Higginson
Higginson names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Higginson HENRY LEE, an American financier and philanthropist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY LEE, an American financier and philanthropist, born in New York City in 1834. He studied at Harvard, but left to travel in Europe and to study music there. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted to serve in the First Massachusetts Cavalry, and was brevetted lieutenant colonel.' He entered the banking business in 1868 as a member of the firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. and acquired a large fortune. His chief interest was music and he maintained as long as he lived the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the most noted musical organization in the United States. He also gave largely to charity. His prominence in all fields of activity won for him the name of "Boston's first citizen" and honorary degrees from Harvard and Yale universities. He died in 1919. - HIGGINSON, THOMAS WORTH, an American author; born in Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 22, 1823; was graduated at- Harvard College in 1841. He entered the Unitarian ministry in 1847, but left in 1858, becoming active in anti-slavery agitation. During the Civil War he served first as captain and THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON later as colonel. His publications inand was advanced three numbers in clude: "Woman and Her Wishes"; "Sympathy of Religions"; "Young Folks' History of the United States" "Young, Folks' Book of American Ex plorers"; "English History for Americans"; "Cheerful Yesterdays"; "Old Cambridge"; etc. He died May 9, 1911.
Higginson FRANCIS JOHN, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANCIS JOHN, an American naval officer, born in Boston, Mass., in 1843. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1861; became a lieutenant in the following year and rose to the various grades, becoming commodore in 1898. In the Civil War he served with the West Gulf Blockading Squadron and was wounded in this service. He took part in many important actions and at the close of the war he saw service on the sea and on shore. He commanded the Naval Training Station at Newport from 1887 to 1890; was captain of the Mare Island Navy Yard in 1894-1895; and on special duty at the New York Navy Yard in 1896 and 1897. During the war with Spain he commanded the battleship "Massachusetts" rank for conspicuous conduct in battle. From 1898 to 1901 he was chairman of the Lighthouse Board and from 1901 to 1903 commander-in-chief of the North Atlantic Fleet. His last service was as commandant in the Washington Navy Yard from 1903 to 1905. He retired from active service in the latter year.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 put Thomas Wentworth Higginson down as the author of "Cheerful Yesterdays" and "Old Cambridge" and mentioned only that he "served first as captain and later as colonel." He is remembered today for two things the entry passes over: he commanded the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally authorized regiment of freed slaves, and described it in "Army Life in a Black Regiment" (1870); and he was Emily Dickinson's long-time correspondent and, with Mabel Loomis Todd, the editor who first brought her poems into print in 1890 — a role for which later critics faulted him, since the early editions smoothed her punctuation and rhymes. Henry Lee Higginson's Boston Symphony Orchestra, which he founded in 1881 and bankrolled until his death, is still performing, but the banking house of Lee, Higginson & Co. did not survive the Depression, collapsing after the 1932 exposure of the Swedish financier Ivar Kreuger's frauds.
Written for this edition, 2026.