John G. Higgins was a prominent Tennessee businessman. He is recognized as the inventor of the Eureka straightening comb. The life story of Higgins was written by his two granddaughters, Josephine Dorsey Wheeler and Evelyn Dorsey Polk. Higgins was nicknamed by family and friends 'Captain Jack.' He worked most of his life as a barber. […]
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