HIGGINSON, HENRY LEE

(18341919), banker and_ philanthropist; 6. New York City. He was educated at Harvard and showed a strong bent for music, which he later studied in Vienna. The Civil War drew him into the Union army, where he served as a lietuenantcolonel of cavalry. In 1868 he joined the Boston financial house of Lee, Higginson & Co., and became of national note as a banker and philanthropist. He contributed generously to the funds of Harvard University, of whose corporation he was elected a fellow, and alse gave large sums for charitable purposes. He was especially notable as a lavish patron of music, and founded and maintained the Boston Symphony Orchestra. bridge, Ma .; d. there. He studied for the ministry at the Harvard Divinity School and from 1847 to 1850 was pastor of a Unitarian Church in New bury port. Between 1852 and 1858 he held another pastorate at Worcester, Ma ., then abandoned the ministry to take part in the anti-slavery movement, to which he was devoted. In the Civil War he was colonel of the first regiment of freed slaves and was wounded. After the war he applied his gifts to authorship and became an advocate of educational and political reforms, specially women suffrage. His writings, which comprise many volumes and cover the period of 1863 to 1907, including Young Folks’ History of the United States, 1875, which was translated into French and German; Larger History of the United States, 1885; and biographies of _Margae ret Fuller, Long fellow and Whittier.