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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...
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  • and Crimean War hero Harry Pasley Higginson (1838-1900), a British and New Zealand civil engineer Henry Lee Higginson (1834–1919), American businessman...
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  • 1853. Higginson's son, Henry Lee Higginson, joined the firm as a partner in 1868. In September 1900, George Cabot Lee Jr., grandson of John Clarke Lee, joined...
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    grandfather, also named Stephen Higginson, was a member of the Continental Congress. He was a distant cousin of Henry Lee Higginson, founder of the Boston Symphony...
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    politician who co-founded the prominent stock brokerage firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. Lee was born on April 9, 1804, at Tremont Place in Boston, Massachusetts...
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    the year, more than 1,200 members had joined. The first president, Henry Lee Higginson, was also the founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 1909,...
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  • symphony orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded by Henry Lee Higginson in 1881, the BSO performs most of its concerts at Boston's Symphony...
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    Chamberlain and built in 1905-06 for Alexander Henry Higginson. It was paid for by Higginson's father, Henry Lee Higginson. It was part of a much larger gentleman's...
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    at 301 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts. BSO founder Henry Lee Higginson commissioned architectural firm McKim, Mead and White to create a...
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  • Delano Jr. Raymond Emerson Howqua John Cleve Green Norman Wait Harris Henry Lee Higginson Gardiner Greene Hubbard James Frederick Joy Thomas Lauderdale Charles...
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    University naturalist Louis Agassiz) and his brother-in-law Henry Lee Higginson (son of George Higginson who founded the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Alexander...
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  • grandparents were Henry Lee and Mary (née Jackson) Lee. His paternal grandparents were George Higginson and Martha Hubbard (née Babcock) Higginson. He was also...
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  • Huw Higginson (born 21 February 1964) is a British-born actor, based in Australia, who is best known for playing PC George Garfield in The Bill from 1989...
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    intercollegiate athletics. The stadium mimics the Panathenaic Stadium. Henry Lee Higginson, founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and first president of...
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    Edward Everett Hale – theologian Henry Lee Higginson – founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Thomas Wentworth Higginson – soldier and writer Oliver Wendell...
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    University Press. p. 237. ISBN 0-8147-3425-1. After mustering out, Henry Lee Higginson gave up his ambitions to become a musician and went into cotton farming...
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    Civil War. Charles Edward Grinnell — clergyman, lawyer, and writer. Henry Lee Higginson — Noted American businessman and philanthropist, founder of Boston...
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    Cabot Lowell, Norwood Penrose Hallowell, William Cameron Forbes, Henry Lee Higginson, and Charles Jackson Paine, the latter of whom donated the land for...
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    Alice Howe Gibbens (wife of William James), and Ida Agassiz (wife of Henry Lee Higginson). By 1941, Deland had published 33 books. She died in Boston at the...
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  • for thirty-one years. On September 1, 1900, Lee joined the firm of Lee, Higginson & Co., which had been founded by his grandfather in 1848, and was admitted...
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  • made frequent tours, and appeared often on television. In 1881, Henry Lee Higginson, the founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, wrote of his wish...
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    Pauline, and a son, Alexander. In 1863, Agassiz's daughter Ida married Henry Lee Higginson, who later founded the Boston Symphony Orchestra and was a benefactor...
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    men in the eight companies that were engaged. One detachment under Henry Lee Higginson was virtually wiped out in hand-to-hand fighting. The tide finally...
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    of land known as Soldiers Field, donated to Harvard University by Henry Lee Higginson in 1890 as a memorial to Harvard men who had died in the Civil War...
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    Shepherd Converse Harvey Cushing Francis Hatch Augustus Hemenway Henry Lee Higginson Adams Sherman Hill Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Mark Antony DeWolfe...
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    median at the south end of the bridge was designated Higginson Circle after Henry Lee Higginson in 1920. The west parapet was removed in the 1950s when...
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  • being A. Lawrence Lowell (the president of Harvard University) and Henry Lee Higginson. All but one member of the faculty of the Harvard Law School endorsed...
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    from the original on July 24, 2011. Retrieved December 12, 2008. Jenks, Henry Fitch (1886). Catalogue of the Boston Public Latin School, Established in...
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    Bacon began his career at the investment bank of Lee, Higginson & Company in Boston; Henry Lee Higginson was a family friend and neighbor on Beacon Hill...
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  • joined Lee, Higginson & Co. (which had been founded by his wife's grandfather in 1848). After the original firm dissolved, and the Lee Higginson Corporation...
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