=Hicks, Elias.= _L. I._, 1748-1830. A famous Quaker controversialist, and founder of the sect known as Hicksite Quakers. He was an early and very active opponent of slavery. Observations on Slavery; Journal of Life and Religious Labours of Elias Hicks; Doctrinal Epistle. _See Letters of; History of the Friends, by S. Janney, infra._ =Higginson, Mrs. Ella [Rhoads].= _Kan._, 1862- ----. A druggist of New Whatcom, Washington, who has written much verse of a popular character, and The Flower that Grew in the Sand, and Other Stories. =Higginson, Francis.= _E._, 1588-1630. A Puritan clergyman of Salem who emigrated to America in 1629. True Relation of the Last Voyage to New England; New England’s Plantation. _See Life, by T. W. Higginson, infra; Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._ =Higginson, John.= _E._, 1616-1708. Son of F. Higginson, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman of Salem, from 1659 till his death in charge of the church founded by his father, and widely popular in New England. The Cause of God and His People in New England; Attestation to Cotton Mather’s Magnalia. _See Tyler’s American Literature._ =Higginson, Mrs. Mary Potter [Thacher].= _Me._, 1844- ----. Wife of T. W. Higginson, _infra_. Seashore and Prairie, stories and sketches. =Higginson, Mrs. Sarah Jane [Hatfield].= _Pa._, 1840- ----. A writer of New York city. A Princess of Java, a tale of the Far East; Java: the Pearl of the East; The Bedouin Girl. _Hou._ =Higginson, Stephen.= _Ms._, 1743-1828. A descendant of J. Higginson, _supra_. A merchant of Boston of note in his day as a political writer. Essays by Laco, reprinted as Ten Chapters in the Life of John Hancock; Defence of Jay’s Treaty. =Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.= _Ms._, 1823- ----. Grandson of S. Higginson, _supra_. An essayist and littérateur of Cambridge. In early life he was a Unitarian clergyman of a radical type, and prominent among anti-slavery thinkers. During the Civil War he commanded a regiment of freedmen. He has since been particularly active as an advocate of suffrage for women. His writings include, The Birthday in Fairy Land; Woman and her Wishes; Out-Door Papers; a translation of Epictetus; Malbone, a romance; Army Life in a Black Regiment; Atlantic Essays; Sympathy of Religions; Oldport Days; Young Folks’ History of the United States; Young Folks’ Book of American Explorers; Short Studies of American Authors; Common Sense about Women; Life of Margaret Fuller; Larger History of the United States; Travellers and Outlaws; Women and Men; The Afternoon Landscape, a collection of poems; Life of Francis Higginson; The New World and the New Book; Concerning All of Us; Such as They Are; The Monarch of Dreams; Hints on Writing and Speech-Making; Cheerful Yesterdays; English History for Americans (with E. Channing, _supra_); Book and Heart. _Do. Har. Hou. Le. Lgs._