(4)  Reuben, son of Richard ~2~, and Sarah (Freeman) Higgins, was born 1709.He married (UNKNOWN). Children: Abigail, Hannah, Reuben, Esther and Isaac.

(5)  Reuben ~2~, son of Reuben ~1~ Higgins was born June 24,1739. He removed from Cape Cod to Cape Elizabeth, Maine, at quite an early date. He married UNKNOWN. Children: Hannah Morton, Thankful, Reuben, Sylvanus,  Eleazer, Mariah, Frances, Henry, Abigail, twin of Henry.

                  Census Scan  HIGGINS SYLVANUS 91 M W ME ME CUMBERLAND CAPE ELIZABETH 1860

(6)  Eleazer, son of Reuben ~2~ Higgins, was born at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, July 8, 1772, died of Billious Colic at Yarmouth, November 19, 1826. He was a man who inherited all the sturdy qualities of his ancestors, and was of great influence in every community in which he lived. He was one of the successful shipbuilders of Portland  (Maine), and followed this work later on at Yarmouth. He purchased a farm in Gray, which his son managed, and Eleazer continued in active business and was superintending the building of a ship when his sickness overcame him. He married Susanna Dyer, of Cape Elizabeth, born June 11, 1777, died November 3, 1837.

Household:1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age
Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
 
Orrin S. HIGGINS Self M Male W 42 ME Farmer ME ME
Henrietta HIGGINS Other M Female W 37 ME Keeping House ME ME
Freddie S. HIGGINS Son S Male W 6 ME ME ME
Arthur HIGGINS Father W Male W 72 ME Farmer ME ME
Charles HIGGINS Uncle S Male W 68 ME Farmer ME ME
Hannah PERLEY MotherL W Female W 75 ME ME ME
Anna LEIGHTIN Other S Female W 17 ME Servant ME ME -

Source Information:
Census Place Gray, Cumberland, Maine Family History Library Film 1254478
NA Film Number T9-0478Page Number 335B

Children:
 -1-  Amos, born April 22, 1797 (see forward),
 -2 - Charlotte,  born June 18, 1804, died February 18, 1875. 
 -3 - Arthur, born February 8, 1808, died February 6, 1888.
                 married Susan Perley of Gray, who bore him children: Martha, Orrin and Susan.  
 -4 - George, born June 29, 1809. 
 -5 - Charles, born May 20, 1811. Died April 19,1883. 
 -6 - Alvin, born May 12, 1813, died 1890.

New York Times 3 Jun 1890
Obituary of Alvin Higgins,
(05/12/1813-03/01/1890
son of Amos Higgins

 
-7 -   Elias Smith, born March 29, 1815, became a very successful manufacturer in New York City.  
-8 -   Eleazer, born May 2, 1817. Died January 3, 1855.
-9 -   Ellen, born April 14, 1820. 
-10-  Nathaniel, born December,18,1825. Died January 10,1882.
           Source: New York Times 12 Jan 1882 Nathaniel Higgins Obituary Born 1825
                                              - Died 1882 Buried Woodlawn Cemetery NY 
            

(7)  Amos, son of Eleazer and Susanna (Dyer) Higgins, born April 22, 1797, died in Charleston, Maine, 1870. He was a very faithful student in the common schools, and early in life saw that there were fine openings in the new towns of his native state. With the same pioneer spirit which has caused many of his family name to make grand successes in life by removals into new conditions, he went to Garland, Maine, bought wild land, built a log cabin, began the work to which was devoted his entire life, farming. In 1884 he changed this farm for one in Charleston and there he lived the remainder of his days. In politics he was a sturdy Republican, and ever took a deep interest in all national affairs. He was a very faithful member of the Free Baptist Church, and was never absent from church services unless detained by some serious illness. He married Sarah Hamilton, born at Yarmouth, died at Charleston.

      HIGGINS AMOS 62    M W ME ME PENOBSCOT CHARLESTON 1860
 HIGGINS AMOS D 33 M W ME ME PENOBSCOT CHARLESTON 1860

Sarah Jane, married Hazen Tilton, of Charleston;
   four children Fred, Helen, Benjamin and Ann Tilton. 

 -2-  Ann H., married E.B. Page, of Charleston,
       children: Melissa, Peter and Jenny Page. 
 -3- Amos, married Flora Wilbur;
      children: ~1~ Alvin, Superintendent of Hartford Carpet Works at Thompsonville,T,
                                     married Mary Stewart of New York, and
                                                 has two children, Flora and Grace Higgins;
                   ~2~ Edward.
 -4-  Alvin, married Nellie Clapp, of Charleston; he is a retired salesman and resides in New York
 -5-  Smith, married (first) Mattie Hitchborn;
                  children: Addie, Henry, Minnie, Frank, Sallie, John and George; Smith
                  married (second) Louise Lougee, and
                                  has a son, Ralph. Smith Higgins is a farmer of Charleston.
-6- Charlotte Ellen, born in Garland, 1839,
                               was graduated from Rutgers Female Institute, New York City,
                               where she taught for several years;
                              married (first) in 1866 E.D. Sargent, M.D. of Washington, VT, now deceased
                                                   children: Mabel E. (Sargent), deceased.
                             married (second) in 1878, the Rev. H.R. Howes, of China, Maine,
                                         two children: i) Stella A. (Howes), born in East Burke, VT,
                                                            July 8,1879, graduate from Higgins Institute, Charleston
                                                                                   & Bridgewater Normal in Massachusetts
                                                                              teacher in Newton Center, Massachusetts;
                                                            ii) J. Herbert (Howes), born in South Woodbury, VT
                                                                                                December 5, 1880,
                                                                married in 1906, Edith M. Hatte of Machias, Maine,
                                                               they with the Rev. &Mrs. Howes reside in Charleston. 
   -7- John H (see Below).
   -8- George, was superintendent of Higgins Carpet Works, New York City, enlisted in the Union Army, was wounded and honorably discharged from the service in consequence of his injuries; he married Maria Terry, children Olney, Arthur and a daughter Lulu, deceased. George died in New York City.
   -9- Charles, died unmarried at age twenty-four, unmarried. Three other children, daughters, not mentioned.

John H., fourth son and seventh child of Amos and Sarah (Hamilton) Higgins, was born in Charleston, May 28, 1841, at the age of sixteen he concluded his attendance at the old Charleston Academy, and going to New York, entered the employ of E.S. Higgins & Company, a well known carpet manufacturing concern, of which his uncle Elias S. Higgins, was the senior partner. Having diligently applied himself applied himself to the task of mastering every detail of the business during the first five years of his connection with it, he was advanced to the position of manager and retained that responsible position for a period of twenty years, directing its affairs with marked ability and advancing still further the high reputation enjoyed by the firm. Severing his connection with that concern about the year 1882, he engaged in religious work as an evangelist, and subsequently returning to Charleston, he devoted a number of years to evangelistic and pastoral in small communities, which were unable to support a settled minister. In 1891, he purchased the farm adjoining his homestead in Charleston, and removing the old buildings, proceeded in erecting what is now known as The Higgins Classical Institute, a regularly incorporated institute of the State of Maine, for the promotion of Christian education and instruction of youth in languages, arts and sciences. The building was completed and dedicated in 1901 and opened as a preparatory school for Colby College. This institution, which has a force of five regular instructors, and a capacity for two hundred and fifty students, comprises a main building and a dormitory erected at an approximate cost of one hundred thousand dollars, with grounds comprising twenty acres, and it is thoroughly equipped for its intended purpose, having every facility necessary for the carrying out of the advanced educational methods. The highest standard of scholarship is maintained, and being an endowed institution, the expense to students is confined to actual cost of board and other dormitory costs. There are the courses of study, the college preparatory and classical, the English, and the teacher’s training or normal. The school provides also a well-defined course in music and harmony. Mr. Higgins is President of the board of trustees, chairman of the executive committee and of instruction and instructors. The efficient principal of Higgins Classical Institute is Linwood L. Workman, A.B.. In adding the Higgins Classical Institute to the list of Maine’s preparatory schools its titular founder has displayed a spirit of wisdom and generosity, the benefits of which cannot be too highly estimated. In 1906 Mr. Higgins relinquished active ministerial work, and is now living in retirement at his home in Charleston. He is a member of the Baptist church, and a prohibitionist in politics. His labors in the interest in religion and education have left an indelible upon the lives of the men and women of his native state, while in his own hometown he is universally loved and esteemed.

(III)  - Benjamin Higgins (2) , youngest child of Benjamin (1),  and Lydia (Bangs) Higgins,
             born at Eastham, Massachusetts, September 15, 1681.
             He married May 22, 1701, Sarah (Freeman),
                                                  daughter of Lieutenant Edmund and Sarah (Mayo) Freeman.
                She was a descendant of Thomas Prince, who came on “The Prince”, 1621,
                 became Governor of the Plymouth Colony, and married Patience,
                                                                                    daughter of Elder William Brewster.

          Benjamin and Sarah Higgins had fourteen children:
                  Priscilla, born November 17, 1702;  Thomas, June 24, 1704;
                  Sarah, July 13, 1706;                      Paul, June 25, 1708;
                  Reliance, May 13, 1710;                  Elizabeth, April 1, 1712;
                  Experience, January 31, 1714;         Benjamin, March 1, 1716;
                  Thankful, October 28, 1717;            Zaccheus, August 15, 1719;
                  Solomon, September 8, 1822;         Lois, August 6,1723;
                  Isaac, July 12, 1725;                      Freeman, (see next).
 

- Freeman, youngest child of Benjamin and Sarah (Freeman) Higgins, was born at Eastham, July 28, 1727.  
  He married November 14, 1747, Martha, daughter of  Timothy and Martha Cole.
                    She descended from Daniel Cole, who was in Plymouth about 1633.
                    He was Constable, Selectman, and Town Clerk.
      Freeman's children by his first marriage were: Timothy and Apphia.
     Freeman married (second) Thankful (Hopkins) Paine, July 14, 1757. 
         The children were: Twins, born April 9, 1758;
                                   Martha, died young, and
                                   Thankful, married, November 12, 1783, Thomas Stoddard Boardman;
                                   Zedediah, April 11,1760;
                                   Priscilla, born March 1, 1762;
                                   Mary, August 9, 1764;
                           &      Elisha, November 9, 1766.br>

Elisha, youngest son of Freeman and Thankful (Hopkins)(Paine) Higgins, was born in Westbrook, Cumberland County, Maine, November 9, 1766. He married Lucy Stevens, of Westbrook, a descendant of Captain Isaac Stevens, who kept the first hotel on Steven’s Plains, and this celebrated hostelry was kept successively by his descendants, Zachariah B. Stevens, ESQ.,  Selectman of the town 1824-1827,  and his son, Samuel B. Stevens. The Stevens name is among the most honored in the town of Westbrook. Elisha Higgins was a carpenter and builder and a useful citizen of the town.

Charles, son of Elisha and Lucy (Stevens) Higgins, was born in Westbrook, Cumberland County, Maine, in 1809. He was brought up to the trade of Tinsmith, a business complimenting that of his father, and his proclivity, inherited and cultivated, was to affiliate with the Whig Party, which party, received his fullest support up to its dissolution in 1852, when he joined the Free Soil Party, which in 1856 merged into the Republican Party led by Fremont, and so thoroughly crystallized and tempered by Lincoln. He married Catherine Mitchell,  born in Westbrook, Maine, 1812, and they removed to Bath, Maine, where Charles Higgins carried on his trade of tinsmith and removed after the birth of their son Algernon Sidney, to Turner Village, and thence to Auburn and soon after across the river to Lewiston.

Algernon Sidney, son of Charles and Catherine (Mitchell) Higgins, was born in Bath, Maine, March 6, 1834. He was educated in the primary schools of Turner Village and Lewiston and afterwards was graduated at the Lewiston Falls Academy. Mr. Higgins has been in educational affairs his entire life. He began teaching in Lewiston at an early age. In 1854 he was called to Huntington, Long Island, New York, to take charge of the village school. Largely through his efforts the village districts were consolidated, and a union school, centrally located, was erected. This school promptly became the leading in that section. It was conducted in the New England spirit, and many of the methods of instruction introduced survive to this day. This school embraced pupils of all ages, from the primary to the high school, and its graduates who attended college at that time took a high rank. Mr. Higgins has always had original ideas in education. It was in this school that he organized a juvenile agricultural society, out of its pupils. It was modeled after the county fair. Every fall the pupils exhibited their product of work in the field, shops and home. These annual fairs attracted wide attention. Each year the scope and interest extended, and the village on Fair Day wore a holiday appearance. Mr. Higgins believes that if he had remained and carried out this idea to its legitimate conclusion, the subject of manual training, now so prominent in the educational world would have been early practically and economically solved. In the fall of 1864 Mr. Higgins took charge of the grammar school on Mountjoy Hill, Portland, Maine. Here he remained only one year. Then he was selected to organize public school # 29, Brooklyn, New York. This then was the latest addition to the Brooklyn Schools. He remained at # 29 for eight years, when the principalship of a larger school becoming vacant, the authorities thought his success merited a transfer to public school # 9. He remained principal twelve years. He introduced several improvements in subjects or methods of instruction which so commended themselves to the educational authorities that they now form part of the course of all schools in the city of New York. Influenced by both money and friendship, at the end of  twelve years in public school # 9, Mr. Higgins resigned and became advertising manager of a large Broadway firm in New York. Here he remained for twelve years. He did not, in the least, lose his interest in the schools, nor after a few years with these, for the Hon. David A. Boody, an honored son of Maine, then Mayor of Brooklyn, appointed him a member of the school board. He served as such for nearly eight years. He was largely instrumental in securing the passage by this board and subsequently by the legislature of the teacher’s retirement act under whose provisions teachers may be retired on half salary after a fixed period of acceptable service. A change in the affairs of the firm with which he was connected determined him to return wholly to the schools. When this was known, the school board promptly elected him assistant superintendent of schools for the City of Brooklyn. This was in 1898. In this capacity he served until 1892. In that year an amended act of consolidation brought the adjoining cities into closer relations with New York. Their boards of education were abolished and the school system was administered by a board of forty-six members, made up of a fixed number from New York and each of the neighboring cities. Under this board and dealing more directly with the intellectual part of the school, was a board of superintendents, composed of the city superintendent of schools and eight associate superintendents. To this board Mr. Higgins was unanimously elected. Here he served until the spring of 1906, when, on his application, though still in good health, he was placed on the list of retired superintendents.  Mr. Higgins was one of the organizers of the Maine State Association of Teachers. He has been a member of the national, state, county, city and town Teacher’s associations all through his active school life, believing strongly in the organizations and associations of those engaged in the same profession. Mr. Higgins married August 1, 1857, Sara Maria Conklin, daughter of Ezra and Jane A. (Brown) Conklin, of Huntington, Long Island; she died in 1897; she was a descendant of the Conklins who came from England and were among the very earliest settlers of Long Island. Captain John Conklin came from Nottingham, England, to Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, about 1636, and in 1655 removed to Southold, Long Island. Before he came to America, he was a manufacturer of glass in Nottinghamshire, carried on that business in Salem, Massachusetts, in connection with his sons, who had emigrated with him, and they were the first glass manufacturers in America, and recorded in early land grants as “Glassman”.

Source: New York City, Public School Teacher Retirement List
Given Name: Algernon S. Surname: Higgins
Birth Date: Mch 6, 1834 Death Date: October 14, 1913

Obituary for Algernon S Higgins

     New York Times 15 Oct 1913

Census Scan HIGGINS ALGERNON SP 40 M W NY NY KINGS 23-WD BROOKLYN BORO 1900
Name                    Age
Algerine S J Higgins 39
Mary J Higgins         39
Harold P Higgins      14
Maory Higgins         19

Census Scan  HIGGINS ALGERNON L 66 M W ME NY KINGS 9-WD BROOKLYN BORO 1900

The Children of Algernon Sidney and Sarah Maria (Conklin) Higgins were: Algernon Sidney Jr., and Myra Burgess Higgins. Algernon Sidney Higgins Jr., is practicing Physician at 11 Kingston Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y.. He married M. Ida Preston; children: Edith, died young; Harold Preston and Marjorie Higgins. Myra Burgess Higgins married Frederick H. Baldwin, and resides at 150 Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn N.Y.. To them were born two children: Frederick Rhey and Olive Natalie Baldwin. Mr Higgins makes his home with his daughter. He was made a mason of Jeptha Lodge, at Huntington, Long Island, in 1864. After removing to Brooklyn he affiliated with the Mistletoe Lodge # 647, of which he is still a member. When he had been a mason for twenty-one years he was eligible to the Masonic Veterans. This body he promptly joined and is member to this date. Mr. Higgins is charter member of the Montauk Club, of Brooklyn, and with the exception of about a year has been its secretary since its organization in 1889. In that year was organized the Berkeley School for Girls, a large and flourishing school near Prospect Park in Brooklyn. The Honorable David A. Boody, has been its President and Mr. Higgins its secretary since its organization. Thus has Mr. Higgins, like thousands of the sons of Maine, done and is still doing.

 

HIGGINS  (IV) – Benjamin (3) was the son of Benjamin (2) Higgins.

                    He had Eleazer, Theophilus, Jedediah and Reuben.   
                           

 

HIGGINS (V) – Eleazer  was the son of Benjamin (3) Higgins. The name of his wife was Sarah. 

 

HIGGINS (VI) - Eleazer (2) was the son of Eleazor (1) and Sarah Higgins.

Children: Eleanor, Joseph, Enoch, Jedediah, Richard, Sarah and Hannah.

HIGGINS (VII)- Jedediah, fourth son of Eleazer and Sarah Higgins, was born in 1733, lived in Truro, Massachusetts, and was head of that branch of the family. He married Phoebe, daughter of Azubah Paine. Children: Jedediah, Mary, Joseph, Hannah, and several others.

Webmaster Additions:
Source: History of Cumberland Co., Maine : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers. Published 1880

-REUBEN HIGGINS-

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Reuben Higgins, son of Michael Higgins, was born in the town of Cape Elizabeth, February 11, 1811. His grandfather, Reuben Higgins, came to Cumberland County from Cape Cod, and met an untimely death by being drowned by capturing sea cows. Mr. Higgins received a common-school education during his boyhood. At age 17 he embarked on a coasting vessel, and remained in the service for three years. He went to Bangor, Maine, where he learned blacksmithing and the edge-tool trade, and was engaged in this business until 1830, when he sold out to his brother, Arthur, and returned to Cape Elizabeth, where he remained one year, and for the next three years was engaged in the grocery trade in Portland. In 1839 he married Calista L. Smith, of New Market, N.H.. He removed to Androscoggin County, and remained three years, during which time his father died, and he, purchasing the interest of the other heirs of the estate, settled on the old homestead in Cape Elizabeth. He had been honored with various offices of trust in his town. In 1843 he was elected selectman and overseer of the poor, and held these offices for six years. In 1849 he was elected a member of the legislature on the Democratic ticket, and held the office for one term. Following 1851, for eight years he was clerk on a steamer plying between Portland and Boston. In 1861 he was elected County Commissioner, and remained in that office for three years, and the same year was again elected to the legislature, and served one year. For several years he has acted as Justice of the Peace in the town, and continues to discharge the duties of that office to the satisfaction of his fellow towns-men and with honor to himself. Mr. Higgins is a member of the Free Will Baptist Church and supporter of churches and kindred interests. He is a man of acknowledged integrity and correct habits.

HIGGINS REUBEN 50 M W ME ME CUMBERLAND CAPE ELIZABETH 1860
 
HIGGINS RUBEN 59 M W ME ME CUMBERLAND CAPE ELIZABETH 1870

Household:1880
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age
Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
 
Reuben HIGGINS Self M Male W 69 ME Farmer ME ME
Solista HIGGINS Wife M Female W 66 ME Keeps House ME ME
Source Information:
Census Place E.D.26-27,Cape Elizabeth,Cumberland, Maine Family History Library Film 1254477
NA Film Number T9-0477 Page Number 150A

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Elias Higgins

HIGGINS E S 35* M W ME NY NEW YORK 18-WD NEW YORK CITY 1860
                       * possible age error

HIGGINS ELIAS S 54 M W ME NY NEW YORK 18-WD 2-E D 1870

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Arthur Terry Higgins
Obituary for Arthur Terry Higgins son of George and Maria Higgins, nephew of Elias
New York Times 20 Oct 1897