Randolph Higgy

Who is Randolph Higgy? His name shows up on a Grove City & Green Lawn Street Railway pass signed by A. G. Grant, owner of the electric street car line that ran from Grove City to Greenlawn Cemetery where passengers could transfer to another line into Columbus. Higgy was a friend of William Foster Breck, founder of Grove City in 1852, who moved here from Fairfield County. He first purchased Breck’s sawmill when Breck decided to open a mercantile; then Higgy purchased Breck’s store around 1855 renaming it Higgy’s Store. After Breck’s death in 1865, Higgy succeeded Breck as the Grove City postmaster. By 1866 when Grove City incorporated as a village, Dr. Joseph Bullen was elected mayor and Higgy became village clerk. He is also mentioned as one of the town’s first marshals. In 1887, for an unknown reason, Grove City’s mayor and every member of the village council abruptly resigned and Higgy became mayor. Higgy married Catherine Grant, a daughter of Hugh Grant Jr.