NEWS: Monument for Col. Jacob Higgins, CW vet, buried Cambria County, PA

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PLAN MONUMENT FOR COLONEL J. HIGGINS

Comrades Will Erect Fine Shaft for Blair County Soldier and Wife

     A monument for Col. Jacob Higgins, of the 125th Regiment of Pennsylvania 
volunteers is to be erected in the near future. A meeting of the Monument committee of 
the Regimental association was held in the office of J. D. Hicks yesterday afternoon. 
Comrades Carl, Dunn and Speelman reported they had visited Johnstown and could 
secure a fair sized granite shaft for $375.
     In view, however, of Mrs. Higgins also being buried along side of her husband, it was 
thought best to try and secure some aditional [sic] money and erect a monument to cost 
not less than $500. The Union bank trustee of the fund reported $248.50 in bank. 
Comrade Carles suggested that a letter be sent at once to the survivors of the regiment 
requesting them to purchase the few remaining histories on hand and that our patriotic 
people be requested to send contributions to the Union bank.
     The committee will promptly fill orders for the history of a nominal price per volume 
and the Union bank will acknowledge, in the daily papers, contributions.
     Colonel Higgins was a Blair county soldier, a veteran of the Civil war as chaplain for 
three months and as a colonel of the 125th Infantry and 22 Cavalry. Mrs. Higgins was a 
patriotic woman, frequently visiting the regiment and worked in the regimental and 
brigade hospitals at Louden and Acqua Creek.
     The committee is composed of H. V. Carles, Thomas Miller, James Dunn, William R. 
Speelman and J. D. Hicks.

Altoona Tribune, Saturday morning, August 10, 1918, page 12