Son of Uriah Higgenbotham (1786-1853) & Elizabeth Chance. The 1860 census list a daughter, Flower (believed to be Florence), age 2 born KS . The 1865 Kansas State Census for Manhattan, Riley Co., KS, lists his wife, Cynthia (now widowed) with 3 female children: E. F. (Florence?) age 7; M. L. age 4; and Ura B. age 1 month.
A very lengthy obit can be found in the Manhattan Nationalist, Manhattan, KS, Tues., Nov. 22, 1864, pp. 2-3 (newspapers.com image 384018531). Excerpts shown below:
"Uriah Higinbotham was born in Green County Pa. on the 22nd day of May 1831...he commenced mercantile life as a clerk in the store of an older brother in Pendleton County, Virginia...At the age of nineteen he.For a year or two he spent much of his time in travel. In 1850 e visited the far west. Passing through the state of Missouri, he crossed the broad prairie swells of Kansas and the vast plains beyond to the mountains of New Mexico...He...pursued his mercantile business in Virginia till the year 1856 when he emmigrated to Kansas and located upon a claim near Ogden in Riley County...In 1857 he returned to Virginia, was married and then came back with his wife to the new home he had made the year before..."
A very lengthy obit can be found in the Manhattan Nationalist, Manhattan, KS, Tues., Nov. 22, 1864, pp. 2-3 (newspapers.com image 384018531). Excerpts shown below:
"Uriah Higinbotham was born in Green County Pa. on the 22nd day of May 1831...he commenced mercantile life as a clerk in the store of an older brother in Pendleton County, Virginia...At the age of nineteen he.For a year or two he spent much of his time in travel. In 1850 e visited the far west. Passing through the state of Missouri, he crossed the broad prairie swells of Kansas and the vast plains beyond to the mountains of New Mexico...He...pursued his mercantile business in Virginia till the year 1856 when he emmigrated to Kansas and located upon a claim near Ogden in Riley County...In 1857 he returned to Virginia, was married and then came back with his wife to the new home he had made the year before..."
Son of Uriah Higgenbotham (1786-1853) & Elizabeth Chance. The 1860 census list a daughter, Flower (believed to be Florence), age 2 born KS . The 1865 Kansas State Census for Manhattan, Riley Co., KS, lists his wife, Cynthia (now widowed) with 3 female children: E. F. (Florence?) age 7; M. L. age 4; and Ura B. age 1 month.
A very lengthy obit can be found in the Manhattan Nationalist, Manhattan, KS, Tues., Nov. 22, 1864, pp. 2-3 (newspapers.com image 384018531). Excerpts shown below:
"Uriah Higinbotham was born in Green County Pa. on the 22nd day of May 1831...he commenced mercantile life as a clerk in the store of an older brother in Pendleton County, Virginia...At the age of nineteen he.For a year or two he spent much of his time in travel. In 1850 e visited the far west. Passing through the state of Missouri, he crossed the broad prairie swells of Kansas and the vast plains beyond to the mountains of New Mexico...He...pursued his mercantile business in Virginia till the year 1856 when he emmigrated to Kansas and located upon a claim near Ogden in Riley County...In 1857 he returned to Virginia, was married and then came back with his wife to the new home he had made the year before..."
A very lengthy obit can be found in the Manhattan Nationalist, Manhattan, KS, Tues., Nov. 22, 1864, pp. 2-3 (newspapers.com image 384018531). Excerpts shown below:
"Uriah Higinbotham was born in Green County Pa. on the 22nd day of May 1831...he commenced mercantile life as a clerk in the store of an older brother in Pendleton County, Virginia...At the age of nineteen he.For a year or two he spent much of his time in travel. In 1850 e visited the far west. Passing through the state of Missouri, he crossed the broad prairie swells of Kansas and the vast plains beyond to the mountains of New Mexico...He...pursued his mercantile business in Virginia till the year 1856 when he emmigrated to Kansas and located upon a claim near Ogden in Riley County...In 1857 he returned to Virginia, was married and then came back with his wife to the new home he had made the year before..."
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