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Colonel Higginson purchased and hung in his Cambridge home.
It had been painted white, but the removal of the paint brought to light the name ‘Stephen Higginson, Jr.,’ and near the top of the bucket the phrase, ‘In suis non fallitur.
1841.’
The house which the college built for Stephen Higginson on Kirkland Street, Cambridge, then called ‘Professors' Row,’ still stands; and here, on one of the shortest days of the year, Thomas Wentworth Storrow Higginson began his eventful life.
To use his own words, ‘I was born on the 22nd of December, 1823, and had my proud birthright wrested from me when the change of dates landed the Pilgrims on December 23.’
Books for libraries press. Freeport, New York. 1914.
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