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...funeral of Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41 will be held in the First Parish (Unitarian) Church this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. S. M. Crothers, D.D., '99, the pastor of the church, will officiate, and will be assisted by Rev. E. H. Hall, D.D., pastor emeritus...
...from the Higginson home to the church, the body will be escorted by a company from the Thomas Wentworth Higginson Post, Sons of Veterans, and by a delegation from the Grand Army. The casket will be draped with Colonel Higginson's old army flag, which was carried by his regiment in the Civil War, and will be borne by six colored soldiers of the Shaw Guard, 6th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia...
...church the Loyal Legion, composed of officers who served in the Civil War, and of which Colonel Higginson was a member, will take charge of the services. The body will then be taken to Mount Auburn for cremation, after which the burial services will be held at the family lot in the Cambridge Cemetery. The burial will be private...
Brief Biography of Colonel Higginson...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was born in Cambridge on December 22, 1823. After he was graduated from College in 1841, he attended the Harvard Divinity School, from which he graduated in 1847. He then became a minister of the Theodore Parker school, but in 1858 abandoned the pulpit, having entered actively into literature and also into political affairs, especially in the anti-slavery conflict over Kansas. In 1862 he became a captain in the 51st Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, and afterwards Colonel of the 1st Regiment of South Carolina, composed of freed slaves. He was severely wounded in August...