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Mendocino County Biographies

John Higgins. Born in Knox county, Tennessee, February, 8, 1830. When a mere child his parents moved to Illinois. In 1840 they took up their abode in Missouri. In 1845 they returned to Illinois, and there lived until 1849, when they took up their residence in Iowa. In 1850 they immigrated to California, crossing the plains with ox-teams, arriving in Hangtown (Placerville) in September. After mining for some time they returned East in 1852 via Panama. In 1854 they again crossed the plains to California and settled in Contra Costa county, and one year later were residents of San Joaquin county. In 1856 they came to this county and located about two and one-half miles below Hopland. In 1865 he left his father and settled on his present ranch, comprising eight hundred and sixteen acres, located about six miles from Hopland. He married, September 22, 1865, Rebecca W. Neece, a native of Missouri. Lee, George W., and Wiley are the names of their living children. 

SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 611, 612 (Originally) Transcribed by Pat Howard

Higgins, John 
  (appears on same census image as William Higgins noted above)
    HIGGINS JOHN 39 M W TN CA MENDOCINO SANEL TWP 1870 

Household:1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age
Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace 

John HIGGINS Self M Male W 50 TN Farmer KY TN 
Rebecca HIGGINS Wife M Female W 29 MO Keeps House TN TN 
Lee HIGGINS Son S Male W 13 CA At School TN TN 
George E. HIGGINS Son S Male W 11 CA At School TN TN
Wiley HIGGINS Son S Male W 2 CA TN TN 

Source Information:
Census Place Sanel, Mendocino, California Family History Library Film 1254068 
NA Film Number T9-0068 Page Number 329D 

HIGGINS JOHN 70 M W TN CA MENDOCINO SANEL TWP 1900 
         a George Higgins(son?)is living next door

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http://www.calarchives4u.com/Biographies/mendocino/mendo-gill.htm Higgins, William 
William Higgins. Was born in Illinois, May 4, 1833. He went to Missouri when quite young and spent five years. In the fall of 1845, he went to Nauvoo City, Hancock county, Illinois, and spent three years; thence to Iowa in the spring of 1849, and in the spring of 1850, crossed the plains with ox-teams, in company with his father�s family; remained two years in the mines and then returned to the Atlantic States, and spent the summer in Texas. Then went to Jackson county, Missouri, to spend the winter. In the spring of 1854, crossed the plains a second time, bringing a drove of cattle. He spent two years on the San Joaquin plains, and thence to Russian river, locating three miles south of Sanel, arriving there October 16, 1856. Here he remained ten years, and in 1866, moved six miles above Sanel, and 1872, to Ukiah valley, where he has since resided, engaged in farming. Mr. Higgins married, August 31, 1870, Miss Clarica Jane Brown, a native of Oregon. Their children are: Rosalie, Jane Adaline, Ida May and William.

SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 642 (Originally) Transcribed by Pat Howard

HIGGINS WM 36 M W IL CA MENDOCINO SANEL TWP 1870

Household Census:1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age
Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
 
Wm. HIGGINS Self M Male W 47 IL Farmer TN TN 
Clarissa Jane HIGGINS Wife M Female W 27 OR Keeping House KY IL 
Rozelly HIGGINS Dau S Female W 9 CA At Home IL OR 
Jane Adeline HIGGINS Dau S Female W 7 CA At Home IL OR 
Ida May HIGGINS Dau S Female W 4 CA At Home IL OR 
Eleanore HIGGINS Dau S Female W 2 CA At Home IL OR 
William HIGGINS Son S Male W 3M CA At Home IL OR 

Source Information:
Census Place Ukiah, Mendocino, California 
Family History Library Film 1254068 
NA Film Number T9-0068 
Page Number 184C 

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  13 Jan 2007

Source: An Illustrated History of Southern California : embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of lower California: Lew Publishing Company-1890

---Dr. William M. Higgins, Pharmacist, on Central Avenue, Anaheim, was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey,June 18,1826. He was educated at Princeton College, at which he graduated in 1845,with the degree of A.B. He read medicine for a period of two years, and February 22,1849, headed for California on the bark St. Mary. He remained in Rio De Janiero ten months, then went aboard the ship William Brandt, bound for San Francisco, at which place he arrived July 1850,having been ships Doctor for the voyage. After his arrival in San Francisco he was appointed apothacary and bookkeeper in the City Hospital, after which he engaged in mining for a few years. In 1869 he moved to Anaheim and established the drug store on the corner of Center and Lemon Streets and has ever since given his attention to the drug business. In December 1870, he was appointed Postmaster, which office he filled with great acceptability for a continuous term of thirteen years. He has been connected with the educational interests of the city for a number of years, having been clerk of the district for six years, and now is chairman of the school board. He is charter member of the Masonic Lodge, which was organized in 1869. He is also a member of the I.O.O.F. fraternity,Anaheim lodge # 199. He is a charter member of the Abou Bem Adhem lodge in San Francisco, which lodge he had the honor of naming in 1863.
In 1858 he was married in San Francisco to Miss Alice Boyle, a native of Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Michael Boyle,an Irishman and pioneer to this coast of '49.
Miss Alice Boyle was the first graduate of the Cooper Medical College. She then practiced medicine four years,and subsequently took a course at Philadelphia at the Women's Medical College, and was elected an honarary member of the alumni. She was a woman of more than ordinary ability, and had made an enviable reputation as a Physician.
Four years ago she became paralyzed and has since been almost helpless. Dr and Mrs. Higgins have three children,two daughters at home, and a son, Charles C.; a graduate of the California College of Pharmacy, now a prominent druggist in San Francisco.

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http://www.calarchives4u.com/schools/uoc/uoc140-154.htm 
University of California-Directory of Graduates
1864 - 1905-November, 1905 Published by UC Berkeley
CATALOGUE OF GRADUATES. III. GRADUATES OF THE CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 1888: 
   Higgins, Charles C. 2525 Fillmore st, S F

http://mednews.stanford.edu/stanmed/2000fall/woman.html 
Soon West Coast medical schools began accepting women as well. The University of California was the first, with Stanford's precursor just a few years behind. In 1873, UC acquired the Toland School in San Francisco and, as UC was already co-educational, Toland accepted Maria Field Wanzer that year as its first female medical student. Three years later, Wanzer became the first woman graduate of a West Coast medical school.
The same year, in 1876, Alice Boyle Higgins became the first woman to enter the Medical College of the Pacific, at age 40. Married since the age of 16 to William Morris Higgins, who was a registered pharmacist, Alice Higgins had three children. In 1877 she graduated from Medical College of the Pacific, and in 1881 and 1882 she went to the Women's Medical
College of Pennsylvania, where she took a postgraduate course and was made an honorary member of the College's alumnae association. Offered to chair the anatomy department, she declined and returned to her family and opened an office in California. 

Higgins became the pioneer woman doctor in Orange County, successful and with a large practice. Writing about Higgins in the Gazette after her death, a friend noted, "Impecunious patients were never refused medical advice; medicine was also supplied, and often the means to live until the patient was restored to health. Nor could the ingratitude of one or more of her patients harden her heart toward the next applicant for aid. She was too large-minded for that. For every fault she found an excuse, and thereby kept her sympathies always fresh and green." The writer further commented that "from early childhood she evinced a taste for the medical profession. As she grew into womanhood, she developed rare talents in that line." 

Higgins was soon followed by other female medical students at Stanford's precursors. In 1877, Anabel McGaughey Stuart was admitted to the Medical School of the Pacific; in 1878 she became its second woman graduate in 1878. In 1882, the school was renamed Cooper Medical College, and by 1884 four out of the 16 members of the graduating class were female. In the 1880s and 1890s, the percentage of women in the medical school class ranged between 5 and 25 percent, and by the turn of the century women had established a
lasting presence. The Cooper Medical College Class of 1899 boasted 10 women and 34 men in its graduating class (23 percent). 

www.sfms.org 
1876
San Francisco Medical College of the Pacific accepts its first female student, Alice Boyle Higgins, who graduates in 1877 and goes to Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania from 1881 to 1882 for postgraduate training before returning to practice in Orange County. Dr. Higgins wanted to be a physician since childhood but was married at 16 to a pharmacist. She was the mother of three children before she began her medical training at age 40.

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  HIGGINS WM M 34 M W NJ CA SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO 1860 

  HIGGINS WILLIAM M 44 M W NJ CA LOS ANGELES SANTA ANA TWP 1870 

  Household:1880
  Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age
  Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
 
  William M. HIGGINS Self M Male W 53 NJ Druggist & Apothecary NJ NJ 
  Alice HIGGINS Wife M Female W 44 MA Physician IRE IRE
  Fannie E. HIGGINS Dau S Female W 17 CA Atn. School NJ MA 
  Charles HIGGINS Son S Male W 16 CA Atn. School NJ MA 
  Margaret HIGGINS Dau S Female W 10 CA Atn. School NJ MA 

  Source Information:
  Census Place Anaheim, Los Angeles, California  Family History Library Film 1254067 
  NA Film Number T9-0067 Page Number 279D 

  HIGGINS WILLIAM M 74 M W NJ CA ORANGE ANAHEIM 1900

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Also See: 

                  California Resources Part 1
                  CALIFORNIA Resources Part 2 
                  1850 Census of Napa County, California 

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