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Surname: Higman, Hart, Huff, Vaughn
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Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, pp.
719-720
Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1888
ISAAC N. HIGMAN, deceased, was a son of ROBERT and MARY (VAUGHN) HIGMAN,
his father being one of the old and honored pioneers of Tippecanoe County.
ROBERT HIGMAN was born in Sussex County, Delaware, where he was reared
to manhood. He was three times married, taking for his first wife MISS
MARY VAUGHN. In the spring of 1832 he started West with his family, then
consisting of his wife and their only son, ISAAC N., going as far as Ohio,
where he remained until the autumn of that year, when he resumed his journey
to Tippecanoe County, Indiana. He then settled on section 3, Fairfield
Township, on a tract of 160 acres entered by him from the Government, which
land is still in possession of the family. Here he made a good home, living
on the place until his death which occurred in April 1860. By his first
marriage h e had three children who reached maturityISAAC, our subject,
HESTER ANN and CHRISTENA, of whom only the latter is living at the present
time. MR. HIGMAN, Sr., though his advantages for obtaining an education
when young was limited, was a great reader, and a man of considerable intelligence,
and was respected by all who knew him. In his political views he was a
Democrat of the Jackson school.
ISAAC N., whose name heads this sketch, was a native of Delaware, born
January 6, 1832, being about six months old when his parents settled in
this county, where he was reared on his fathers frontier farm. He was
united in marriage September 24, 1857, to MISS ELEANOR HUFF, whose father,
EDMUND HUFF, was one of the prominent pioneers of this county. Eight children
were born to this union, of whom six are still livingROBERT E., PERRY,
FRANCIS N., CLARA E. (wife of JOSEPH HART), ANNA L., and LILLIAN M. Those
deceased areJOHN P., who died in his twentieth year, and an infant daughter.
MR. ISAAC HIGMAN died on the old homestead, where he spent the greater
part of his life, in February 1873.
Link: Davis-Higman Cemetery
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