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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 [ edit ]
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...
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.
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.
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.
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).
Now in its 143rd season, 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.
