Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Higgins, E J, M D 
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Author: Past & Present Will County IL 1907

Dr. E. J. Higgins, engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery along 
scientific lines at Joliet, his native city, was born September 4, 1871. His 
father, Bartholomew Higgins, a stationary engineer, was born in the north of 
Ireland in 1824 and came to this country with his three sisters when but two 
years old. His parents were both lost at sea. He was reared in New York for 
about seven years and at the age of nine years became a resident of Sandusky, 
Ohio, where he remained until twenty-two years of age. At that time he was 
married to Eleanor Muller and in 1849 they removed to Joliet, Illinois, where 
in 1856 Mr. Higgins secured a position as stationary engineer with the 
Michigan Central Railroad Company, acting in that capacity for thirty-five 
years. His long continued service is incontrovertible evidence of his 
capability and fidelity. He died January 3, 1897, and was survived for several 
years by his wife, who passed away June 3, 1905. Reared in his native city, 
Dr. Higgins entered the public schools at the usual age and passed through 
successive grades until he had completed the common-school course. He entered 
the Northwestern University at Evanston in 1890 to pursue a course in 
medicine, having in the meantime studied along that line under the direction 
of Dr. Shaw and Dr. Curtis in 1888, 1889 and 1890. His collegiate course was 
completed by graduation from the medical department of the Northwestern 
University on the 20th of June, 1901, after which he came to Joliet, where he 
has since been continuously engaged in practice, his success gradually 
increasing as his ability has become recognized. He is a member of the Will 
County Medical Society, the Illinois State Medical Society and the American 
Medical Association and thus keeps in touch with the trend of modern thought 
and progress as represented by the medical fraternity. He has carried his 
investigations and researches far and wide into the realms of professional 
knowledge and is a physician whose ability is acknowledged by his fellow 
members of the medical fraternity and by the general public in a large and 
constantly increasing practice. Dr. Higgins was married in Joliet on the 10th 
of September, 1902, to Miss Mamie Conlon, a daughter of John Conlon, one of 
the early residents of the city where he is still residing. The Doctor and his 
wife have one son, Robert Edward, who was born July 29, 1903. The parents have 
many warm friends in the city where they have spent their entire lives and the 
hospitality of many of the best homes of Joliet is freely accorded them. Dr. 
Higgins is prominent politically as an active worker in the ranks of the 
republican party and belongs to the Northwestern Republican Club and the 
German-American Republican Club. His interest in the questions and issues of 
the day is that of a public-spirited citizen and he is enabled to support his 
position by intelligent argument. His time and attention, however, are chiefly 
given to his profession. He is examiner for several old-line life insurance 
companies and is chief examiner for the Prudential Company. In addition he has 
a large and growing private practice, for which his qualifications well fit 
him. He discharges his duties with a sense of conscientious obligation and his 
efforts have been attended by excellent results when viewed from both a 
professional and financial standpoint. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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