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Note: 818 George Washington Higgins, son of Moses Higgins, and brother of William H. H. Higgins, was born at Henrietta, Lorain County, Ohio, October 8 1843. He received his early education in the public schools of his native town, and when a young man learned the trade of carpenter. He located at Springfield, Vermont, and had charge of a chair factory for one year. After the civil war he bought a plantation in Tennessee. Subsequently he went to Omaha, where he worked for the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and for three years his home was at Rawling Springs, Wyoming Territory, where he had charge of the car shops of the Union Pacific Railroad under Superintendent Stevens. Thence he went to California to the Red Wood region. He lived for a time in Lower California and in Old Mexico and then to Colorado, where he was in business as a dealer in meats and provisions at Denver. For a short time he conducted a packing house at Las Animas county, Colorado. In 1875 he settled as a rancher in Kansas and remained there for seventeen years. For the past twelve years he has made his home in Rocky Ford, Colorado, and for several years was a proprietor of a livery stable in that town. He erected a stable, fifty by one hundred and sixty feet, of pressed brick, said to have been the finest livery stable west of the Mississippi River. Recently he sold his horses and turned the stable into a garage for automobiles. In politics Mr. Higgins is a Republican and he has taken a keen interest in public affairs in Colorado. For ten years he has served as a judge of elections in Rocky Ford. He is a member of St. John's Lodge, No. 75, of Rocky Ford; of the local chapter, Royal Arch Masons; of Elder's Lodge, No. 11, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Las Animas, Colorado.
Note: New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Third Series, Volume IV, page 1
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