About Charles M. Higgins
Lived 1854 – 1929 (aged 75). Charles M. Higgins was an anti-vaccine activist and entrepreneur.
Charles Michael Higgins (October 4, 1854 – October 21, 1929) was an Irish-American ink manufacturer and anti-vaccinationist.
Biography
Higgins was born in County Leitrim, Ireland.
Anti-Vaccination League of America
Higgins was the co-founder and treasurer of the Anti-Vaccination League of America. The League was created in 1908 by Higgins and industrialist John Pitcairn. Its anti-vaccination campaigns focused on New York and Pennsylvania. Higgins was the League's chief spokesman and pamphleteer. Historian James Colgrove noted that Higgins "attempted to overturn the New York State's law mandating vaccination of students in public schools." The League dissolved after the death of Higgins in 1929.
Selected publications A Plea for Justice to China (1900) The Crime Against the School Child (1915) Brooklyn and Gowanus in History (1916) Vaccination and Lockjaw (1916) Unalienable Rights and Prohibition Wrongs (1919) Horrors of Vaccination Exposed and Illustrated (1920)
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Who was Charles M. Higgins?
American ink manufacturer (1854–1929)
When was Charles M. Higgins born?
Charles M. Higgins was born on 4 October 1854 in County Leitrim.
When did Charles M. Higgins die?
Charles M. Higgins died on 21 October 1929 in Prospect Park (Brooklyn).
What was Charles M. Higgins's occupation?
Charles M. Higgins was an anti-vaccine activist and entrepreneur.
Sources & further reading
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