The Minneapolis Journal Obituaries, 1900
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota

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1900 Obituaries from The Minneapolis Journal, in Minneapolis, Hennepin County Minnesota.

HIGLEY, Major M. A., Obituary

Major M. A. Higley Dead
War Veteran and Representative Citizen of Iowa
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Oct. 31 Major M. A. Higley, a prominent resident, died yesterday. He had been a resident of the city since 1842. For the civil war he raised forty men, took them to Lyons and received a commission as first lieutenant of the Fifteenth Iowa volunteer infantry. He served throughout the civil war and participated in the battle of Shiloh and the siege and battle of Corinth.

After the war he returned to this city and engaged in the hardware business until 1885, when he was elected president of the Merchants National bank. He took much in educational matters and for twenty-one was a member of the school board. For the past two years he has been a regent of the state university at Iowa City and was chairman of the building committee.

He leaves three daughters, Mrs. Malsch of Minneapolis, Mrs. McIntosh of Seattle, and Mrs. Draper of Boston, who survives him. Public funeral services will be held at the residence Thursday at 4 p.m. [Minneapolis Journal, (Minneapolis, MN), October 31, 1900]