Complex sentence: George W. Higgins, a minister of the Holy Ghost and Us Society, was probably the last person in New England to be subjected to the traditional mob-led humiliations of tarring and feathering and riding the rail.
Split into simpler sentences: George W. Higgins was an American minister of the Holy Ghost and Us Society. He was possibly the last person in New England to be subjected to the traditional mob-led humiliations of tarring and feathering and riding the rail.