OBIT: Jacob HIGGINS, 1893, native of Blair County, PA

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DEATH BY AN ACCIDENT.
Col. Jacob Higgins Accidentally Shot Himself Last Night.

  Col. Jacob Higgins, of Johnstown, was found dead in a bath room of 
the Cambria club house, of which he was proprietor, at 7:40 last 
evening.  By his side was a Winchester rifle which he had evidently 
started to clean, and in his body a bullet which must have been 
discharged from the gun as he drew it to him over a trunk.  He was cold 
when found and must have been dead some thirty minutes.  Colonel 
Higgins was born March 7, 1826, in Williamsburg, Blair county.  He 
married Elizabeth R. Snively, of that place, May 23, 1853, and was aged 
at the time of death, 67 years, 2 months and 24 days.  He is survived 
by his wife and three sons - George S., Daniel W. and John R.  Some 
years ago Colonel Higgins conducted a hotel at Hollidaysburg, and later 
engaged in the same calling at Henrietta, this county.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Friday Evening, June 2, 1893