| Show seventy years of honor thomas thomaa wentworth higginson Higgin soD t the writer aud patriot W was waa iwa in tho the shadow of harvard college 0 of which his father was steward dec 22 1323 he graan abed from the alie col loge in aarl from the divinity raool si ax years lat liter he was or for tile the service of tho the 7 N I 1 new cwb bury port t tj ZW Z W ciurca ci d after leaving there ow f ing to his hie abolition sentiments accepted the past w N borate of a free church in worcester where lie remained from 1852 16 d to 1858 when ho he left tho the ministry and devoted himself to literature he was a personal friend of john brown and after lie went to the front in 1863 was made colonel of the first regiment of treed freed slaves mustered into tho the federal service |
