Anna Higgins Kissinger (née Stoddard) was born in Sandy Plains, New York, in
1873. She came to Milwaukee in 1899 and was the founder and first president of the
West Side Mother’s Club, which later became the Milwaukee Mother’s Club. She also
headed the Wisconsin Outlook Club of the National Shut-In Society. Her first husband
was Edward Higgins, who owned and operated the book department in Boston Store. She
later married Dr. Chester Arthur Kissinger. She died at age 91 in 1964.
