CLASS OF 1868

Milton Prince Higgins, pioneer founder of the trade school in the United States, died in the night of March 8 at his home in Worcester, Mass., of pneumonia. At the time of his death he. was president of the Norton Grinding Company of Worcester, with branches in Germany, the largest manufacturers of emery stones in the world. He was also president of the Manchester (N. H.) Supply Company and the Sanford Riley Stoker Company of Providence, R. I. He was a director of the Mechanics' National Bank of Worcester and the Pike Manufacturing Company of Pike, N. H., and had other business interests.

Mr. Higgins was born at Standish, Maine, December 7,. 1842. He left his native town at the age of seventeen, and, going to Manchester, N. H., served as an apprentice in a machine shop until he had fully mastered the trade. He then entered the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth, and upon graduation entered the shops of the Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company at Worcester as draftsman and assistant mechanic. In the following January he became superintendent of the Washburn shops, which became a part of the equipment of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and remained there for many years. Soon afterwards he organized the Norton Emery Wheel Company, the parent organization of the present company. In 1887 he organized'a workshop for the Georgia School of Technology, and later organized a similar department in the Miller Memorial Labor School in Virginia. He had long been a member of the board of trustees of the Worcester Institute. In 1870, Mr. Higgins was married to Katherine Elizabeth Chapin, who survives him, with two sons and two daughters.

Secretary, Prof. Charles F. Emerson, Hanover, N. H.