Vincent Lafayette Higgins (1851-1941) was born near Burnsville, North Carolina. As a young man, he moved west, living in Arkansas, Missouri, Northern California, and the Willamette Valley in Oregon, eventually settling permanently at Union Flat near Pullman, Washington in 1884. There he established a diversified agriculture farm, which had wheat growing as its principal activity. Vincent married Emma Peed of Jasper, Missouri in 1889, and their daughter, Frankie Belle Higgins, was born in 1890. Both Vincent and Emma Higgins were active in Masonic organizations, and Vincent was a member of the International Order of Odd Fellows.
Vincent Lafayette Higgins' reminiscences, letters, forms, bills, and receipts related to the Freemasons Whitman Lodge, No. 49 in Pullman, Washington.
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Vincent Lafayette Higgins Papers, 1900-1920 (Cage 1983)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Vincent Lafayette Higgins Diaries, 1892-1936
Higgins and Rucker Family Papers, 1884-1994
Higgins Scrapbooks, circa 1890s-1950s (unprocessed collection: UPC 0004).
A biographic sketch of Vincent Lafayette Higgins is included in the James Emerson Lindsey Papers, 1926-1972
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