Henry Lee Higginson (1834-1919)
Lt.-Col. Henry L. Higginson, President of Lee, Higginson & Co., Bankers, Boston
He was born in New York City and entered (1851 but not graduate from Harvard. He entered the counting house of S. & E. Austin of Boston before leaving for Europe where he studied music in Vienna. On the outbreak of Civil War, he returned to the States and served as a Major and Brevet Lt.-Colonel with the Massachusetts Cavalry. He was severely wounded at Aldie, Vermont, in 1863. In 1868, he became President of Lee, Higginson & Co., Bankers and Brokers of Boston, and donated a considerable sum to establish the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He married Ida, daughter of Professor Louis Agassiz of Harvard, and they had two children, a daughter Cecile, who died in childhood and a son, the huntsman A. Henry Higginson.
