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Dr. Higley married five times and fathered several children. [6] [8] His first three marriages are reported to have ended tragically when his wives succumbed to injury or disease, but there is some dispute whether this was the case with his second wife.
Dr. Brewster M. Higley, late 19th century. In 1871, Higley moved from Indiana and acquired land in Smith County, Kansas under the Homestead Act, living in a small cabin near West Beaver Creek. [12]
Dr. Brewster M. Higley VI, originally of Rutland, Ohio, was an otolaryngologist who moved from Indiana to Smith County in 1871 under the Homestead Act. at first Higley lived in a one-room dugout on his homestead 14 miles northwest of Smith Center, where he soon became a county officer.
Higley, who had "an addiction to liquor" (according to Mechem), lost three wives and some children to illness and injuries in Indiana before abandoning his fourth wife there and heading to Kansas...
The original site where the song "Home on the Range" was written. Dr. Brewster M Higley wrote a poem titled “My Western Home” to describe the beauty of the site he had chosen for his Kansas Homestead in 1871. He penned this now-famous work on the bank of the West Beaver Creek in Smith County, Kansas, where along with the help of a few ...
Sep 29, 2020 · Dr. Brewster M. Higley had some troubles when he homesteaded in north central Kansas in 1872. There was “a little problem with the bottle,” and he’d already gone through four wives. But he had no trouble voicing the nirvana he found on his farm along West Beaver Creek in Smith County.
Jan 29, 2023 · In the early 1870s, Dr. Brewster M. Higley traveled to Kansas under the Homestead Act of 1862. He was an ear, nose, and throat doctor from Iowa, and he settled in Smith County. He was so taken by the beauty in the landscape of his new Kansas home that he penned a poem he titled “My Home in the West.”.
