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Higginson

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Hig·gin·son  (hgn-sn), Thomas Wentworth Storrow 1823-1911.
American writer and soldier who led the first Black regiment in the Union Army (1862-1864). He wrote many biographies, including volumes on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier (both 1902), and edited the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
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Noun1.HigginsonHigginson - United States writer and soldier who led the first Black regiment in the Union Army (1823-1911)
Thomas Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Storrow Higginson


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Now, unless the sandbank had been submitted to the intermittent eruption of a geyser, the Governor Higginson had to do neither more nor less than with an aquatic mammal, unknown till then, which threw up from its blow-holes columns of water mixed with air and vapour.
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Higginson enumerates, among the many felicities of his distinguished parishioner's earthly career, the happy seasonableness of his death.
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Higginson, the minister of Salem, held long religious talks together.
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