Background
Higgs, J. Jeffrey was born on November 23, 1919 in Jersey City. Son of Joseph J. and Margaret S. (Edmonds) Higgs.
physician and medical director
Higgs, J. Jeffrey was born on November 23, 1919 in Jersey City. Son of Joseph J. and Margaret S. (Edmonds) Higgs.
Bachelor, Lincoln (Pennsylvania) University, 1939. Doctor of Medicine, Howard University, 1943.
Rotating intern, Harlem Hospital, New York City, 1943-1944; resident in internal medicine, Provident Hospital, Baltimore, 1944-1945; staff physician, Tewksbury (Massachusetts) Eastern State Hospital, 1945-1946; municipal physician, St. Croix, Christiansted, Virgin Islands, 1946-1948; attending family practice physician, Huntington (New York) Hospital, 1948-1968; emergency physician, Huntington (New York) Hospital, 1968-1975; staff physician, Union Carbide Corporation, Texas City, Texas, 1978-1984; medical director, Union Carbide Corporation, Texas City, Texas, 1984-1990. Counselor New York State chapter American College Emergency Physicians, 1960s and 70s. Board directors Alcoholism Referral project University Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, 1986.
Past president local chapter National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Huntington, 1950s. Chairman Huntington Housing Authority, 1960s. Board directors Suffolk County branch American Red Cross, 1960s, other civic activities.
Fellow American College Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Member Galveston County Medical Society (life).
Son of (Edmonds) H.; married Julia Bertha Smith, April 9, 1944 (divorced 1977). Children: Gregory David, Maggie Higgs Blackburn. Married Geraldine Agnes Sherman, December 28, 1978.