Fountain-Shelby County IN Archives Biographies.....Higgins, A. N. 1852 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   A. N. Higgins, teacher, Veedersburg. The ancestors of the subject of this
sketch came originally from England, Scotland, and Wales. The Higgins family
came from Scotland and settled in Virginia. The earliest known incidents of the
Higginses seem to date from about the year 1770. At that time there was living
in Virginia a family of several boys, all of whom emigrated to Kentucky about
1775. One of them, James Higgins, held an office of some kind in the land office
of Kentucky, and Moses Higgins, the father of A. N., has now in his possession
the certificates of entry to the other brothers as made out by James. James was
afterward captured and burned at the stake by the Indians. William, the direct
ancestor, enlisted in the war of the revolution. He served as a captain under
Washington throughout the war Was present at the battles of Long Island,
Princeton, Gcrmantown, and crossed the Delaware amid the floating ice December
24, 1776, and fought the Hessians at the battle of Trenton. He witnessed the
execution of Major Andre, was challenged by a superior officer, with whom he
fought a duel. William was untouched. The officer's beard was clipped by the
ball from William's pistol. Of the next generation nothing is known, only that
they lived a quiet life in Kentucky, the majority owning slaves. In the third
generation was one William, who came to Indiana at an early day and settled in
Rush county. He had married, while in Kentucky, Elizzabeth Wills, from whom was
born a large family of children. At the death of his father, William questioned
the moral right of slavery, and refused to inherit any property in slaves, which
seems to have prompted his emigration to Indiana. Moses, his eldest son, born
1818, married Mahala B. Womack, born 1816, who likewise came from Kentucky, and
was related in some way, not known to the writer, to the Bryans, into whose
family Daniel Boone married. By her he had nine children, the first four being
girls and the next five boys. Elmazie, the second daughter, married Elias Lee,
by whom she had two children. The eldest, O. P. Lee, has finished the classic
course of study, and now holds a professorship in the normal school at Fort
Scott, Kansas. A. N. Higgins, the eighth child, was born in Shelby county,
Indiana, in 1852. He attended school in the following places: Kokomo, Indiana;
Lebanon, Ohio; Southern State Normal, Carbondale, Illinois; and Ladoga, Indiana.
In 1877 he went to Illinois, where he engaged in teaching for three years.
During his stay there he married, in the spring of 1880, Lucy Watson, of German
parentage, born in 1861. In the fall of 1880 he returned to Indiana to accept
the principalship of the Van Buren township graded school at Veedersburg, which
position he now holds.

Additional Comments:

Van Buren Township

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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