Frank Wayland Higgins was an American politician who served as the 35th Governor of New York.
Higgins was born in Rushford, New York on August 18, 1856, the son of Orrin Thrall and Lucia Cornelia Higgins. Given the first name Francis at birth, he called himself Frank from an early age. Higgins father was a successful merchant who owned a chain of grocery stores in Olean, New York and held mining and timber tracts in Michigan, Wisconsin, Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota. Frank Higgins attended Rushford Academy and then Riverview Academy, a military school in Peekskill, New York, from which he graduated in 1873. He then attended a commercial college in Binghamton, New York.
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