OBIT: Frank M. HIGGINS, 1887, native of Huntingdon County, PA

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Death of Frank M. Higgins.

  A telegram received in this city on Saturday imparted the sad 
intelligence that Frank M. Higgins, managing editor of the Pittsburgh 
Commercial-Gazette, had died at his residence in that city at 9:15 
o'clock that morning.  His disease was typhoid-pneumonia, contracted 
the Sunday previous.  This brought on mental derangement, and 
congestion of the brain followed, which resulted in his death at the 
hour stated.
  Mr. Higgins was born in Huntingdon, where he passed his boyhood days, 
and where his death will be sorrowfully mourned by his many friends and 
acquaintances.  It was his intention to enter the Baptist ministry, but 
before his graduation from the Bucknell University, at Lewisburg, he 
changed his mind and when his studies were completed at that 
institution he entered the field of journalism.  His first journalistic 
work was on the Johnstown Daily Voice.  From Johnstown he went to 
Pittsburgh and worked for a few months on the Commercial, when he 
changed to the Post, holding the city editorship of that paper for 
several years.  In 1881 he purchased the Uniontown Genius of Liberty, 
but only kept it a year, when he sold the paper and returned to 
Pittsburgh, and in 1882 purchased an interest in the Commercial-Gazette 
and became its managing editor, which position he held at the time of 
his death.  Deceased was aged about 38 years, and leaves a wife and one 
child.

The Huntingdon Journal, Huntingdon, Pa., Friday, November 25, 1887