins & Debra of Sandusky;
three daughters, Lorraine (Randy) Cramer of Sandusky, Lynn
(Gary) Cummins of Port Huron, Lucille Higgins of
Sandusky, Luann (Ray) Jagotka of Sandusky; husband of the
late Lavonne, Timothy Hendershot of Sandusky; one
step-son, Terry (Linda) Muxlow of Florida; one-stepdaughter,
Tim (Shelly) Frostick of Peck; many grandchildren and
great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by one daughter, Lavonne Hendershot
on February 28, 2009; one brother, Martin and two sisters,
Clara and Vera.
Funeral services were held at Countryside Free Methodist Church with
Rev. Paul Castle officiating.
Burial was in the Zion Cemetery in Sandusky.
Casket bearers - Sandy Higgins, Frank Higgins, Robert Cramer, Rodney
Cramer, Jason Geraldo, Ryan Geraldo.
- Webmaster's Findings -
1930; Census Place: Watertown,
Sanilac, Michigan; Roll 1028; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 38;
Image: 557 (No Image Available)
Name Age
Wesley C Higgins 49 b. Canada Farmer
Margaret M Higgins 47 b. Mich
Sanford W Higgins 7 b. Mich
Vera M Higgins 4 5/12 b. Mich
Martin E Thrower 19 Adopted Son b. Canada
Clara M Thrower 14 Adopted Daughter b. Canada
HIGGINS WESLEY 38 M W CANA MI SANILAC WATERTOWN 1920
Name Age
Wesley Higgins 38 b. Canada Farmer Year of Immigration 1889
Hannah Higgins 65 Mother b. Canada Year of Immigration 1889
Mary Underhill 22 Cousin b. Canada
HIGGINS HANNAH E 54 F W CANA MI SANILAC WATERTOWN TWP 1910
Name Age
Hannah E Higgins 54
Wesley C Higgins 28 Son
Joseph E Higgins 22 Son
Mary H Underhill 18 Niece
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SOURCE: PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES OF THE GOVERNORS OF MICHIGAN
WALTER A. HIGGINS.
One of the most beautiful farms in Jackson County, is that owned and
occupied by the gentleman above named, and comprising one hundred
and | fifty-three acres on section 21, Blackman Township. He has
lived on his present estate over twenty years and in that time has
brought it to a high degree of perfection both as regards its
cultivation and the improvements with which it is adorned. Among the
latter is a fine set of barns and a tasteful dwelling whose external
appearance but slightly indicates the pleasantness of its interior
appointments which are under the care of a model housekeeper. Mr.
Higgins is a lover of fine horses, is an extensive breeder of
equines, and takes great interest in everything pertaining to the
improvement and care of that stock.
Before outlining briefly the life of the gentleman above named a few
words regarding his parents will not be amiss. They were Jirah A.
and Almira (Symonds) Higgins, both natives of Connecticut,
who were married in Wyoming County, N. Y. and settled in the town of
Perry, where they lived about two years. They then spent a short
time in Ohio and returning to Wyoming County again made that their
home, removing thence in 1844 and taking up their residence in
Brooklyn, this county. Since that time they have spent nine years in
Lenawee County and two in Indiana, the remainder of the time from
their emigration to this State has been spent in this county. The
mother is still living, but the father died in Jackson in April.
1878.
Walter Higgins was born in Conneaut, Ohio, September 11,
1835, and came to Michigan when about nine years old, growing to
manhood in this county, where he spent the greater number of his
years since boyhood. He was reared on a farm and has always been
engaged in the pursuit of agriculture. He was with his parents two
years in Indiana and about nine years in Lenawee County, this State,
close to the Jackson County line, and in that county, March 18,
1863, he became the husband of Miss Mattie A. Bates. After
his marriage he continued to live with his father some seven years,
subsequently settling on the Alonzo Bennett farm, west of Jackson,
and four years later locating on the section where he now lives.
The parents of Mrs. Higgins, the late Joseph and Maty A.
(Eaton) Bates, were natives of New York, in which State they
were married and began their wedded life, and in which Mr. Bates
died. The widow afterward came to Michigan, her removal being made
about the year 1857, and her choice of a location being Jackson
County. She died near Brooklyn in 1869, having reared six children,
of whom Mrs. Higgins is the fourth. This lady was born near
Syracuse, N. Y., March 23, 1842, being about fifteen years old when
she came with her mother to Michigan, where she grew to womanhood.
She possesses intelligence of a high order, noble traits of
character and an open-hearted spirit, and altogether is one of those
fine types of womanhood born to warn, to comfort, to command," who
are alt too few in this world of ours, but who, once seen, are ever
remembered as examples of what human nature is capable of. To Mr.
and Mrs. Higgins two children have been born: Metta C, and
Harry A; the daughter is the wife of John S. Hutchinson
of Jackson.
Mr. Higgins is a Democrat of the staunchest sort. Interested in the
welfare and progress of his party, although not personally an office
seeker. He takes great interest in the schools and in other
enterprises which conduce to the higher civilization and welfare of
the community. He is hospitable and whole-souled, and his success in
life has been such that he is enabled to gratify his tastes, while
the housewifely skill of his wife gives him no fear I should an
unexpected guest cross the threshold. The affairs of the home are
sowed conducted as to ; afford pleasure to all who enter there,
displaying as I it does the taste of a cultured woman whose ready j
wit and bright intelligence are prime factors in the | entertainment
of guests.
also
SOURCE: HISTORY OF JACKSON
COUNTY, MICHIGAN - Published 1881
Jirah A. Higgins was born at East Haddam, Conn., Dec. 8, 1809, and
settled at Jackson in May, 1844
Mrs. Almira Higgins, born at East Hartford, Conn., in June, 1818;
came West with her husband
Source: Jackson City and
County Directory 1883
Almira S. Higgins (Widow of Jirah A.) res. 324 N. Cortland
Source: Jackson City and
County Directory 1897
Almira Higgins (aged 94) died March 10, 1896 (Widow of Jirah)
HIGGINS JIRAH A 39 M W CT MI JACKSON NAPOLEON 1850
Name Age
Jirah Higgins 39
Almira Higgins 39
Walter Higgins 14
Francis Higgins 12
HIGGINS JIRA A 49 M W CT MI LENAWEE CAMBRIDGE 1860
Name Age
Jira A Higgins 49
Almira Higgins 51
Walter A Higgins 22
HIGGINS JARIAH A 61 M W CT MI JACKSON 2-WD JACKSON 1870
Name Age
Jariah H Higgins 61
Almira Higgins 59
Mira Higgins 9
HIGGINS WALTER A 35 M W OH MI JACKSON BLACKMAN TWP 1870
Name Age
Walter A Higgins 35
Matter Higgins 28
Nettie Higgins 7
Libbie Bates 32
Household:1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation
Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Walter A. HIGGINS Self M Male W 45 OH Farmer CT CT
Mattie A. HIGGINS Wife M Female W 38 NY Keeping House NY NY
Mettie C. HIGGINS Dau S Female W 17 MI House Keeper OH NY
Harry A. HIGGINS Son S Male W 8 MI In School OH NY
Source Information:
Census Place Blackman, Jackson, Michigan
Family History Library Film 1254585
NA Film Number T9-0585 Page Number 6C
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Source: The book of Detroiters: a biographical dictionary of leading
living men of The City of Detroit - edited by Albert Nelson Marquis
- Published 1914
HIGGINS, Charles J., banker; born, Detroit,
Nov. 27, 1871; son of James J. and Mary (Grensel) Higgins;
educated Holy Trinity Parochial School; A.B., Detroit College, 1889;
married, June 15, 1898, Nellie Mclnerney, of Bay City, Mich.;
children: Neil, Maurice. Began in employ of People's
Savings Bank, Detroit, 1890, and became paying teller; also paying
teller of People's State Bank, after consolidation of People's and
State Savings Banks; went to Jackson, Mich., as cashier Central
State Bank, continuing 3 1/2 years; returned to Detroit, 1911, as
cashier new Metropolitan State Bank, of which was elected
vice-president, 1912. Republican. Roman Catholic. Member Knights of
Columbus, Knights of Equity, Detroit Chapter, American Institute of
Banking. Recreation: music. Office: Metropolitan State Bank.
Residence: 130 Westminster Ave.
Household:1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age
Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
James HIGGINS Self M Male W 36 MI Iron Molder IRE IRE
Mary HIGGINS Wife M Female W 29 MI Keeping House BAVARIA CAN
Charles HIGGINS Son S Male W 8 MI MI MI
George HIGGINS Son S Male W 6 MI MI MI
John HIGGINS Son S Male W 4 MI MI MI
Edward HIGGINS Son S Male W 1 MI MI MI
Source Information:
Census Place District 295, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan
Family History Library Film 1254613
NA Film Number T9-0613 Page Number 39B
1900; Census Place: Detroit Ward 2, Wayne, Michigan; Roll T623_747;
Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 20 (No Image
Available)
Name Age
Charles Higgins 28
Nellie Higgins 28
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09 Jan 2010
Source: A Twentieth Century History of
Cass County (Mich) By L. H. GLOVER - Published 1906
HON. THOMAS T. HIGGINS,
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image to enlarge
For many years Hon. Thomas T. Higgins has been regarded as a
representative and prosperous farmer of Cass county, and at the
present time he is making a notable record as a member of the
general assembly, being now for the second term representative from
his district in the Michigan legislature. To the energetic natures
and strong mentality of such men is due the success and ever
increasing prosperity of the Republican party, in this state and in
the hands of this class of citizens there is every assurance that
the best interests and welfare of the party will be attended to,
resulting in a successful culmination of the highest ambitions and
expectations entertained by its adherents. Throughout his life Mr.
Higgins has been a loyal citizen, imbued with patriotism and
fearless in defense of his honest convictions, and he is now
advocating in legislative halls and before the people the principles
which he believes will best advance the welfare of the commonwealth.
Such is the man whose life history forms the theme of this article.
He makes his home on section 17, Jefferson township, and when not
engaged with the weighty duties of his office his time and energies
are concentrated upon the successful conduct of what is one of the
best improved farms in Cass county.
Mr. Higgins was born in Randolph county, Indiana, on the 10th of
February, 1844, and is of Irish lineage, the family having been
founded in America early in the eighteenth century. The name Higgins
was known in the old Emerald Isle as Higginson, but now is known as
Higgins. The representatives of the name in America are descended
from Thomas Higgins, an early settler of Delaware, and the family
has furnished to various states prominent representatives, who have
held important public positions. This number includes Governor
Higgins, of New York, who is a second cousin of the subject of this
review. His paternal grandfather, Joseph Higgins, was a
native of Ireland. His father, James T. Higgins, was born in
Wilmington, Delaware, at the old home of the family in 1807, and
there spent the days of his boyhood and youth, while in the public
schools he acquired his education. In 1829, when a young man of
twenty-two years, President Andrew Jackson gave him charge
of the mail route from New Castle to Fort Delaware. While still a
young man he assumed the work of grading the first interurban
railroad in the country, from New Castle to Chesapeake Bay, working
under Joseph Cannon. Much of his life, however, was devoted to
agricultural pursuits. He was married in the east but at an early
day the spirit of the pioneer led him to the wilds of Indiana, and
for some time he resided in Randolph county, whence in 1858 he came
to Cass county, Michigan, settling in LaGrange township, where he
purchased a tract of land and improved a farm. He voted for
McClellan in 1864, but early gave his political support to the
Republican party. However, he cast his ballot for Fremont, its first
presidential candidate, and for Lincoln in i860. He wedded Miss Mary
Higgins, who was a native of New Jersey and was descended from the
same ancestry. She lived to be fifty-nine years of age, while James
T. Higgins, the father, reached the very venerable age of ninety-one
years. In their family were eight children, three sons and five
daughters, all of whom grew to manhood or womanhood, but only three
are now living: Thomas T., of this review; George; and Mary, the
wife of William Hass, of LaGrange township.
Hon. Thomas T. Higgins was the eldest son and fifth child in his
father's family. He was reared in Richmond, Wayne county, and in
Randolph county, Indiana, and was a youth of sixteen years when he
came with his parents to Cass county, Michigan. His early education
had been acquired in the schools of Richmond, and he afterward
continued his studies in w7hat is known as the Mechanicsburg school
in LaGrange township. He has largely been dependent upon his own
resources from the age of sixteen years and his inherent force of
character, his utilization of opportunity and his unremitting
diligence in everything that he has undertaken have constituted the
basis of his success. When about twenty-one years of age he went
south and was employed as government teamster for about three
months. This was at the close of the war. He then returned to Cass
county, where he began farming on his own account and throughout his
active business career he has carried on general
agricultural pursuits.
In 1867 Mr. Higgins was united in marriage to Miss Caroline
Rathbum, a daughter of Lucius and Sarah (Click)
Rathbum and a native of Jefferson township, her people having
located in Jefferson township, Cass county, at a very early day. Mr.
Higgins lived upon his father's farm for a time and afterward upon
his father-in-law's property, but in 1869 took up his abode upon the
farm on which he now resides on section 17, Jefferson township. At
that time only twenty acres of land had been cleared and cultivated.
He at once, however, continued the work of development, placed. the
greater part of the land under the plow and has put all of the
improvements upon the property, which is now a splendidly cultivated
farm, comprising two hundred acres of rich and arable land, from
which he annually harvests large crops. His first home was a log
cabin, but this has long since been replaced by a more commodious
and substantial modern residence. In all of his farm work he is
energetic and painstaking. He thoroughly understands his business,
and in fact thoroughness is one of his marked characteristics,
manifest in all that he has undertaken in every relation of life. He
is also thoroughly reliable in his business transactions, his name
being a synonym for integrity and straightforward dealing.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Higgins have been born five children: J. P.,
who is now living in Dowagiac, wedded Miss Mabel Palmer and
is engaged in real estate; Florence, who is the wife of
Fred Shurter, a resident farmer of Jefferson township; Claude,
who was a mail carrier on a rural route, but now an agriculturist;
he wedded Leona Gifford; Leila, the wife of Fred
Whitmore, also living in Jefferson township; and Elsie,
the wife of Henry AtLee, of the state of Washington.
In April, 1871, Mr. Higgins was made a Mason and is one of the
oldest representatives of Cassopolis lodge. He also belongs to the
Chapter at Cassopolis and is a prominent representative of the
fraternity here. In politics he has always been a stanch Republican,
taking an "active interest in the local work of the party and doing
everything in his power to insure its success. He has held various
local offices, but still higher political honors awaited him, for in
1903 he was chosen to represent his district in the state
legislature by a vote of two hundred and fifty-two. He proved an
active working member of the house and that his constituents
regarded favorably his efforts in their behalf is shown by the fact
that in 1905 he was re-elected by a largely increased majority of
nine hundred. He has delivered various campaign speeches and is a
forceful, earnest speaker, and is today accounted one of the
prominent representatives of the party in the county. He has also
left the impress of his individuality upon state legislation. He has
never pretended to be an orator and the members of the house who at
first were not inclined to pay much attention to the speeches of the
farmer representative soon found out that they had to cope with a
force on which they had little reckoned. His earnestness and his
honesty were not alone his strong characteristics, although these
traits are most commendable. His fellow members found, too, that he
had been a student of the questions and issues of the day and that
he had a keen and shrewd insight into matters which came up for
discussion. A publication of recent date said: "He is always steady
and honest and when he set himself the other day to oppose the
attorney general s bill to allow the institution in Ingham county of
state cases against parties ^f *dl sections of the state he won a
victory. The house voted the bill down. His speech on that occasion
is regarded as his best address to the legislature." Mr. Higgins
also won wide attention by a plan for the solution of the primary
reform problem and his suggestion won approval from both wings in
the reform fight. In regard to this measure the reporter for the
work of the house, H. M. Nimmoy said: "Representative Higgins of
Cass has come forward with a solution of the primary reform muddle
that has already found favor with several of the opponents of direct
nominations, including Governor Warner. His compromise proposition
is this: Retain the state conventions to name candidates to be
placed on the party ballots and give the people a chance to choose
the nominee by direct vote from among the candidates for state
offices so endorsed. Higgins has also accepted the suggestion that
each candidate be endorsed by at least twenty-five per cent of the
delegates of the state convention before his name can go on the
ballot. His measure has received the endorsement of many men
prominent in the ranks of the Republican party, including Governor
Warner, Chairman Stone of the house elections committee, banking
commissioner Moore and others." As stated, Mr. Higgins has made
himself felt as a forceful factor in the affairs of the
commonwealth, and that he has won the confidence and support of his
fellow citizens is indicated by the fact of his largely increased
majority at his second election. His career has been one of
activity, full of incidents and results, and by his excellent public
service and upright life he has honored the community that has
honored him with official preferment.
Source: Michigan manual By Michigan. Dept. of State, Michigan. Dept.
of Administration, Michigan. Dept. of Management and Budget
THOMAS T. HIGGINS,
Representative from Cass county, was born in Randolf county,
Indiana, February 10, 1844, and came to Michigan with his parents in
1858 and settled on a farm in Cass county. He was educated in the
common schools, married and moved on the farm where he now resides.
He was elected to the legislature of 1903-4 and was reelected to the
legislature of 1905-6 by a vote of 3,054 to 2,136 for H. Sylvester
Chapman and 120 for Warren A. Garwood.
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HIGGINS THOMAS 26 M W IN MI CASS JEFFERSON TWP 1870
Name Age
Thomas Higgins 26
Caroline Higgins 24
Jay P Higgins 4/12
Household:1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation
Father's Birthplace
Mother's Birthplace
Thomas T. HIGGINS Self M Male W 36 IN Farmer DE NJ
Carline HIGGINS Wife M Female W 34 MI Keeping House MA OH
Jay P. HIGGINS Son S Male W 10 MI At School IN MI
Florence M. HIGGINS Dau S Female W 4 MI IN MI
Claud H. HIGGINS Son S Male W 2 MI IN MI
James T. HIGGINS Father W Male W 73 DE Retired Farmer NJ NJ
Source Information:
Census Place Jefferson, Cass, Michigan
Family History Library Film 1254575
NA Film Number T9-0575 Page Number 444A
HIGGINS THOMAS 56 M W IN MI CASS JEFFERSON TWP 1900
Name Age
Thomas Higgins 56
Caroline Higgins 54
Claude H Higgins 21
Leila B Higgins 11
Maud E Higgins 14
1910; Census Place: Jefferson, Cass,
Michigan; Roll T624_640; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 104; Image:
779 (No Image Available)
Name Age
Thomas T Higgins 62
Caroline Higgins 64
Orleta Whitmore 6
HIGGINS JAY P 40 M W MI MI CASS 1-WD DOWAGIAC 1910
Name Age
Jay P Higgins 40
Mabel Higgins 28
Craven Higgins 8
Max Higgins 5
HIGGINS JAY P 49 M W MI MI CASS JEFFERSON 1920
Name Age
Jay P Higgins 49
Mabel Higgins 37
Thomas C Higgins 17
James M Higgins 15
Caroline Higgins 75 Mother
1930; Census Place: Jefferson, Cass,
Michigan; Roll 979; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 6; Image: 848
(No Image Available)
Name Age
Jay P Higgins 60
Mabel P Higgins 48
James M Higgins 25
Lois I Higgins 18
Margaret A Higgins 2
Mary Lou Higgins 4/12
Caroline Higgins 84 Mother
Source: Michigan, Deaths and Burials
Index
Name: Thomas T Higgins Birth Date: abt 1844 Birth Place: Indiana
Death Date: 26 May 1916 Gender: Male Death Place: Jefferson,
Cass Co., Michigan
Death Age: 72 Occupation: Retired Farmer Race: White Marital Status:
Married
Father Name: James T Higgins Mother Name: Mary Higgins
Michigan, Deaths and Burials Index
Name: Caroline Rathbun Higgins
[Caroline Rathbun Rathbun]
Birth Date: 28 Feb 1846 Birth Place: Mich
Death Date: 8 Nov 1934 Death Place: Jefferson Cass., Mich
Burial Date: 11 Nov 1934 Cemetery Name: Union Church
Death Age: 88 Occupation: Homemaker
Race: White Marital Status: Widowed Gender: Female
Father Name: Lucius Rathbun Father Birth Place: Rhode Island
Mother Name: Sarah Glick Mother Birth Place: OH
Spouse Name: Thomas T. Higgins Informant Name: X
Source: Michigan, Deaths and Burials Index
Name: Jay P. Higgins Birth Date: 9 Feb 1870 Birth Place:
Michigan
Death Date: 9 Apr 1945 Death Place: Jefferson, Cass, Michigan
Burial Date: 11 Apr 1945 Burial Place: Jefferson
Cemetery Name: North Union Death Age: 75
Occupation: Farmer Race: White Gender: Male
Marital Status: Widowed Spouse Name: Mable Higgins
Residence: Jefferson, Cass. Mich
Father Name: Thomas T Higgins Father Birth Place: Indiana
Mother Name: Caroline Rathbun Mother Birth Place: Michigan
http://www.dunelady.com/Cass/cemeteries/bsidecem.htm
DAILEY CEMETERY aka UNION (BROOKSIDE)
Jefferson Township, Cass County Michigan
13 Row going South - - -
Higgins, Liela (Whitmore) no date - -
Higgins, Annie 1873 1874 -
Higgins, Caroline - mother 1846 - -
Higgins, Thomas T. - father 1844 1916 -
14th Row going North
Hass, Mary Higgins - wife of William 19 Oct 1838 21 Mar 1908 -
Higgins, James T. 90y 7m 11d 31 Mar 1898 -
Higgins, Mary A. - wife of James T 59y 2m 3d 6 Sep 1872 -
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22 Aug
2009
Valley City
Cemetery - Now the southern
section of Oak Hill Cemetery
Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan
VALLEY
CITY CEMETERY. (Info from Source:
History of the City of Grand Rapids Michigan By Albert Baxyer
at Google Books)
Situated about a quarter of a mile east of the fair grounds, in the
town of Paris, is the Valley City Cemetery, being the east part of
the north half of the northeast quarter of Section 6 in that
township, about forty acres of ground. This was purchased by
direction of the Common Council in February, 1859, and was dedicated
by the city authorities to cemetery purposes December 17, i860. The
grounds are handsomely laid out in a grove of natural oaks, with
convenient walks and drives, and are well kept. It has a number of
fine monuments, and a city vault of capacity to receive twenty-four
caskets, the latter built by a California gentleman
Higgins burial Information from
http://www.migenweb.net/kent/cemeteries/paris/valleycity/he-hi.html
Higgins (?), Daisy
Could not read.
Higgins, Desdamona S.
Higgins, Fred.
n.d.
Higgins, Hugh
n.d.
Higgins, James H.*
n.d.; Co. L. 9th Mich. Cav.
(added by MJHiggins) *Civil War pension
records show James Higgins died April 16,1925 at Soldier's Home in
Michigan.
Higgins,
Jane
b. 1822; d. 1902; on lot with Mary A., Jas. H., and Jessie; also
Jennie H. Bowen.
Higgins, Jennie
Higgins, Jessie
d. of J. B. and M. A.; d. Dec. 12, 1873; a. 4y. 4m. 24d.
Higgins, Mary A.
w. of Jas.; d. Feb. 19, 1893; a. 44y.
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Household:1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age
Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
James HIGGINS Self M Male W 35 CAN Mason IRE IRE
Mary HIGGINS Wife M Female W 29 MI Keep House NY NY
Jenny HIGGINS Dau S Female W 12 MI CAN MI
Fred HIGGINS Son S Male W 7 MI CAN MI
Robert HIGGINS Son S Male W 3 MI CAN MI
Source Information:
Census Place Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan
Family History Library Film 1254588
NA Film Number T9-0588
Page Number 225A
HIGGINS JAMES 76 M W CANA MI KENT GRAND RAPIDS TWP MICHIGAN SOL 1920
Soldier's Home in Kent County, Michigan
Name Age
James Higgins 76 Born Canada Parents born Ireland
Image
of Michigan Soldier's Home
His Civil War service is noted at
17-Higgins, James-Union-Cavalry-9th
Regiment-Michigan Cavalry
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21 Jul 2009
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/tsphoto/benzie/benzonia2.htm
Benzonia Township Cemetery - Benzonia Township, Benzie
County,Michigan
Higgins, Custer M. 1874*-
15 Apr 1956 * 2 Mar 1874
Link to Headstone Image
Higgins, Donald C. 1915 -
7 Mar 1971
Link to Headstone Image
Higgins, Hobson
1900 - 1901
Link to Headstone Image
Higgins, John -
- 18 Dec 1925
Link to Headstone Image
Higgins, Merrit C.
1908 - 21 May 1919
Link to Headstone Image
Higgins, Sarah F.
1851 - 14 Oct 1920
Link to Headstone Image
Higgins, Theta 10 Aug 1881 - 22 Aug 1948
Link to Headstone Image
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Source: Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State
of Ohio. Cincinnati: Wilstach, Baldwin, 1886.
Name: John Higgins ,
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on August 21
1862 at the age of 21.Mustered into Company D, 122nd
Ohio Infantry Regiment on Sep 30 1862.
Mustered Out on Jun 26 1865 at Washington, DC.
Household:1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation
Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
J. D. HIGGINS Self M Male W 38 OH Farmer PA PA
Sarah E. HIGGINS Wife M Female W 28 IN Keeps House OH MD
M. Custer HIGGINS Son S Male W 6 MI At School OH IN
Rodman J. HIGGINS Son S Male W 4 MI At Home OH IN
Mabelle E. HIGGINS Dau S Female W 1 MI At Home OH IN
Source Information:
Census Place Gilmore, Benzie, Michigan
Family History Library Film 1254572 NA Film Number T9-0572
Page Number 15B
Civil War pension records show John Higgins received an Invalid's
pension May 9,1883 for his service in Company D, 122nd Ohio
Infantry.
(Application # 448843 -
Certificate # 456846)
Records show he died December 17,1925 at Beulah, Michigan
Link to Headstone Image
of
Higgins, John ,122nd Regiment,
Ohio Infantry
Onsite link # 89 Higgins, John
,122nd Regiment, Ohio Infantry
1890 Veterans Census Schedule Michigan Benzie Gilmore
John Higgins, Private, Company D, 122nd Ohio
Infantry,08/22/1862-06/26/1865 (2 yr,10 mnths,5 dys)
HIGGINS CUSTER 26 M W MI MI BENZIE BENZONIA TWP 1900
Name Age
Custer Higgins 26
Theta Higgins 18
Violet M Higgins 1
1900; Census Place: Gilmore, Benzie, Michigan; Roll T623_702
Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 6 ( No Image Available)
Name Age
John Higgins 58
Sarah E Higgins 48
Rodman Higgins 24
HIGGINS RODMAN 33 M W MI MI BENZIE BENZONIA TWP 1910
Name Age
Rodman Higgins 33
Ethel I Higgins 20
Edna P Higgins 7/12
HIGGINS CUSTER M 36 M W MI MI BENZIE BENZONIA TWP 1910
Name Age
Custer M Higgins 36
Theta M Higgins 28
Violet M Higgins 11
Vivian R Higgins 8
Merritt Higgins 1 6/12
image includes
Name Age
John Higgins 68
Sarah C Higgins 58
Wells Jimmerman 10
Harry Higgins 4
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Custer Higgins County: Benzie
State: Michigan Birth Date: 2 Mar 1874 Race: White
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Rodman Cornal Higgins County: Benzie
State: Michigan Birth Date: 13 May 1876 Race: White
HIGGINS RODMAN 43 M W MI MI BENZIE BENZONIA 1920
Name Age
Rodman Higgins 43
Earl Higgins 8
HIGGINS CUSTER 45 M W MI MI BENZIE BENZONIA 1920
Name Age
Custer Higgins 45
Theta Higgins 38
Vivian Higgins 17
Glen Higgins 8
Donald Higgins 4 3/12
Beatrice Knopp 18
1930
Census Place: Benzonia, Benzie, Michigan; Roll 974; Page: 1B;
Enumeration District: 4; Image: 481
(No Image
Available)
Name Age
Custer Higgins 56
Theda Higgins 48
Glen Higgins 18
Donald Higgins 14
Leonara Higgins 10
Milly Gould 32
Margery Bolton 15
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08 Jul 2009
Source: The City of Detroit, Michigan,
1701-1922 By Clarence Monroe Burton
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY - 1922
Patrick C. Higgins was born in Ireland in 1817 and came to
Detroit before 1840. He was a teacher for some years in the Detroit
schools and subsequently was admitted to the bar. He was the first
police justice, serving from 1850 to 1853. He died in Detroit
February 24, 1857, leaving a widow, Clara Edsell and two
children, Charles R. Higgins and Alice Higgins.
HIGGINS PATRICK 25 M W MI WAYNE DETROIT 1850
Name Age
Patk C Higgins 25
Clara Higgins 25
Charles Higgins 4
Clara Higgins 1
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17 Jun 2009
Source:
Collections By
Michigan State Historical Society, Pioneer Society of the State of
Michigan - Published by The Society, 1884
ALLEGAN COUNTY - MEMORIAL REPORT
Jabin S. Higgins was born in Batavia, N. Y., March 9th.,
1797. He died in Otsego, Allegan county, Michigan, Oct. 5th, 1882,
aged eighty-four years, six months and twenty-six days. Mr. Higgins
came to Kalamazoo county in the fall of 1833 and rented the farm,
now the Kalamazoo county farm. He moved to Otsego, Allegan county,
in the spring or summer of 1836, and opened a hotel in that then
small village. At said hotel this writer took his first meal in
Allegan county, in October of said year 1836. Mr. Higgins built the
first saw-mill in said town, on or near what is known as Pine Creek.
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HIGGINS JABIN 51 W M MICHIGAN ALLEGAN OSTEGO 1850
Name Age
Jabin S Higgins 51
Betsey Higgins 47
Willard Higgins 26
Roselinda C Higgins 24
Eliza Higgins 22
Hugh Higgins 19
Marion G Higgins 16
Zenas Higgins 12
Harriet Higgins 9
Orlan Higgins 6
HIGGINS JABIN S 61 M W NY MI ALLEGAN OTSEGO 1860
Name Age
Jabin S Higgins 61
Betsie Higgins 58
Lisaous A Higgins 21
Orlin Higgins 16
HIGGINS JABIN S 71 M W NY MI ALLEGAN OTSEGO 1870
Name Age
Jabir S Higgins 71
Betsey Higgins 68
Orlin S Higgins 26
Mary Higgins 26
Household: 1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation
Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Willard HIGGINS Self M Male W 55 NY Sawmill NY VT
Eliza HIGGINS Wife M Female W 55 NY Housekeeping VT NY
Francelia DRAKE SDau M Female W 39 MI Housekeeping NY NY
Emma BROOKS Other S Female W 22 MI Domestic VT ---
Jabin BROOKS* Other W Male W 81 NY None VT CT
John KEEFER Other S Male W 26 PA Sawmill PA PA
Frank ULUM Other S Male W 22 MI Sawmill --- ---
George THOMPSON Other S Male W 30 MI Sawmill --- ---
Riley ULUM Other S Male W 19 MI Sawmill --- ---
Willard DRAKE Nephew S Male W 21 MI Sawmill NY MI
Birton DRAKE Nephew S Male W 14 MI On Farm NY MI
(* Incorrectly enumerated as Jabin Brooks, instead of Jabin Higgins)
Source Information:
Census Place Otsego, Allegan, Michigan
Family History Library Film 1254569
NA Film Number T9-0569
Page Number 412B
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11 May 2009
Source: Directory By Bay City (Mich.)-
Published 1884
PUBLISHED BY R. L. POLK & CO.
Higgins Charles, laborer, bds 1894 11th.
Higgins Fulton, laborer, bds 601 Broadway.
Higgins Kate, domestic 302 N Adams.
Higgins Morris, laborer, bds Park City hotel.
Higgins Robert F, millwright, res 601 Broadway
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29 Apr 2009
Source: Portrait and Biographical
Album of Midland
County, Mich By Chapman Brothers - 1884
George Higgins, proprietor of the
Sanford House at
Sanford, was born Aug. 24, 1839, in Canada, and is the son of
John and Josette (Scheler) Higgins. His father died in
Springfield,
Can.
Mr. Higgins began his contest with the world when he was 11 years
old. He has a natural aptitude for the use of tools and early in
life learned the business of boiler-making and blacksmithing. He
went from the Dominion to the State of New York and came thence to
Saginaw, Mich., about the first of March, 1865. He first found
employment in a brick-yard, where he continued five months. His next
remove was to Tittabawassee, where he operated between three and
four years. He went thence to the city of Saginaw and engaged in
keeping a boarding saloon. Eight months later he bought a hotel at
Edenville,
Midland County. He continued its management between two and
three years, when the property was destroyed by fire. The entire
loss was between four and five thousand dollars. He held an
insurance policy of $2,500, on which he realized $2,000. He then
came to Sanford and established himself in the business of
hotel-keeping in a frame house on the
bank of the river.
It was situated on the flat and was subject to the interesting
vicissitudes common to high water in this section of
Michigan. The
lower floor was frequently flooded and business suffered
accordingly. In 1875 he bought his present location of Charles
Sanford, and moved his effects hither in a scow. On his return the
following day, he found the water waist deep in the lower story of
the house he had left. May 15, 1884, he was again visited by the
destroying element, fire, and his hotel was burned to the ground,
together with a portion of the furniture. It was insured for $2,500,
and the furniture was insured for $500. At the present writing he is
rebuilding.
Mr. Higgins owns a farm of 187 acres of land on section 24, of
Jerome Township, with 27 acres improved. He also owns six town lots
in Sanford. He has officiated six terms as Highway Commissioner and
as Deputy Sheriff eight years.
He was married Aug. 16, 1861, to Elizabeth A.' daughter of
William Henry and Helen (Hilliard) O'Connell. Her father
was born Aug. 15, 1781, in Limerick.
Ireland, and
died Feb. 5, 1873, in Hamilton, Can. The mother was born June 8,
1796, in the city of Dublin, and died Oct. 20, 1873, in the same
place where the demise of her husband occurred. Mrs. Higgins was
born in Toronto,
Can., Oct. 28, 1838. Following is the record of the children born to
Mr. and Mrs. Higgins: Henry A. was born Nov. 2, 1863, in
Springfield, Can., and was married March 14, 1883, at Eden ville, to
Hattie J. Stratton. The
marriage ceremony
was performed by Daniel Grover, J. P. George T., the child of
this marriage, was born April 7, 1884. Helen J. Higgins was
born Aug. 10, 1864, at
Georgetown, Can., and was married Aug. 8, 1883, to W. A.
Ryan at Sanford, by J. A. Sprague, Presiding Elder at
Big Rapids.
Anna Belle Higgins. was born Aug. 13, 1871, at Edenville, Mich.
Albert Higgins was born Aug. 3, 1873, at Sanford.
HIGGINS GEORGE
31 M W CANA MI MIDLAND JEROME TWP 1870
Image
1 &
2
Name Age
George Higgins 31
Elizabeth Higgins 31
Henry A Higgins 7
Helen G Higgins 6
Household:1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation
Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
George HIGGANS Self M Male W 40 CAN Hotel Keeper CAN CAN
Elizabeth HIGGANS Wife M Female W 42 CAN Keep House IRE IRE
Henry A. HIGGANS Son S Male W 17 CAN CAN CAN
Elan J. HIGGANS Dau S Female W 15 CAN CAN CAN
Anna HIGGANS Dau S Female W 8 MI CAN CAN
Albert HIGGANS Son S Male W 5 MI CAN CAN
Source Information:
Census Place Jerome, Midland, Michigan
Family History Library Film 1254595
NA Film Number T9-0595
Page Number 198A
also from same
source
William Higgins, farmer, section 26,
Midland Township, is a son of Harvey and Laura (Whitman)
Higgins, the former a native of Connecticut and the latter of
Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. They moved to Pennsylvania, thence to
Trumbull Co., Ohio, and two years later, namely, in the fall of
1858, they came to Midland County. He died in the fall of 1859, and
she Aug. 7, 1875. They had eight children, named Albert,
Alvin, Mary, Henry, Henrietta, William,
Lydia J. and Leonard, all of whom lived to the age of
maturity.
The subject of this sketch was born in Crawford Co., Pa., Aug. 1,
1847. In August, 1863, when he was but 16 years of age, he enlisted
in the war for the suppression of the great insurrection, in the
16th Mich. Inf., and served three
years. He participated in the second battle of Bull Run, and in the
battles of Gettysburg, Petersburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness,
etc , etc. At the battle of Gettysburg he received a slight wound in
the hand.
Since the war he has resided in this county. He now owns 170 acres
of land, 140 of which he has in good cultivation. In regard to
political views he is counted among the Republicans.
Household:1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation
Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
William HIGGINS Self S Male W 34 PA CT NY
Alvin HIGGINS Brother S Male W 42 PA Farmer CT NY
Henry HIGGINS Brother S Male W 37 PA Lumberman CT NY
Johnson MILNER Son M Male W 34 ENG Farm Labor ENG ENG
Anna MILNER Wife M Female W 22 ENG Keeps House ENG ENG
Source Information:
Census Place Midland, Midland, Michigan
Family History Library Film 1254595
NA Film Number T9-0595
Page Number 214C
also
Albert Higgins, farmer, section 36, Midland Township, is a
son of Harvey and Laura (Whitman) Higgins, who were
natives of Connecticut. Albert was born in New York Oct. 8, 1834,
and at 18 years of age started out in life for himself. For nearly
six years he worked out by the month on a farm. In the fall of 1858
he came to Midland County and purchased 80 acres of land in Midland
Township, on section 26, which he afterward disposed of. He now owns
40 acres on section 36, where he resides and has about 25 acres
finely improved.
Mr. Higgins was married in this county Aug. 28, 1862, to Anna,
daughter of William and Nancy (Taylor) Fair, who were
natives of Ireland. Mrs. H. was born in Canada West, March 15, 1842.
Their family record comprises the following children : William A.,
Rose J. (deceased), Florence M., George A.,
Arthur A. and Robert J. (deceased).
Mr. and Mrs. H. are members of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, and in
political matters he is counted a Republican.
Household:1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation
Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Albert HIGGINS Self M Male W 46 NY Farmer NY NY
Anna HIGGINS Wife M Female W 38 CAN Keep House IRE IRE
William HIGGINS Son S Male W 17 MI At Home NY CAN
Florence HIGGINS Dau S Female W 15 MI At School NY CAN
George HIGGINS Son S Male W 13 MI At Home NY CAN
Arthur HIGGINS Son S Male W 10 MI At School NY CAN
Source Information:
Census Place Midland, Midland, Michigan
Family History Library Film 1254595
NA Film Number T9-0595
Page Number 213A
HIGGINS ALBERT 65 M W NY MI MIDLAND MIDLAND TWP 1900
Name Age
Albert Higgins 65
Anna Higgins 57
HIGGENS WILLIAM 46 M W MI MI MIDLAND MIDLAND TWP 1910
Name Age
William Higgins 46
Albert Higgins 75
Anna Higgins 68
Arthur Higgins 38
Mildred Higgins 13
.............................................
08 Feb 2009
Looking for ancestors of Oscar Higgins of
Michigan
Hello,
I saw this on your website.
Higgins, Oscar, (Martha E.), Assistant Foreman Postum Cereal
Company. Resides 29
James
Oscar Higgins,
Age: 36 Year: 1920 USA Census
Birthplace: Michigan Roll: T625_759
Race: White Page: 13A State:
Michigan ED: 49
County: Calhoun Township:
Battle Creek
He was my Great Uncle. I am looking for his father Andrew P
Higgins and I have not had any luck yet. Do you know of anymore
info on the Higgins family I am speaking of? If so that would be a
great help to me.
Theresa Wirth
luckyirishgirl68 AT
hotmail.com
-Webmaster's Findings-
Though i didn't find anything on Andrew P. Higgins, i have
added some added info on
Oscar and his
family
See :
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/tsphoto/gratiot/ridgelawn.htm
Cemetery: Ridgelawn Cemetery - The cemetery is located on Pine and
Summit Streets in Breckenridge, Gratiot County, Michigan
-Tombstone Image Link-
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/gratiot/photos/tombstones/ridgelawn/higgins43514gph.jpg
Name: Hollis - Martha - Oscar HIGGINS
HIGGINS
Hollis Y. Martha E. Oscar
1905-1907 1878-1965 1883-1980
Social Security Death
Index
Name: Oscar Higgins Born: 2 Sep 1883 Died: Jul 1980
Last Residence:
48801 Alma, Gratiot, Michigan,
United States of
America
Last Benefit: 48801 Alma, Gratiot, Michigan, United States of
America
State (Year) SSN issued: Michigan (Before 1951)
1930 United States Federal Census (No Image Available)
Name: Oscar Higgins
Home in
1930: Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan Age: 45
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1885 Birthplace: Michigan
Relation to Head of House: Boarder Race: White
HIGGINS OSCAR 36
M W MI MI CALHOUN BATTLE CRK,BEDFORD TWP 1920
Name Age
Oscar Higgins 36 Foreman Food Company
Martha Higgins 41
Thomas Higgins 4
World War I
Draft Registration Cards
Name: Oscar Higgins 39 James Street City:
Battle Creek
County:
Calhoun State: Michigan
Birth Date: 2 Sep 1883 Race: White
Description:Tall,Medium Build,Blue Eyes,Brown Hair
HIGGINS OSCAR 26 M W MI MI CALHOUN 5-WD BATTLE CRK 1910
Name Age
Oscar Higgins 26 Laborer at Bakery
E Martha Higgins 31
WIRTH WINDLEING 60 M W GERM MI GRATIOT WHEELER TWP 1900
Image 1
&
2
Name Age
Mindbing Wirth 39
Mattie P Wirth 36
Walter Wirth 7
Gurdin Wirth 2
Ina D Higgins 18
Oscar Higgins 16
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23 Dec 2008
http://www.willett.org/ovid/LaingsburgCem2002.htm
Laingsburg, Shiawassee County, Michigan
-Laingsburg Cemetery Burial Records-
Name-Year of Death- Day/Mo Death - Age at Death - Section - Lot
No..- Page No.
Higgins, Charlotte 1924 8-Jan 80 yrs C-29 7 114
Higgins, Maybelle A. 1955 3-Apr 65 yrs B 107-1 69
Higgins, Thomas J. 1969 27-Mar 86 yrs B 107-2 69
Higgins, Wm. 1905 20-Mar 63 yrs C-29 7 114
- Webmaster's Findings -
1930; Census Place: Laingsburg, Shiawassee, Michigan; Roll: 1026;
Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 26; Image: 1100 (No Image Available)
Name Age
Thomas J. Higgins 47
Maybelle A Higgins 40
Charlotte M Higgins 13
June A Higgins 2 6/12
Vivian M Higgins
Maude M Putnam 60 Practical Nurse
HIGGINS THOMAS 37 M W MI MI CLINTON VICTOR 1920
Name Age
Thomas J Higgins 37
Mabel Higgins 27
Charlotte M Higgins 2 9/12
with the elder Charlotte Higgins living next door
HIGGINS CHARLOTTE 66 F W NY MI CLINTON VICTOR TWP 1910
Name Age
Charlotte Higgins 66
Thomas J Higgins 27
George W Higgins 22
HIGGINS WILLIAM 56 M W MI CLINTON VICTOR TWP 1900
Name Age
William Higgins 56
Charlotte Higgins 57
Eugenia Higgins 20
Thomas Higgins 17
George Higgins 13
Household:1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender
Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's
Birthplace
William HIGGINS Self M Male W 36 ONTARIO Carpenter ENG ONTARIO
Charlotte HIGGINS Wife M Female W 36 NY Keeping House NY NY
Clara E. HIGGINS Dau S Female W 6M MI At Home ONTARIO NY
Clarissa JAMISON MotherL W Female W 70 NY VT PA
Source Information:
Census Place Victor, Clinton, Michigan
Family History Library Film 1254577
NA Film Number T9-0577
Page Number 508C
HIGGINS WILLIAM 24 M W CANA MI SHIAWASSEE SCIOTA 1870
Also living in this residence is William Jamison
....................
02 Aug 2008
PUBLISHED: Sunday, July 27, 2008 -
http://www.macombdaily.com/stories/072708/obi_obits09.shtml
- Lawrence Watson Higgins - May 28, 1915 to July 25, 2008 -
Lawrence Watson Higgins, 93, of Clinton Township,
died Friday, July 25, 2008, in Mount Clemens Regional Medical
Center. He was born May 28, 1915, in Sandusky, Michigan.
Mr. Higgins was the owner of Higgins Rack Coating and Manufacturing
Company from 1945 to 1971. He was a member of the Shriners, the
Masons, and the Fez on Wheels RV Travel Club.
His family will remember him as an avid hunter over the years in
Michigan. In the past he had hunted in Canada and Montana. He also
enjoyed tinkering and playing cards, especially euchre.
Mr. Higgins is survived by his children, Dennis Higgins and
Cindy
(Jeff) Hoff; grandchildren, Bryan (Lauri) Hoff, Corey (Ashley) Hoff
and Justin Hoff; wife of 60 years, Frances Higgins; and siblings,
Golda Badgero, Thelma (Chet) Skonieczny, Bernice Sweet,
Donna Miles
and Eldon (Janet) Higgins.
A funeral service will be held at 4 p.m. Monday at S.K. Schultz
Funeral Home, 43300 Garfield (north of 19 Mile Road), Clinton
Township, with the Rev. Karen Boland officiating. Visitation is 2-4
p.m. Monday, with a 4:30 p.m. Masonic Lodge service conducted by
Bill Betz.
Another service will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Marsh Funeral
Chapel, 396 South Sandusky Road (M-19), Sandusky, Mich. Visitation
will be 1-3 p.m. Tuesday. A graveside service will be held Tuesday
at Zion Cemetery in Watertown Township near Sandusky.
Memories may be shared with the family at
www.SchultzFuneralHome.com.
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added 04 Apr 2009
A guest book inquiry from John Michael
Higgins about the
Robert Russell Higgins information posted below:
My Higgins Families resided mostly in
Greenville, (Montcalm Co,) Michigan & Otisco Township (Ionia Co.)
New York. My fathers name was Robert Russell Higgins, His Father was
Vernor George Higgins, His Father was Fremont F Higgins (born in New
York ) His Father ? William (born in New York approximately 1801)
His wife Ann born in England (1827) .
John Michael Higgins grizzly4x AT yahoo.com
- Webmaster's Findings - 28 Jan 2008
-
http://www.timeformemory.com/hurst/obituary.cfm?id=28621
Robert Russell Higgins 1917 - 2007
(19 Nov 1917 - 11 Nov 2007)
Robert Russell Higgins age 89 of Montcalm Township
Greenville (Michigan) passed away Sunday morning at
home. He was born in Montcalm Township on November
19,1917 the son of Vernor G. and Clara E. Simmons
Higgins. Bob was a farmer all his life living on the
same farm since 1939. He was a faithful member of
Faith Baptist Church and the Farm Bureau.
His wife Cleo, whom he married in 1939, preceded him
in death in 1989, and also his sons Roger in 2001 and
Gary in 2004, his brothers Calvin in 1979 and Marvin
in 2004 and also his great grandson Jacob Michael
Higgins in 1999.
He married Edith Forsythe in 1991 and she survives
along with his son John and Cindy Higgins of Ada, his
daughters-in-law Beverly of Greenville and Sue of
Indiana, grandchildren; Chris Higgins and Linda Sawyer
of Greenville, Michael Higgins of Smyrna, Rhonda
“Katie” and Curt Sisson of Sheridan, Lisa and Mark
Moore of Lowell, Julie and Ray Fox of Greenville,
Jack
Higgins of Alma and Jim
(now serving in Iraq) and
Tonya Higgins of Alma, Jason Higgins and Ashley
McPherson of Greenville, Chris and Kim Higgins, Dustin
Averill, and Debbie Stinson all of Texas, Dusti and
George DeVille of Wyoming, Sarah Deiters of Grand
Rapids, MaryBeth Deiters of Ada and several great
grandchildren, step-daughters Fern Jessop of
Greenville and Donna and Marvin Shepherd of Casper Wyoming, sister-in-law
Barbara Corey of Stanton and
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday November 15,
2007 at 1 PM from Faith Baptist Church with Rev.
Robert Winter officiating. Burial will be in East
Montcalm Cemetery.
Visitation will be Tuesday from 6-8 PM and Wednesday
from 6-8 PM at Hurst Funeral Home. Memorial
contributions may be given to Faith Baptist Church
Social Security Death Index
Name: Robert R. Higgins
Born: 19 Nov 1917 Died: 11 Nov 2007
State (Year) SSN issued: Michigan (1951 )
Last Residence: 48838 Greenville, Montcalm, Michigan
1930; Census Place: Montcalm, Montcalm, Michigan; Roll: 1013; Page: 9A;
Enumeration District: 24; Image:
1032 (No Image Available)
Name Age
Vernor G Higgins 46
Clara Higgins 40
Robert Higgins 12
Marvin Higgins 8
Calvin Higgins 5
1930; Census Place: Montcalm, Montcalm, Michigan;Roll: 1013; Page: 3B;
Enumeration District: 24; Image:
1021 (No Image Available)
Name Age
Fremont Higgins 73
Helen Higgins 31
Fremont Higgins 13
HIGGINS VERNOR 36 M W MI MI MONTCALM MONTCALM 1920
Name Age
Vernor Higgins 36
Clara Higgins 36
Robert Higgins 2 1/12
Earnest Simmons 23 Brother in Law
Image includes living next door
Name Age
Fremont F Higgins 63
Anna Higgins 44
Helen Higgins 21
Fremont Higgins 3 7/12
HIGGINS FREMONT 53 M W NY MI MONTCALM MONTCALM TWP
1910
Name Age
Fremont Higgins 53
Anna E Higgins 35
Vern G Higgins 27
Helen Higgins 11
Dayton Higgins 20
HIGGIN FREMONT F 44 M W NY MI MONTCALM MONTCALM TWP
1900
Name Age
Fremont F Higgin 43
Annie Higgin 25
Vernor Higgin 16
Florance Higgin 14
William Higgin 12
Daton Higgin 10
Hellen Higgin 9
Household:1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age
Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's
Birthplace
Fremont HIGGIN Self M Male W 23 NY Farmer NY ENG
E. May HIGGIN Wife M Female W 17 NY Keeping House
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Source Information:
Census Place Otisco, Ionia, Michigan
Family History Library Film 1254583
NA Film Number T9-0583
Page Number 60A
HIGGINS WILLIAM 69 M W NY MI IONIA OTISCO TWP 1870
Social Security Death Index
Name: Fremont W. Higgins
Born: 1 Jun 1916 Died: 8 Jun 1995
State (Year) SSN issued: Michigan (Before 1951 )
Last Residence: 48885 Sidney, Montcalm, Michigan, United States of America
Other Higgins' from this source for this county/state
Clarence Higgins 26 Jan 1923 Dec 1986 Greenville,
Montcalm, Michigan
Cleo G. Higgins 13 Apr 1918 25 Jun 1989 Greenville,
Montcalm, Michigan
Dayton Higgins 12 Aug 1889 May 1967 Greenville,
Montcalm, Michigan
Etta L. Higgins 16 Nov 1921 13 Dec 1999 Greenville,
Montcalm, Michigan
Eunice Higgins 25 Jan 1922 Jun 1980 Greenville,
Montcalm, Michigan
Frank E. Higgins 2 Apr 1924 9 May 2006 Greenville,
Montcalm, Michigan
Fremont W. Higgins 1 Jun 1916 8 Jun 1995 Sidney,
Montcalm, Michigan
Hazel C. Higgins 29 Apr 1905 1 Apr 2001 Greenville,
Montcalm, Michigan
Helen Higgins 25 Apr 1898 Sep 1967 Sidney, Montcalm,
Michigan
Marion Higgins 17 Jul 1916 Apr 1981 Sidney, Montcalm,
Michigan
Robert R. Higgins 19 Nov 1917 11 Nov 2007 Greenville,
Montcalm, Michigan
Roger L. Higgins 1 May 1942 19 Jul 2001 Greenville,
Montcalm, Michigan
Vernor Higgins 4 Jul 1883 Jul 1969 Greenville,
Montcalm, Michigan
World War I Draft Registrations
Name Birth Date Race Birthplace Registration Place
(City, County, State)
Dayton Filmore Higgins 31 Aug 1890 Caucasian (White)
Michigan; United States of America Not Stated,
Montcalm, MI Medium Height Medium Build
Brown eyes brown hair
Vernor George Higgins 4 Jul 1883 White Not Stated,
Date of
Registration:September 12, 1918
Montcalm, MI Medium Height Medium Build
Age-35, Farmer, Self Employed, Medium Height, Medium Build, Blue
Eyes,Dark Brown Hair
Brown eyes brown hair
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mimontca/cemeteries/eastmontcalm.htm
East Montcalm Cemetery
Montcalm Township, Montcalm County, Michigan
(The East Montcalm Cemetery is located on Greenville
Rd./M-91 in Greenville, Montcalm Township)
HIGGINS:
Anna C. 1875-1926
Calvin L. 1924-1977
Clara E. 1889-1979 w/o Vernor
Clayton 16 Sep 1894-9 Aug 1898
Dayton F. 1889-1967
Florence B. 1896-1985 w/o Dayton F.
Fremont F. 1856-1941
Fremont 1916- burial rec d. 8 Jun 1995
Helen H. 1898-1967
Kenneth E. 1914-1985
L. Ruth 1916-1984 w/o Kenneth E.
Marion L. 1916-1981 w/o Fremont
May E. 1 May 1862-18 Dec 1891
Roderic James d. 18 Sept 1940
Vernor G. 1883-1969
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22 Dec 2007
George J. Higgins - Times Herald - (Nov/15/2004)
Birth Date: 1 Oct 1922 Death Date: 12 Nov 2004
Times Herald of Port Huron, MI
PECK -- George J. Higgins, 82, of Peck, passed away
Friday, Nov. 12, 2004 in Marlette Hospital.
He was born Oct. 1, 1922 in Watertown Twp., the son of
the late Ervin and Catherine (Laughran) Higgins.
He married Phyllis Joan Kintz on Dec. 15, 1951 in
Sandusky. Mr. Higgins was a lifelong area farmer.
He is survived by his wife, Phyllis Higgins; one son,
Dennis (Tarry) Higgins of Peck; one daughter, Joyce
(Craig) Hurley of Marlette; five grandchildren, Troy
Peters of Marlette, Tammy (Dan) Benedict of Marlette,
Monica (Jim) Sopha of Sandusky, Tiffany Higgins of
Sandusky and Shane Higgins of Peck; two
step-grandchildren, Darrin and Shellie; five
great-grandchildren; one sister, Fern (Carlyle) Eggert
of Sandusky; one sister-in-law, Lela Higgins of
Sandusky; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his brother, Stafford
Higgins; and his sister, Leona Smith.
Visitation will be held from 2 to 9 p.m. today at the
Hacker Funeral Parlors in Sandusky.
Funeral services will be held at noon Monday at Hacker
Funeral Parlors, Sandusky. Pastor Jerry Griggs of Peck
will officiate. Burial will be in Zion Cemetery,
Watertown, MI.
Memorials may be made to the donor's choice.
Originally published Sunday, November 14, 2004
1930; Census Place: Watertown, Sanilac, Michigan;
Roll: 1028; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 38; Image:
563
(No image Available)
Name Age
Ervin Higgins 42 Born Canada Parents born Canada
His year of immigration is noted as 1912. Listed as
alien.
Katherine D Higgins 35 Born Michigan Parents Born
Canada
Leona H Higgins 15
Stafford T Higgins 13
Nellie F Higgins 17
George J Higgins 7
Living next door is a widowed 79 Year old Hannah
Higgins, also born Canada. Her year of immigration is
noted as 1879.Listed as Alien
HIGGINS ERVIN J 32 M W CANA MI SANILAC ELMER 1920
Name Age
Ervin J Higgins 32
Kathrine V Higgins 26
Leona H Higgins 4
Stafford T Higgins 2
Nettie F Higgins 8/12
Social Security Death Index
Name: Ervin Higgins
Last Residence: 48466
Peck, Sanilac, Michigan, United States of America
Born: 8 Feb 1888 Died: Aug 1984
State (Year) SSN issued: Michigan (1955-1956 )
Name: Stafford T. Higgins
Last Residence: 48466 Peck, Sanilac, Michigan, United
States of America
Born: 22 Mar 1917 Died: 2 May 1989
State (Year) SSN issued: Michigan (Before 1951 )
World War I Draft Registration
Name Birth Date Race Birthplace Registration Place
(City, County, State)
Ervin Joseph Higgins 7 Feb 1888 Caucasian (White)
Ontario Not Stated, Sanilac, MI
Medium Height, Stout Build
Has declared intentions to become citizen
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04 Dec 2007
http://www.crandellfh.com/obituaries/higgins%20clayton.htm
Higgins, Clayton Lee
Clayton Lee Higgins, age 85 of Grant (Mich.), passed
away Wednesday evening at his home. Clayton was born
on June 12, 1919 in Grant to Lee Isaac and Eva
(Peterson) Higgins and married Edna M. Williams on
January 18, 1941 in North Mills, NC. He has been a
lifelong resident of the Grant area and had been a
millwright at Brunswick Corporation in Muskegon until
his retirement in August 1984. He was a veteran of
World War II where he served as an Aviation Chief
Machinist Mate in the United States Navy. He was a
life member of Newaygo V.F.W Sportsman’s Post #4249;
loved cutting wood and spending time in the woods;
enjoyed stonework; traveling the country with his
family and was an avid history and aviation buff.
He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Edna of Grant;
his children, Shirley J. (Scott) Shears of Grant;
Debbie (James) Arend of Salem, New York; Kathleen C.
(Dennis) Gundling of Cota De Caza, California; Anna
(Ron) Jensen of Newaygo; 8 grandchildren; 7 great
grandchildren; his sisters, Erma Bisard of Ravenna;
June Campbell of Muskegon; Betty Beebe of Kent City;
his brothers, Lee (Lennie) Higgins Jr. of Tennessee;
Walter “Bill” (Paula) Higgins of Grant; Archie (Judy)
Higgins of Newaygo; Jim (Betty) Higgins of Grant; many
nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by an
infant daughter, Linda Higgins; sister, Marge
Richardson; brother, Fern “Bud” Higgins.
VISITATION : Monday 12-2pm at Crandell Funeral Home –
Fremont Chapel. MILITARY RITES : Monday at 2pm at the
Crandell Funeral Home – Fremont Chapel. FUNERAL
GRAVESIDE SERVICES at the Ashland Twp. Cemetery in
Grant at approximately 2:30pm MEMORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS
: Hospice of Michigan, Newaygo County; Continu-Care;Bellwether Foundation; or Ashland Center Church of
Christ.
Funeral services were held on Monday, November 22,
2004 from the Ashland Township Cemetery in Grant with
Rev. Joe Hatter of the Ashland Center Church of Christ
presiding with military rites given by the Newaygo
V.F.W. Sportsman’s Post #4249. Friends may consider
the Hospice of Michigan, Newaygo County; Continu-Care;
Bellwether Foundation; or Ashland Center Church of
Christ. Arrangements by Crandell Funeral Home –
Fremont Chapel.
www.crandellfh.com
-Census findings subject to user confirmation-
1930; Census Place: Sebewa, Ionia, Michigan; Roll:
992; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 35; Image: 1102
(no image available)
Name Age
Lee I Higgins 38 Farmer
Eva J Higgins 35
Margie Higgins 12
Clayton Higgins 10
Erma Higgins 8
Fre?? Higgins 6
June Higgins 2 10/12
Junior Higgins 7/12 yr
HIGGINS LEE H 28
M W IN MI NEWAYGO ASHLAND 1920
Name Age
Lee H. Higgins 28 (middle initial indexed as an H
Eva Higgins 24
Marjorie M Higgins 1 11/12
Clayton Lee Higgins 7/12
HIGGINS SOL P 42
M W IN MI NEWAYGO ASHLAND TWP 1910
Name Age
Sol Higgins 42 (Sherman?)
Esta Higgins 40 (Etta)
Lee Higgins 18
Clarence Higgins 17
Daisy Higgins 19
Emma Higgins 11
Jolina Higgins 9
Ruben Higgins 4
Mary Higgins 2
HIGGINS SHERMAN 32
M W IN IN ADAMS HARTFORD TWP 1900
Name Age
Sherman Higgins 32
Etta Higgins 29
Lee Higgins 8
Clarence Higgins 7
Daisy Higgins 3
Emma Higgins 1
A N Bodle 53
Household:1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age
Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's
Birthplace
William HIGGINS Self M Male W 43 OH Farmer OH OH
Rebecca HIGGINS Wife M Female W 40 OH Wife OH OH
Alfred HIGGINS Son S Male W 19 IN At Home OH OH
Phebe HIGGINS Dau S Female W 16 IN At Home OH
OH
Sherman HIGGINS Son S Male W 12 IN At Home OH OH
Source Information:
Census Place Hartford, Adams, Indiana
Family History Library Film 1254264
NA Film Number T9-0264
Page Number 107C
HIGGINS WILLIAM 35 M W OH IN ADAMS JEFFERSON TWP 1870
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Oct 22, 2007
Source:
A Twentieth Century History of Allegan
County,
Michigan By Henry Franklin Thommas (Published 1907 Lewis
Publishing Co)
WILLARD HIGGINS, owning a farm of one hundred and twenty
acres on sections one and thirty-two in Otsego township, where he
conducts a mill, is one of the oldest settlers of Allegan county,
dating his residence here since the fall of 1835, covering a period
of more than seventy years. He is the next oldest settler in the
county, Chauncey Scott, son of Giles Scott, alone being older. He
was born on a farm in Amity township, Allegany county, New York,
October 9, 1823, and represents one of the old families of the east,
who originated from England but comes of Irish descent.
His father, Jabin Strong Higgins, was born in
the eastern part of New York, March 9, 1799, and was
there reared and married Miss Betsey Aldrich, who was
born near Cooperstown, New York, in 1801. The father
conducted a sawmill in his native state, and in 1834
removed with his family to Michigan, making the
overland journey, which required twenty one days, the
family home being established in Kalamazoo county, the
date of their arrival being October 2nd. The father
followed farming in Comstock township, where he made
his home until March, 1836, when he moved the family
to Allegan county. He and a brother had already in
1835 built the sawmill on Pine Creek above mentioned.
When the family arrived here the town of Otsego
contained but three houses. He was connected with
building operations, erecting a house, which he
conducted as a hotel for some time, this being the
first regular hostelry in the village, Dr. Foster's
place not being a public place in the strict sense. He
and his brother Gilbert likewise built what are now
known as the Leighton Mills, a mile east of where Mr.
Higgins now resides, and for many years he was
connected with milling and farming interests in this
county. In the family of this pioneer couple were
eleven children, ten of whom reached mature years,
while one died when four years of age. Beside Willard
there are three sons—Marvin G., Zenas A. and Orlin,
the first and last named making their home in Otsego
township, while one daughter, Mrs. Harriet Steel,
resides in Plainwell. One son of the family, Hugh,
served in the Civil war, enlisting in Minnesota, and
his death occurred in Plainwell.
(see
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mjhiggins/n-cw14.htm
3
Higgins, Hugh 3rd Regiment, Minnesota Infantry
which includes census information on Hugh and his
family)
The mother of this family passed away in Allegan
county about 1877, at the age of seventy-six years,
while the father spent the last five years of his life
with his son, Willard, and died in November, 1881.
Thus passed away one of the worthy pioneer couples of
this portion of the state, who had aided in much of
the development and progress of their home locality.
Willard Higgins was a little lad of eleven years when
he accompanied his parents on their removal from New
York to this state, and he still has vivid
recollections of many incidents connected with the
long and tedious journey. He was reared to farm life,
assisting his father in the duties of the fields, and
at the early age of twelve years he was employed at
farm labor by others for ten dollars per month. He
likewise learned the milling business from his father
and has been connected with this industry to a greater
or less extent throughout his entire life. He spent
the period of his boyhood and youth on the home farm
and there remained until he reached the age of
twenty-five years, being employed the greater portion
of the time by his father. He then began work on his
own account by renting the Forbes sawmill, in Gun
Plains, which was operated by water power, conducting
the enterprise for two years. He then disposed of his
interests with a view of going to California, for it
was during the period of the gold excitement on the
Pacific coast. He, however, abandoned that idea and,
having accumulated about one thousand dollars,
purchased in partnership a stock of goods in the
spring of 1850 and engaged in commercial pursuits in
Otsego for two years, when his brother-in-law
purchased the other party's interest and became a
member of the firm, which so continued for one year,
when, in March, 1853, the brother-in-law died, after
which Mr. Higgins continued the business alone until
1855. He then disposed of his stock of merchandise and
engaged in lumbering and farming for a time. He also
conducted the first circular sawmill in Allegan
county, conducting this enterprise until the spring of
1865, when he disposed of that business and once more
entered merchandising in Otsego, conducting a general
store there until 1871, in which year he failed, for
this was the period following the Civil war, when
prices greatly depreciated and caused a financial
panic all over the country. In 1867 he invested twelve
thousand dollars in the woolen factory, which had been
established a short time before, but sold his interest
therein in 1872. He also owned at one time a tract of
four hundred and twenty-seven acres of land all in one
body adjoining the village east and south, purchasing
this in 1861, and in addition to this he owned fifty
lots in the village of Otsego, but he suffered a great
loss in this, for after the war prices in property
also greatly depreciated. In 1876 Mr. Higgins removed
to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he assumed charge of
a mill for one year, subsequent to which time he again
returned to Allegan county, taking up his abode in
Otsego township, where he purchased forty acres of
land on which stood a mill, this constituting a
portion of his present home property. He added to his
original purchase from time to time until his farm
embraced four hundred acres, but he has since disposed
of some of it and now retains possession of one
hundred and twenty acres. This he has greatly
improved, erecting modern and substantial buildings,
and his place today ranks among the valuable
properties of this portion of the county. His mill and
barn were destroyed by fire, which caused him a loss
of four thousand dollars, as he had no insurance on
the mill property. He soon rebuilt the sawmill,
however, and has arranged a feed mill in connection.
Mr. Higgins has also been interested in the railroad
development of this section of the state, having owned
considerable stock in the Grand Trunk Railroad Company
as well as in the Grand Rapids & Indiana Company, but
he lost several thousand dollars in these investments.
He has been interested in various enterprises from an
early day, and while some have proved a failure
financially he has prospered in others, so that he has
acquired altogether a very comfortable competence. Mr.
Higgins has been three times married. He was first
wedded August 17, 1850, to Mrs. Eliza A. Cole, a
native of Allegheny county, New York, who in her
maidenhood bore the name of Fairwell. Her death
occurred in the Allegan county home, March 1, 1884,
when she had reached the age of sixty-two years, her
birth occurring January 11, 1822. There was one son by
this union, Morton Willard, who was born September 15,
1853, and died April 15, 1868. Mr. Higgins was married
November 22, 1885, to Miss Harriet A. Blackman, who
was born in Ohio, February 5, 1827, and came to
Michigan with her parents in 1853, her father being
John H. Blackman. Previous to her marriage she was
engaged for several years in the profession of
teaching, having taught for eight years in the Allegan
high school. Her death occurred May 19, 1890. February
21, 1891, Mr. Higgins married Mrs. Lovinia Seymour
Hurley, a daughter of Frank Seymour. She was born in
Clyde township, this county, April 9, 1862. She is a
niece of her husband's second wife. Mr. Higgins
supported the Whig party in early years, casting his
first presidential ballot for Zachary Taylor, and upon
the formation of the new Republican party he supported
its principles, voting for its first presidential
nominee, Fremont, and has since supported the
candidates of that party. He assisted the movement to
establish the first Republican newspaper in Kalamazoo
county, the Telegraph. He has taken an active and
helpful interest in all public affairs, holding the
office of school director for many years, while in
1850 he was elected township clerk, filling the office
for two years. In 1856 he was elected sheriff of
Allegan county, being the first Republican sheriff,
the nomination having been urged upon him by a
committee of citizens. He served in that capacity for
two years, refusing a re-nomination. He was likewise
the first president of the village of Otsego, filling
the office for three or four terms, while for more
than two decades he has served his school district as
assessor. He has been identified with the
Congregational church at Otsego since 1863, and has
served as church trustee for many years. He
contributed liberally to the building of the church of
that denomination and has since been a heavy
contributor to its support. He is identified with the
Masonic order, belonging to the Blue Lodge at Otsego
and the Royal Arch Chapter at Kalamazoo. There is
perhaps no man in Allegan county who has done so much
for the development and up-building of various
commercial and industrial enterprises as Mr. Higgins.
He has given both time and money, and it is due to his
untiring efforts that a great majority of the public
enterprises of this section of the state have met with
success. When he came to Allegan county as a boy there
was every evidence of frontier life to be seen. Many
kinds of wild animals were still to be seen roaming
over the prairies and one had ample opportunity to
indulge his love of hunting. Otsego at that time
contained but three houses, but as the years have
passed it has now become a thriving and enterprising
little village. Mr. Higgins instituted the milling
business in his locality and this business has since
become one of the most important in this great state.
Mr. Higgins has ever followed the most reliable and
straightforward methods in his business transactions
and has thereby won the confidence and esteem of all
with whom he has been associated. He has now passed
the eighty-third milestone on life's journey and has
lived in Allegan county for more than seven decades,
being one of the oldest living citizens at the present
time in point of continuous residence in the county.
Census scans below will open in an new
window
Jabin Higgins ,aged 51, 1850 Census
HIGGINS JABIN S 61 M W NY MI ALLEGAN OTSEGO 1860
HIGGINS MARVEN 25 M W NY MI ALLEGAN OTSEGO 1860
HIGGINS WILLIARD 35 M W NY MI ALLEGAN OTSEGO 1860
HIGGINS WILLIARD 45 M W NY MI ALLEGAN OTSEGO 1870
Image 1 &
Image 2
HIGGINS ZONAS (Zenas)32 M W MI MI ALLEGAN OTSEGO 1870
Household:1880
Name Relation Marital Status
Gender Race Age
Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Willard HIGGINS Self M Male W 55 NY Sawmill NY VT
Eliza HIGGINS Wife M Female W 55 NY Housekeeping VT NY
Francelia
DRAKE SDau M Female W 39 MI Housekeeping NY NY
Emma BROOKS Other S Female W 22 MI Domestic VT ---
Jabin
BROOKS Other W Male W 81 NY None VT CT
John KEEFER Other S Male W 26 PA Sawmill PA PA
Frank ULUM Other S Male W 22 MI Sawmill --- ---
George THOMPSON Other S Male W 30 MI Sawmill --- ---
Riley ULUM Other S Male W 19 MI Sawmill --- ---
Willard DRAKE Nephew S Male W 21 MI Sawmill NY MI
Birton
DRAKE Nephew S Male W 14 MI On Farm NY MI
Source Information:
Census Place Otsego, Allegan,
Michigan Family History Library Film 1254569
NA Film Number T9-0569 Page Number
412B
HIGGINS ORLIN S 56 M W MI MI ALLEGAN OTSEGO TWP 1900
HIGGINS WILLARD 77 M W NY MI ALLEGAN OTSEGO TWP 1900
HIGGINS ORLIN 67 M W MI MI ALLEGAN OTSEGO TWP 1910
HIGGINS WILLIARD 87 M W NY MI ALLEGAN OTSEGO TWP 1910
. . . .
Bio of SYLVESTER
HIGGINS of Michigan
Source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Barry and Eaton
Counties, Michigan ...By Chapman Brothers Published 1891
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM.
SYLVESTER HIGGINS. The largest mill in the vicinity
of Bellevue, is that put up by Sylvester Higgins some years since,
and now operated by the firm of S. & C. L. Higgins, who manufacture
pickets, broom handles and other varieties of lumber products. The
mill is 28x42 feet, of thirty horse-power, and has a capacity of six
thousand square feet per day. The company ships lumber to Battle
Creek and Lansing, and does a large business. The senior partner is
the owner of a fine farm consisting of one hundred and sixty-five
acres on section 9, Bellevue Township, ninety-five acres being
improved with a full line of substantial buildings, an orchard, and
the minor adornments and conveniences which belong to a
well-regulated estate. All these have resulted from the energy and
good judgment of the present owner of the place. Samuel
Higgins, the father of our subject, is numbered among the
pioneers of Eaton County, he having been the first to settle in the
northern part of Bellevue Township. He was born in Middle Haddam,
Conn., and was a shoemaker by trade, and also carried on a farm in
Franklin County, Mass. He removed from that place to North Adams,
where he worked in a calico factory until 1836, when he came hither.
He bought sixty acres of Government land, which is a part of the
present estate of his son Sylvester, and taking up his residence in
a log house, followed farming until a short time before his death.
He then lived retired in Marshall, but died at Battle Creek while on
a visit there. He was then seventy-five years old. During the
Revolution he went out to defend Boston Harbor. He was an Elder in
the Presbyterian Church, and was an upright and earnest Christian.
His wife, formerly Elizabeth Nims, was born in Shelburne, Mass., and
died in Bellevue when sixty- eight years old. The family of which
Sylvester Higgins is the sixth member and the only survivor,
included eleven brothers and sisters. He was born in Heath, Mass.,
March 8, 1810, and until he was twenty years old lived on a farm
there. He had good common school privileges and excellent home
training, remaining under the parental roof until he was apprenticed
at wagon-making at Colerain. After two years spent in that place, he
took a tramp with a partner to Norwich, where he hired out for the
winter. Thence he went to Windham, Conn., where he worked two years,
going from that place to North Adams, where, as one of the firm of
Higgins & Everett he was engaged in manufacturing carriages and
repairing coaches three years. In the spring of 1837 Mr. Higgins
came to this State, and buying land in the township in which he now
lives he tilled the soil here until the fall of 1838, when he
returned to Massachusetts. He took a contract to build twenty-five
wagons at Charlemont, and when the job was finished went to
Covington, built a shop and carried it on five years. Coming again
to Southern Michigan he built a log house and again took up farm
work on a thirty-five acre tract north of Bellevue. He bought and
sold farms for three or four years, and made money in this way. He
purchased property on section 9, and in 1850 bought the homestead of
sixty, acres, upon which he located, and to which he added until the
estate amounted to two hundred acres. In 1868 he put up an immense
barn at a cost of $3,000, and also started a sawmill of ten
horse-power. A couple of years later he built the present mill. He
was also engaged in hop raising for some time, cultivating six acres
a year, and had a large hop house. His son C. L., who is a natural
mechanic, invented a hop press and they built three of them and
baled some hops. Mr. Higgins keeps some stock, but makes a specialty
of wheat and clover seed, his sales of the latter amounting to from
$200 to $300 per year. July 8, 1834, Mr. Higgins and Miss Eliza M.
Bisbee became husband and wife, the wedding ceremony taking place at
the bride's home in Plainfield, Mass. That lady was a daughter of
John Bisbee, a Massachusetts farmer, was a capable housekeeper, a
devoted wife and mother, and a good neighbor. She was a Spiritualist
in belief. She shared her husband's fortunes more than half a
century, closing her eyes to earthly scenes February 5, 1888, at the
age of seventy-seven years. The children that came to bless this
happy union are five in number: Charles, the first-born, is
proprietor of the Toronto (Canada) Billiard Hall; Mary is the wife
of Ira Scargent, their home being in Bellevue; C. L., his
father's partner, married Miss Caroline Fitch, and has four
children; Henry, who is now a traveling salesman, was a member of
the Twentieth Michigan Infantry during the Civil War; Horatio is a
manufacturer of lumber, and has also a cider mill and jelly
factory in Bellevue.
C. L. Higgins volunteered in August, 1861, in
the Sixty-sixth Illinois Regiment of Western Sharpshooters, Company
C, and was mustered into service at St. Louis, Mo. He fought at
Pittsburg Landing, Ft. Donelson and Shiloh, and during the advance
to Atlanta. He was mustered out in August, 1864. He is a carpenter
by trade, and is a member of the order of Patrons of Industry. Mr.
Higgins served as Justice of the Peace four years, Commissioner of
Highways three years, and had a place upon the School Board twenty
years in succession. He votes a straight Republican ticket and has
frequently been sent to county and State conventions. Although
eighty-one years old he is still able to stand in the mill and saw
pickets all day, a feat that few men of seventy would find easy to
accomplish. He is widely known and well regarded by his
acquaintances.
see Civil War information of his son
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mjhiggins/n-cw1ai.htm
17 Higgins, Cyrus L (includes census
info for the family)
. . . . . . .
01 Jun 2007
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~cemphoto/mi/kalamazoo/ross/augusta/augusta.html
Augusta Village Cemetery, Augusta, Ross Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan
Family Plot marker, Graves 114 through 116
(inclusive), common inscription: Higgins
first inscription - Gilbert Higgins, Died Sept. 1, 1885: Aged 82 Y'rs 3 M's & 9 D's,
gone but not
forgotten
second inscription - Julia A. Higgins, Died Sept. 11,
1887: Aged 58 Y'rs & 22 D's, at rest
third inscription - Lola H., wife of E.G. Seeley, Died Feb. 17, 1892. Aged 29 years
Grave 114 - Lola
Grave 115 - Gilbert
Grave 116 - Julia A.
HIGGINS GILBERT 55 M W NY MI KALAMAZOO ROSS TWP 1860
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HIGGINS GILBERT 67 M W NY MI KALAMAZOO AUGUSTA 1870
Household:1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age
Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Gilbert HIGGINS Self M Male W 77 NY Mill Wright CT CT
Julia A. HIGGINS Wife M Female W 50 NY Keep.House VT CT
James P. HARMS Other S Male W 27 PA Day Laborer PA PA
Source Information:
Census Place Ross, Kalamazoo, Michigan Family History Library Film 1254586
NA Film Number T9-0586 Page Number 310C
Michigan Historical Society
Gilbert Higgins died at his home in Augusta on the 5th of September, 1885. Mr. Higgins came to Otsego in
1834. He was a millwright. He came to Augusta in 1835; built the first mill and the first frame house in that
place. As a millwright he was a very useful man for this new country. He died in the house he erected in
his robust manhood leaving a good name among his fellow men for the usefulness of his life and for his
excellent character. He leaves a wife, a son and a daughter.
..............
02 Dec 2006
http://www.willett.org/ovid/reedcem.htm
Cemetery Burial Records of Reed Cemetery Shiawassee & Clinton County, Michigan
NAME RELATION BIRTH DEATH AGE DAY LOT NOTE/page #
Higgins, George W. 1887 9/24/1954 67 165.4
Higgins, Louie 1904 1919 15- 165.3
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25 Aug 2006
Johnston's Detroit city directory and advertising gazetteer of Michigan
Detroit: Published by J.D. Johnston, 1859
Higgins, Thomas, Groceries & Provisions,186 Michigan ave W.
-Best Connection census-
HIGGINS THOS 35 M W IREL MI WAYNE 5-WD DETROIT 1860
Listed as Grocer
HIGGINS THOMAS 46 M W IREL MI WAYNE 3-WD DETROIT 1870
Employed at Customs House
Household:1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age
Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Thomas HIGGINS Self M Male W 54 IRE Customs Inspector IRE IRE
Martha HIGGINS Wife M Female W 46 NY Keeping House NY NY
John T. HIGGINS Son S Male W 26 IL R. R. Clerk IRE NY
Wm. H. HIGGINS Son S Male W 23 IL Clerk At Car Works IRE NY
Francis J. HIGGINS Son S Male W 20 MI R.R. Clerk IRE NY
Minnie E. HIGGINS Dau S Female W 18 MI At School IRE NY
Gertrude E. HIGGINS Dau S Female W 16 MI At School IRE NY
Agnes HIGGINS Dau S Female W 13 MI At School IRE NY
Florence HIGGINS Dau S Female W 8 MI IRE NY
Edith SITGREEVES Other S Female W 20 ENG Seamstress ENG ENG
Source Information:
Census Place Detroit, Wayne, Michigan Family History Library Film 1254612
NA Film Number T9-0612 Page Number 431C
Higgins, Pat, Wagonmaker,91 Sixth
Higgins, Thomas, Laborer,185 Abbott
Higgins, Mrs. Jane, 299 Brush
Higgens, Charles, Tailor, Beacon
Higgins, Hiram, corner of Woodward ave & Farnsworth
.........
09 Mar 2006
http://www.macatawa.org/~devries/StMarysChurchCemetery.html
St. Mary's Church Cemetery Ottawa County, Michigan
2 miles West of Marne, Section 34.
HIGGINS George, 1880 - 1913
Margaret, 1854 - 1900
Thomas,
son of J. & M., d. May 30, 1885; Age 2-9-20
. . . . . .
17 Jan 2006
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mimanist/ManBiographies.html
MANISTEE COUNTY BIOGRAPHIES
HIGGINS, Andrew
Andrew HIGGINS is a native of Canada, and came to this country in 1860, to Saginaw. In 1869 he came to
Manistee and worked in the mills until 1878. In 1877 he engaged in the livery business with A. D. KIRBY.
They continued in business one year, and Mr. HIGGINS withdrew and opened a stable in the rear of the Dunham
House. In 1879 he changed to his present location on River Street.
-History of Manistee, Mason & Oceana Counties, Michigan, Illustrated. Published 1882 by H. R. Page &
Co., Chicago
1880 Census Household:
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age
Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Andrew HIGGINS Self M Male W 29 CAN Keeping A Livery
Stable IRE IRE
Francis HIGGINS Wife M Female W 22 WI Keeping House
CAN CAN
Mary O'NEIL Other S Female W 24 MI Domestic Servant
IRE WI
Source Information:
Census Place 2nd Ward, Manistee, Manistee, Michigan Family History Library Film 1254593
NA Film Number T9-0593 Page Number 89D
Other Census Scans:
HIGGINS ANDREW 48 M W CANA MANISTEE MI 1900
(Best fit-Husband & Wife names match, and ages, also country of
origin,
this census states he is superintendent at Saw Mill)
HIGGINS ANDREW 57 M W CANA MI MANISTEE 3-WD MANISTEE 1910
HIGGINS FRANCIS 62 F W WI MI MANISTEE 4-WD MANISTEE 1920
a Widowed Francis and daughter Irene
. . . . . .
09
Dec 2005
-Bible Record of Higgins Family-
Originally owned by Samual & Juliann Higgins
(has a notation of Springport Michigan)
In possession at time of copying of Eugene Higgins 1701
First Street, Jackson, Michigan
(Originally) Copied by Marcia Higgins Haughey
-Births-
Samuel, Son of Isaac and Asenath Higgins, born April 15,1797
Juliann, Daughter of Nathan and Nancy Skellinger born February 8,1798
--Their children--
Lewis Tooker Higgins, born November 28,1818
Charles Seward Higgins , born December 18,1820
Adelia Anette Higgins, born July 11, 1823
William Skellinger Higgins, born July 29,1825
Harriet Skellinger Higgins, born June 18, 1828
Raselass Higgins,
born August 3, 1831
Ruth Higgins,
born August 26, 1832
Samuel Ross Higgins*, born March 17, 1834
*see list of his children below
Martha Higgins,
b born February 19, 1837
*Children of Samuel Ross Higgins and Adeline Knowles Higgins
Eugene Higgins*, born December 27,1863
*see list of his children below
Annie Higgins, born August 1,1865
*Children of Eugene Higgins and Edith Herrick Higgins
Marcia Cornelia Higgins, born July 5, 1899
Adeline Edith Higgins, born May 17,1900
Florence Anna Higgins, born April 3,1906
-Marriages-
Samuel Higgins and Juliann Skellinger, February 5, 1818
Samuel Ross Higgins and Adeline Knowles, May 8, 1861
Eugene Higgins and Edith E. Herrick, February 2, 1896
Annie Higgins and Charles W. Burren, (date not given)
Florence Anna Higgins and Frederick Barrett Southworth, February 10,1934
Marcia C. Higgins and John Francis Haughey, September 3 or 8, 1928
-Deaths-
Isac (sp?) Higgins ,
September 28,1819,age 69 years
Asenath Higgins,
Sept 27, 1824,age 63 years
Nathan Skellinger, Jun(ior), died October 25,1827,age 20
years
Raselass Higgins,
died August 3, 1827
Ruth Higgins,
died Oct 19,1832, age 1 month 17 days
Harriet Skellinger Higgins Gillett, wife of Myron
Gillett,
died June 20,1857,aged 29 years 2 days
Nathan Skellinger
died September 1823
Juliann Higgins,
died September 8,1862, age 64 years 7 months
Samuel Higgins,
December 4, 1863, age 65 years 7 months
Samuel Ross Higgins,
died February 21, 1870, age 35 years 11 months
Adeline E. Higgins,
died May 28, 1900
Edith E. Higgins,
October 16,1823
Anna Higgins Bullen,
Died November 1929
Adeline Knowles Higgins Dey died December 8,1914
-Census Findings-
View 1850 MI Census
Scan Samuel Higgins MICHIGAN JACKSON SPRINGPORT
View
1860 MI Census
Scan HIGGINS SAMUL 69 JACKSON SPRINGPORT
View
1870 MI Census
Scan HIGGINS ADALINE 31 JACKSON SPRINGPORT TWP
View
1870 MI Census
Scan GILLETT MYRON 48 JACKSON SPRINGPORT TWP
Household:1880
Name Marital Status Gender Age Birthplace Occupation
Merton L. DEY M Male
41 MI Farmer
Adaline H. DEY M Female 41 PA Keeping House
Eugene L. HIGGINS S Male 16 MI Farm Laborer
Anna HIGGINS S Female 14 MI At Home
Harry W. DEY S Male
4 MI At Home
George I. ALLEN S Male 23 MI Farm Laborer
Source Information:
Census Place Springport, Jackson, Michigan
Family History Library Film 1254585
Page Number 231A
View
1900 MI Census Scan
HIGGINS ANNA 35 JACKSON SPRINGPORT TWP
. . . . . . . . . . . .
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Dec 2005
Advertisement
for The Park House Hotel -
E. M. Higgins (Edward M. Higgins) Proprietor
addrd 12 Jan 2010
Source: W.A. Norton's Cadillac (Michigan) city directory - Published
1900
Image of
Edward M. Higgins
Edward M. Higgins was born at Palmyra,
Jefferson county, Wisconsin, February 22, 1848, and attended the
Palmyra high school until nineteen years of age. He then finished
his education at Bryantt and Stratton's Commercial College, Chicago.
After completing his course he was employed as bookkeeper for a
number of years for H. M. Higgins at 117 Randolph street, Chicago.
He located at Cadillac April 24, 1892, as landlord of the Park
House, in which place he is doing a very successful hotel business.
He was elected alderman of the first ward in the spring of 1897 and
served as such until the spring of 1899 with good success. The
people then saw fit to elect him as alderman at large, which
position he now holds. As a citizen Mr. Higgins is public spirited
and progressive, warmly in favor of all enterprises that look toward
the growth of the city and the public good. He was married to
Mrs. Anna Rogers February 20, 1896, and one bright little son
blesses this
union.
View
1900 MI Census HIGGINS EDWARD WEXFORD CADILLAC 1900
His widowed wife Anna in 1910 & 1920
View
1910 MI census Scan HIGGINS ANNA 47 Wexford CADILLAC
View
1920 MI Census Scan HIGGINS ANNA 50 FWEXFORD CADILLAC
. . . . .
27 Jun 2005
LAPORTE CEMETERY, MIDLAND, MICHIGAN
http://www.mifamilyhistory.org/midland/laporte.htm
Row twenty five
Higgins, Susie Mae 1865 - 1883
Higgins, Mary C. 1901 - 1984
together forever
Higgins, Frank M. 1896 - 1967
Row twenty three
Higgins, Clara M. died Aug. 15, 1888 age 1m dau. of F. M. & M.
Higgins, Johnie C. died Mar. 10, 1888 age 2y son of F. M. & M.
Higgins monument
Higgins, Frank M. 1896 - 1967
Higgins, Mary Anna died June 17, 1924
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SAGINAW County, MI
Dibean Marriage Index
Source
03
February 2004
| Marriage
Index |
| SURNAME |
NAME |
SPOUSE
SURNAME |
SPOUSE |
DATE |
COUNTY |
CITY |
DOCUMENT |
| HIGGINS |
SAMUEL
G |
ROSE |
BLANCH |
00
XXX 1880 |
SAGINAW |
|
SAGINAW
INDEX |
| HIGGINS |
ROSCOE
C |
STURGILL |
MARTHA |
03
NOV 1902 |
SAGINAW |
|
|
| HIGGINS |
LOUIS |
GLASFORD |
CELIA |
00
XXX 1883 |
SAGINAW |
|
SAGINAW
INDEX |
| HIGGINS |
LOUIS |
ARMSTRONG |
CELIA |
00
XXX 1883 |
SAGINAW |
|
SAGINAW
INDEX |
| HIGGINS |
JOHN |
SMITH |
MARY
J |
00
XXX 1883 |
SAGINAW |
|
SAGINAW
INDEX |
| HIGGINS |
JAMES |
STERLING |
MARY |
00
XXX 1882 |
SAGINAW |
|
SAGINAW
INDEX |
| HIGGINS |
JAMES |
PEARSON |
MARGARET |
00
XXX 1878 |
SAGINAW |
|
SAGINAW
INDEX |
| HIGGINS |
GERTRUDE |
SWAINE |
ELIAS |
00
XXX 1884 |
SAGINAW |
|
SAGINAW
INDEX |
| HIGGINS |
ANNA |
GALLIN |
CHARLES |
00
XXX 1872 |
SAGINAW |
|
SAGINAW
INDEX |
| HIGGINS |
ANN |
MCCARTHY |
THOMAS |
00
XXX 1878 |
SAGINAW |
|
SAGINAW
INDEX |
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Obituary Index Saginaw Library
http://obits.netsource-one.net/
New URL 25 July 2004
Hyperlink (Off Site) may provide information on:
Spouse, Date
of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death, Place of Death. Cemetery
 06/13/1934 HIGGINS,
ADELINE
Child Of: MR. & MRS. FRANK
HIGGINS
Age: INFANT
Date of Death: Wednesday, June 13, 1934
Place of Death: SAGINAW, MI
Cemetery: MT. OLIVET
Funeral Home: DEISLER
07/04/1975 HIGGINS,
AGNES B.
Spouse's Name: CLAUDE
Higgins
---
Date of Birth: Thursday, October 4, 1894
Place of Birth: BLUMFIELD TWP., MI
Date of Death: Friday, July 4, 1975
Place of Death: MILLINGTON, MI
Cemetery: BLUMFIELD TWP.
03/09/2005
HIGGINS, ARNOLD
Spouse's Name:
LELA KURPSEL
Married: 08/25/1946
---
Child Of: CLAUDE & AGNES B. PRIES
Age: 82
Date of Birth: Sunday, January 14, 1923
Place of Birth: BUENA VISTA TWP., SAGINAW CO., MI
Date of Death: Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Place of Death: FRANKENMUTH, MI
Cemetery: MILLINGTON
Church: ST. PAUL LUTHERAN
Funeral Home: HANLIN (MILLINGTON)
12/10/1931 HIGGINS,
ARTHUR
Age: 56
Date of Birth: Wednesday, June 22, 1870
Place of Birth: MIDLAND CO., MI
Date of Death: Thursday, December 10, 1931
Place of Death: SAGINAW, MI
Cemetery: MIDLAND
Misc: FOUND DEAD IN SAGINAW HOTEL RM/INQUEST
Funeral Home: LOOSE (FREELAND)
01/18/1979 HIGGINS,
CHARLES F.
Spouse's Name: MARILYN DAVIDSON
--
Date of Birth: Friday, June 7, 1935
Place of Birth: ALPENA, MI
Date of Death: Thursday, January 18, 1979
Place of Death: SAGINAW, MI
01/08/1921 HIGGINS,
CLARA
Date of Birth: 00 / 00 / 1858
Date of Death: Saturday, January 8, 1921
11/12/1959 HIGGINS,
CLAUDE
Spouse's Name: AGNES
--
Age: 67
Date of Birth: Saturday, April 30, 1892
Place of Birth: BLUMFIELD TWP., MI
Date of Death: Thursday, November 12, 1959
Place of Death: DETROIT, MI
Cemetery: BLUMFIELD TWP.
Church: ST. PAUL LUTH. (MILLINGTON)
Funeral Home: HANLIN (MILLINGTON)
12/17/1935 HIGGINS,
CORA
Maiden Name: HESS
Spouse's Name: WILLIAM Higgins
Married: 00/00/1903
--
Child Of: MR. & MRS. MILTON
Age: 64
Place of Birth: PA
Date of Death: Tuesday, December 17, 1935
Year moved to US/Saginaw: TUSCOLA CO. ABOUT 1880
Cemetery: WATROUSVILLE
Misc: WIFE OF JUNIATA TWP. SUPERVISOR
02/05/2002 HIGGINS,
CURTIS C.
Spouse's Name: ANN
--
Date of Birth: Thursday, September 11, 1924
Place of Birth: EAST DUBUQUE, IA
Date of Death: Tuesday, February 5, 2002
Place of Death: HALE, MI
Military: US NAVY
09/14/1985 HIGGINS,
DALE PAUL
Date of Death: Saturday, September 14, 1985
Place of Death: GRAND RAPIDS, MI
10/20/1994 HIGGINS,
DENNIS H.
Date of Death: Thursday, October 20, 1994
10/03/1983 HIGGINS,
DOROTHY
Maiden Name: WOODSON
--
Date of Birth: Thursday, November 16, 1933
Place of Birth: MEMPHIS, TN
Date of Death: Monday, October 3, 1983
Place of Death: SAGINAW, MI
Cemetery: BURR OAK (CHICAGO)
05/06/1995 HIGGINS,
DOROTHY ANN
Maiden Name: CARSON
Spouse's Name: FRANK E.
Date of Birth: Friday, April 17, 1925
Date of Death: Saturday, May 6, 1995
Place of Death: SARASOTA, FL
08/14/1973 HIGGINS,
EDWARD M. (TED)
Spouse's Name: MARY CHLUDIL
--
Date of Birth: Tuesday, June 17, 1919
Place of Birth: MUSKEGON, MI
Date of Death: Tuesday, August 14, 1973
Place of Death: SAGINAW, MI
Military: VETERAN
Cemetery: EASTLAWN
06/20/1978 HIGGINS,
EILEEN K.
Date of Birth: Monday, March 21, 1921
Place of Birth: SAGINAW, MI
Date of Death: Tuesday, June 20, 1978
Place of Death: SAGINAW, MI
Military: WWII US NAVY
Cemetery: ST. ELIZABETH
01/00/1890 HIGGINS,
ELIZA
Child Of: MOTHER OF MRS.
TERENCE KELL
Age: 55
Date of Death: 01 / 00 / 1890
Place of Death: SAGINAW, MI
Misc: DIED OF CONSUMPTION
09/05/2000 HIGGINS,
ELIZABETH M. SMITH
Maiden Name: BITTNER
Spouse's Name: CYRIL (2) LYLE (1)
--
Date of Birth: Tuesday, September 29, 1903
Place of Birth: REESE, MI
Date of Death: Tuesday, September 5, 2000
Place of Death: PORT RICHEY, FL
Cemetery: MT. OLIVET
12/17/1999 HIGGINS,
EMIL W.
Spouse's Name:
EMMA HERZOG
--
Date of Birth: Thursday, June 21, 1917
Place of Birth: BLUMFIELD TWP., MI
Date of Death: Friday, December 17, 1999
Place of Death: FLINT, MI
Cemetery: MILLINGTON TWP
00/00/0000 HIGGINS,
EVELYN
Age: 85
Date of Death:
Cemetery: ELKLAND TWP
02/29/1953 HIGGINS,
FRANK C.
Spouse's Name: ADELINE SYROKD
Married: 05/21/1931
--
Child Of: ETHEL
Age: 44
Date of Birth: Thursday, January 14, 1909
Place of Birth: MIDLAND CO., MI
Date of Death: -1, -1 -1, -1
Place of Death: SAGINAW, MI
Year moved to US/Saginaw: SAGINAW 1931
Cemetery: MT. OLIVET
Misc: CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING/
CAME TO SAGINAW FROM BAY CITY
Funeral Home: CEDERBERG
03/04/2004 HIGGINS,
FRANK E. JR.
Child Of: FRANK E. SR. &
DOROTHY CARSON
Age: 56
Date of Birth: Tuesday, April 8, 1947
Date of Death: Thursday, March 4, 2004
Place of Death: SAGINAW, MI
Cemetery: CREMATION
Misc: PIPEFITTER
Funeral Home: CUNNINGHAM-TAYLOR
05/17/1967 HIGGINS,
FRANK M.
Spouse's Name: MARY C. JOYNT
Married: 06/06/1923
--
Age: 70
Date of Birth: Wednesday, July 1, 1896
Place of Birth: RICHLAND TWP., MI
Date of Death: Wednesday, May 17, 1967
Place of Death: SAGINAW, MI
Cemetery: LAPORTE
Misc: RETIRED FARMER
Church: METH. (LAPORTE)
Funeral Home: TAYLOR
11/11/1991 HIGGINS,
GEORGIA E.
Maiden Name: DUVALL
Spouse's Name: WILLIAM DOUGLAS
--
Date of Birth: Tuesday, April 19, 1910
Place of Birth: FARMERSBURG, IN
Date of Death: Monday, November 11, 1991
Place of Death: SAGINAW, MI
Cemetery: PINEGROVE (F)
03/26/1990 HIGGINS,
HELEN H.
Date of Birth: Saturday, February 24, 1906
Place of Birth: WATROUSVILLE, MI
Date of Death: Monday, March 26, 1990
Place of Death: ROSE CITY, MI
Cemetery: WATROUSVILLE
05/02/1997 HIGGINS,
IRMA G.
Maiden Name: STERN
Spouse's Name: LEWIS G.
--
Date of Birth: Tuesday, May 7, 1912
Place of Birth: FRANKENMUTH, MI
Date of Death: Friday, May 2, 1997
Place of Death: SAGINAW, MI
Cemetery: OAKWOOD
02/10/1945 HIGGINS,
IZORA
Age: 83
Date of Birth: Friday, August 16, 1861
Place of Birth: CONNEAUTVILLE, PA
Date of Death: Saturday, February 10, 1945
Place of Death: MIDLAND, MI
Cemetery: HOPE
Misc: WELL KNOWN HOPE TWP. RESIDENT
Church: METH. (HOPE)
06/00/1907 HIGGINS,
JOHN H.
Age: 45
Place of Birth: SPRINGFIELD, IL
Date of Death: 06 / 00 / 1907
07/25/1954 HIGGINS,
JUDITH
Child Of: MR. AND MRS. CARL (Higgins)
Age: 22 MONTHS
Date of Death: Sunday, July 25, 1954
Place of Death: IONIA CO., MI
02/00/1973 HIGGINS,
LEWIS G.
Spouse's Name: IRMA STERN
--
Date of Birth: Wednesday, April 20, 1904
Place of Birth: DYERSVILLE, IA
Date of Death: 02 / 00 / 1973
Place of Death: ST. PETERSBURG, FL
06/00/1995 HIGGINS,
LONIE
Maiden Name: HIGGINS
Spouse's Name: W. L. BROWN
--
Date of Birth: Saturday, March 4, 1905
Place of Birth: RAMSHORN, LA
Date of Death: 06 / 00 / 1995
Cemetery: PINE BLUFF, AR
04/20/1956 HIGGINS,
LOTTIE
Maiden Name: WEAVER
Spouse's Name: JOHN
Married: 10/00/1921
Spouse's Death: 07/00/1938
Age: 79
Date of Birth: Sunday, June 25, 1876
Place of Birth: WATROUSVILLE, MI
Date of Death: Friday, April 20, 1956
Place of Death: CARO, MI
Cemetery: RIVERSIDE (VASSAR)
Funeral Home: ATKINS (VASSAR)
12/13/1985 HIGGINS,
MAGGIE
Date of Birth: Thursday, February 6, 1919
Place of Birth: AR
Date of Death: Friday, December 13, 1985
Place of Death: SAGINAW, MI
Cemetery: FORREST CITY, AR
04/20/2005
HIGGINS, MANLEY
M.
Spouse's Name: OTTILLIA
R.
--
Child Of: FRANK M. & MARY JOYNT
Age: 79
Date of Birth: Wednesday, October 28, 1925
Place of Birth: HEMLOCK, MI
Date of Death: Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Military: US NAVY
Cemetery: ROSELAWN
Misc: RESIDENT OF PHOENIX, AZ
06/16/1935 HIGGINS,
MARY ANN
Spouse's Name: FRANK
Married: 08/23/1879
Spouse's Death: 00/00/1900
Age: 74
Date of Birth: Monday, April 29, 1861
Place of Birth: HILLSDALE CO., MI
Date of Death: Sunday, June 16, 1935
Place of Death: RICHLAND TWP., MI
Year moved to US/Saginaw: RICHLAND TWP. 1883
Cemetery: LAPORTE
Misc: RESIDED AND DIED AT FAMILY FARM
Church: METH. (LAPORTE)
09/29/1984 HIGGINS,
MARY C.
Maiden Name: JOYNT
Spouse's Name: FRANK M.
--
Date of Birth: Monday, January 7, 1901
Place of Birth: HOPE, MI
Date of Death: Saturday, September 29, 1984
Place of Death: MIDLAND, MI
Miscellaneous
Cemetery: LAPORTE
10/00/1942 HIGGINS,
MARY ELIZABETH
Maiden Name: FOHT
Married: 00/00/1920
Child Of: WIFE OF SAGINAW NEWS PRINTER
Date of Birth: 00 / 00 / 1899
Place of Birth: GALENA, IL
Date of Death: 10 / 00 / 1942
Cemetery: ST. ELIZABETH
01/00/1938 HIGGINS,
MRS.
Spouse's Name: LEWIS
G.
--
Date of Death: 01 / 00 / 1938
Miscellaneous
Cemetery: FOREST LAWN
11/11/2001 HIGGINS,
OTTILLIA R. (TIL)
Spouse's Name: MANLEY
M.
--
Date of Birth: Wednesday, August 14, 1929
Place of Birth: SAGINAW, MI
Date of Death: Sunday, November 11, 2001
Place of Death: AZ
04/04/1996 HIGGINS,
ROXIE M.
Maiden Name: MAHONEY
Spouse's Name: DONALD G.
--
Date of Birth: Monday, October 16, 1922
Place of Birth: SAGINAW, MI
Date of Death: Thursday, April 4, 1996
Place of Death: SAGINAW, MI
Cemetery: ST. ANDREW
04/00/1902 HIGGINS,
SAMUEL G.
Date of Birth: 00 / 00 / 1856
Place of Birth: STAUNTON, IL
Date of Death: 04 / 00 / 1902
Place of Death: CHICAGO, IL
Cemetery: FOREST LAWN
Misc: WITH PRAIRIE FARM/SAG.COAL/HEINZ PICKLE
00/00/0000 HIGGINS,
SAMUEL G.
SAGINAW COURIER HERALD
Sunday, April 27, 1902
BOARD OF TRADE RESOLUTIONS ON HIS DEATH
02/26/1945 HIGGINS,
SARAH E.
Maiden Name: HOLLOWAY
Spouse's Name: THOMAS
Married: 00/00/1926
Spouse's Death: 09/16/1938
Age: 70
Date of Birth: Thursday, March 12, 1874
Place of Birth: SPRINGFIELD, OH
Date of Death: Monday, February 26, 1945
Cemetery: FOREST LAWN
Church: SPIRITUAL TRUTH
Funeral Home: CASE
09/21/1938 HIGGINS,
THOMAS C.
Spouse's Name: SARAH SEAMAN
Married: 04/03/1928
Age: 64
Date of Birth: Monday, June 15, 1874
Place of Birth: DETROIT, MI
Date of Death: Wednesday, September 21, 1938
Place of Death: SAGINAW, MI
Year moved to US/Saginaw: SAGINAW 1923
Cemetery: FOREST LAWN
Misc: LIBRARIAN MICH.
EMPLOYMNT INST. FOR BLIND
Funeral Home: CASE
12/28/1983 HIGGINS,
WAYNE A.
Spouse's Name: CATHY F. SCHAFER
--
Date of Birth: Tuesday, September 29, 1953
Place of Birth: SAGINAW, MI
Date of Death: Wednesday, December 28, 1983
Place of Death: MILLINGTON, MI
Cemetery: MILLINGTON TWP.
02/03/1995 HIGGINS,
WILLIAM DOUGLAS
Spouse's Name: GEORGIA E. DUVALL
--
Date of Birth: Thursday, February 5, 1903
Place of Birth: LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND
Date of Death: Friday, February 3, 1995
Place of Death: SAGINAW, MI
Cemetery: PINEGROVE (F)
An On Site Search at
http://obits.netsource-one.net/
will list additional Obits with the Higgins surname included.
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Battle Creek, Michigan, 1918 City Directory
Census Information Added by the Webmaster
Each listing here has been visually checked with actual census
image and any discrepancies are noted.
Added 14 May 2003
Higgins, Amelia, (Widow of William H.),
Boards 21 Glendale Avenue
Added 25 June 2004
View 1920 MI Census Scan
Higgins, Clayton F., (Essie A.),
Employee Postum Cereal Company,
Resides 206 Post avenue
Clayton F Higgins,
Age: 39 Year: 1920 USA Census
Birthplace: Michigan Roll: T625_759
Race: White Page: 22B
State: Michigan ED: 61
County: Calhoun Township: Battle Creek
Added 25 June 2004
View 1910 MI Census Scan
View 1920 MI Census Scan
Higgins, Elizabeth M., (Widow William H.)
Boards 111 Orchard Avenue
Higgins, Harry C.,( Margaret),
Dentist 22-23 Hoffmaster Block,
Resides 20 Henry
Harry Higgins,
(Census states him to be a Dentist,
but it says his wife's name is Mary)
Age: 43 Year: 1920 USA Census
Birthplace: Wisconsin Roll: T625_759
Race: White Page: 7B
State: Michigan ED: 52
County: Calhoun Township: Battle Creek
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Higgins, Oscar, (Martha E.),
Assistant Foreman Postum Cereal Company.
Resides 29 James
Oscar Higgins,
Age: 36 Year: 1920 USA Census
Birthplace: Michigan Roll: T625_759
Race: White Page: 13A
State: Michigan ED: 49
County: Calhoun Township: Battle Creek
Higgins, Walter S., (Lottia),
Clerk, Resides 16 Janosh Avenue
Walter F Higgins,
(City directory says middle initial "S",
census for this person matches with wife's name as
Lottie and his profession as a clerk)
Age: 35 Year: 1920 USA Census
Birthplace: Michigan Roll: T625_759
Race: White Page: 11A
State: Michigan ED: 39
County: Calhoun Township: Battle Creek
View 1920 MI Census Scan
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27 July 2003
Adrian City Michigan
Polk's Adrian City Directory, 1903 : containing an alphabetically arranged list of business firms and private citizens, a street guide and householders directory, a classified list of all trades, professions and pursuits, a miscellaneous directory of city and county officers, public and private schools, churches, banks, incorporated institutions, secret and benevolent societies, etc., etc., etc.
Detroit, Mich.: R.L. Polk & Co., c1902, 336 pgs
Higgins, Joseph B., Teamster, res 24 Merrick
Higgins, Nellie, Clerk A. B.
Park, res 24 Merrick
Higgins, Walter S., Clerk, Hotel Gregg, res at Hotel Gregg
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06 Sep 2005
ALPENA CITY
DIRECTORY 1920
http://distantcousin.com/Directories/MI/Alpena/1920/Page.asp?Page=146
Higgins Ellen, clk F E Hagle
bds 610 N 2d av
Higgins Jennie slsldy The Cronin Co bds 610 N 2d av
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Also 
Higgins in the 1870 Michigan Census
1893 Detroit City MI, DIRECTORY
1894 Detroit City DIRECTORY
North MI Forces Civil War Part 3
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information compiled by
Michael James
Higgins Your
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