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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 . Biography. Higginson was born in New York City on November 18, 1834, the second child of George Higginson and Mary Cabot Lee. [1] .
A Great Private Citizen: Henry Lee Higginson. By M. A. DeWolfe Howe. March 1920 Issue. I. HENRY LEE HIGGINSON, who died in Boston on November 14, 1919, personified to an extraordinary...
Unless you are a serious Harvard University historian, or an equally serious aficionado of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the name Henry Lee Higginson probably means nothing to you. Yet he lived a full, courageous, and fruitful life that continues to enrich the lives of many who know nothing of him.
Q Who was Henry Lee Higginson and why did Harvard University commission his portrait? A Higginson was a former major in the Union Army during the Civil War, and was also one of the great philanthropists of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Boston. He was a huge benefactor of Harvard.
By Charles W. Eliot. January 1922 Issue. 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...
The Boston Symphony Orchestra gave its inaugural concert in 1881, realizing the dream of its founder, the Civil War veteran/businessman/philanthropist Henry Lee Higginson, who envisioned a great and permanent orchestra in his hometown of Boston. A Brief History of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
The College Pump. Ahead of His Time. by Primus VI. November-December 2022. Henry Lee Higginson Photography courtesy of the Library of Congress. Looming large. Henry Lee Higginson, A.B. 1855, LL.D. 1882, left a huge mark on Boston (he founded the symphony) and Harvard (he joined the Corporation in 1893).
