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See also:HIGGINSON, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:WENTWORTH (1823—1911) , See also:American author and soldier, was See also:born in See also:Cambridge, See also:Massachusetts, on the 22nd of See also:December 1823. He was a descendant of See also:Francis Higginson (1588—163o), who emigrated from See also:Leicestershire to the See also:colony of Massachusetts See also:Bay and was a See also:minister of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of See also:Salem, See also:Mass., in 1629—163o; and a See also:grandson of See also:Stephen Higginson (1943—1828), a See also:Boston See also:merchant, who was a member of the See also:Continental See also:Congress in 1783, took an active See also:part in sup-pressing Shay's See also:Rebellion, was the author of the " Laco " letters (1789), and rendered valuable services to the See also:United States See also:government as See also:navy See also:agent from the 11th of May to the 22nd of See also:June 1798. Graduating from Harvard in 1841, he was a school-See also:master for two years, studied See also:theology at the Harvard Divinity School, and was pastor in 1847—185o of the First Religious Society (Unitarian) of See also:Newburyport, Massachusetts, and of the See also:Free Church at See also:Worcester in 1852—1858. He was a Free See also:Soil See also:candidate for Congress (185o), but was defeated; was indicted with Wendell See also:Phillips and See also:Theodore See also:Parker for participation in the See also:attempt to See also:release the fugitive slave, See also:Anthony See also:Burns, in Boston (18J3); was engaged in the effort to make See also:Kansas a free See also:state after the passage of the Kansas-See also:Nebraska See also:Bill of 1854; and during the See also:Civil See also:War was See also:captain in the 51st Massachusetts See also:Volunteers, and from See also:November 1862 to See also:October 1864, when he was retired because of a See also:wound received in the preceding See also:August, was See also:colonel of the First See also:South Carolina Volunteers, the first See also:regiment recruited from former slaves for the Federal service. He de-scribed his experiences inArmy See also:Life in a See also:Black Regiment (1870). In politics Higginson was successively a Republican, an See also:Independent and a Democrat. His writings show a deep love of nature, See also:art and humanity, and are marked by vigour of thought, sincerity of feeling, and See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace and finish of See also:style. In his See also:Common Sense About See also:Women (1881) and his Women and Men (1888) he advocated equality of opportunity and equality of rights for the two sexes.
Among his numerous books are Outdoor Papers (1863) ; Mal See also:bone: an Oldport See also:Romance (1869) ; Life of See also:Margaret See also:Fuller Ossoli (in " American Men of Letters " See also:series, 1884) ; A Larger See also:History of the United States of See also:America to the See also:Close of See also:President See also:Jackson's Ad-ministration (188,5); The Monarch of Dreams (1886); Travellers and Outlaws (1889); The Afternoon Landscape (1889), poems and See also:translations; Life of Francis Higginson (in " Makers of America," 1891) ; Concerning All of Us (1892) ; The Procession of the See also:Flowers and Kindred Papers 897); See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Wadsworth See also:Longfellow (in " American Men of Letters " series, 1902); See also:John See also:Greenleaf See also:Whittier (in " See also:English Men of Letters " series, 1902) ; A Reader's History of American Literature (1903), the See also:Lowell See also:Institute lectures for 1903, edited by Henry W. Boynton; and Life and Times of Stephen Higginson (1907). His volumes of See also:reminiscence, Cheerful Yesterdays (1898), Old Cambridge (1899), Contemporaries (1899), and Part of a See also:Man's Life (1905), are characteristic and charming See also:works. His collected works were published in seven vols. (1900).
End of Article: HIGGINSON, THOMAS WENTWORTH (1823—1911)
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