Posted on: Lee Co. Ia Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ia/LeeObits/120 Surname: HIGGINS, FANNING ------------------------- The Gate City Newspaper Saturday Morning March 29, 1902, Keokuk, Iowa GEORGE T. HIGGINS DIED LAST EVENING AT HIS HOME IN CHICAGO. He was a Prominent Citizen of Lee County in Early Days. SHERIFF AND CHIEF OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT HERE. He Was Connected with Many Early Business Enterprises and Was One of the Organizers of the Old Volunteer Fire Department, George T. HIGGINS died at his home in Chicago at 6:40 o'clock last evening. He was one of the most prominent of the old time citizens of Keokuk and Lee county. He came here from Cincinnati in 1853, having been born in Wheeling, Virginia, seventy-eight years ago. After his arrival he was extensively engaged in business in Keokuk in a number of lines of trade, including groceries, hardware, tinware and others. He was sheriff of Lee County from 1876 to 1880 and was well known to everybody in the county. AN ACTIVE MAN. He was the chief organizer of the old volunteer fire department of Keokuk and was the chief of that department for years. He left here in 1887 and moved to Chicago, where he has resided since. His son of the same name is the cashier of the Wabash railroad office here and left for Chicago yesterday afternoon, too late to arrive before the death of his father. Mr. HIGGINS is survived by his wife,Isabelle "Elizabeth FANNING HIGGINS three sons and three daughters. The sons are J.E. HIGGINS, also once sheriff here now of Chicago; John W. HIGGINS, who lives Chicago and is in the government work at Rock Island; and George T. HIGGINS, Jr. of this city. The daughters are Miss M. E. HIGGINS and Miss Rosa HIGGINS, of Chicago. George W. FANNING is a nephew of Mr. HIGGINS.