Career
Higgins was born in Wismar, which was part of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in Germany. In Germany, after she completed her education, she became a "Frau Professor. Anton was a Theosophist and Marie Higgins eventually founded the Blavatsky Theosophist Lodge.
Higgins founded the Musaeus Girls" School, first in a small mud hut, but eventually replacing the hut with a brick building in 1895.