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Henry Lee Higginson (November 18, 1834 – November 14, 1919) was an American businessman best known as the founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a patron of Harvard University .
HENRY LEE HIGGINSON, who died in Boston on November 14, 1919, personified to an extraordinary degree a quality in American citizenship for which the need was never greater than at the present...
Maj. Henry Lee Higginson died at Massachusetts General Hospital on Nov. 14, 1919, from complications after an operation. In a letter written to a friend shortly before his death, he probably best summed up his life.
Born in Florence to expatriate parents, he spent his career shuttling between the major American and European capitals. He painted this penetrating portrait of the Boston banker, philanthropist, and Civil War veteran Henry Lee Higginson while visiting the United States to install his mural cycle at the Boston Public Library.
PROFESSOR BLISS PERRY’S Life and Letters of Henry Lee Higginson is a delightful portrayal of one of the most lovable men Puritan New England has ever produced.
Higginson, Henry Lee, American music patron; b. N.Y., Nov. 18, 1834; d. Boston, Nov. 14, 1919. He attended Harvard Univ. (1851) and studied music in Vienna (1856–60). In 1868 he became a partner in his father’s Boston brokerage firm of Lee, Higginson & Co.
Feb 10, 2008 · Life and Letters of Henry Lee Higginson by Henry Lee Higginson Publication date 1921 Publisher The Atlantic Monthly Press Collection americana Book from the collections of Harvard University Language English Volume 1
Jan 22, 2008 · Life and letters of Henry Lee Higginson. by. Higginson, Henry Lee, 1834-1919; Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954. Publication date. [c1921]
