Higginson, Henry Lee

Life Span
to
Full name
Henry Lee Higginson
Place of Birth
New York, NY
Burial Place
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Siblings
4
No. of Spouses
1
Family
George Higginson (father), Mary Cabot Lee Higginson (mother), Ida Agassiz (wife), Louis Agassiz (father-in-law), Thomas Wentworth Higginson (cousin)
Education
Harvard
Occupation
Military
Businessman
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Military
Union Army
Date Event
In Virginia, future founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra left for dead on the battlefield
Date Title
Recollection by Henry Lee Higginson of the Battle of Aldie, June 17, 1863
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