IIIGGINSON, THOMAS WENTWORTH, b. Mass., 1823; a descendant of Francis flig ginson, graduated at Harvard college in 1841. and at the divinity school in Cambridge in 1847; after which he became the minister of the " First religious society" in Newbury port. His antislavery principles offended a part of his congregation, causing him to resign in 1850. Two years later he became minister of a " free church" in Worcester. He was the leader of the men who in 1853 attempted to effect the rescue of Anthony Burns, a fugitive slave confined in the court-house in Boston. in custody of the U. S. marshal. The attempt was unsuccessful, and he was wounded in the face by a saber cut. One of the marshal's men having been killed in the fray, Mr.`iligginson was indicted for murder, but not convicted. In 1856 he went to Kansas and took an active part in the 'measures by which that state was prevented from becoming an abode of slavery.. He now relinquished the ministry to devote himself to literature, hut on the breaking out of the war of the rebellion he exerted himself to prociird enlistments, and entered the service with the rank of capt. In 1862 he was appointed col. of the first
regiment of South Carolina volunteers, the first regiment of emancipated slaves that entered the service. He led this regiment for two years, making rations expeditions within the confederate lines, and capturing Jacksonville, Fla. In Aug., Ki63, he was wounded, and in 1864 was compelled on that account to retire from the service, lle then took up his residence at Newport, R. -I., and resumed the literary labors which had been interrupted by the war. Since that time he has published Outdoor Papers; Harvard Memorial Biographies; Afalhone, an Oldport Romance; Army Life in a Black, Regiment; Atlantic Essays; Oldport Days; and a new translation of Epi•tetus. In 1818 be removed to Cambridge, Mass., where he still resides. He represented that city in the general court in 1880. He has been for many years a very earliest advocate of woman suffrage.