Harlow Niles Higinbotham A memoir with brief autobiography and extracts from speeches and letters

However, he was persuaded, and duly elected, made chairman of a finance committee, and soon succeeded to the presidency, which he held until his death. Within a few days he had...

One cannot tell the whole long story here, but a few characteristic incidents may be referred to. The electric light contest, for example, illustrates Mr. Higinbotham’s skill an...

Harlow Niles Higinbotham, represented, to a singular degree, the best citizenship of the second and third half-centuries of the Republic. Born on an Illinois farm October tenth,...

One of the workers of the world Living toiled, and toiling died; But others worked and the world went on, And was not changed when he was gone. A strong man stricken, a wide sai...