James J. Higginson

James Jackson Higginson (June 19, 1836 – November 11, 1911) was an American stockbroker and soldier who was imprisoned at Libby Prison for nine months during the Civil War. Early life Higginson was born in New York City on June 19, 1836. He was a son of Boston merchant George Higginson and Mary Cabot ( Lee) Higginson. He was a brother of George Higginson, Jr., Henry Lee Higginson (who married a daughter of professor Louis Agassiz and founded the Boston Symphony Orchestra), Mary "Molly" ( Higginson) Blake (wife of Samuel Parkman Blake) and Francis Lee Higginson, Sr. (whose daughter Barbara married banker Barrett Wendell Jr.). His maternal grandparents were Henry Lee and Mary ( Jackson) Lee. His paternal grandparents were George Higginson and Martha Hubbard ( Babcock) Higginson. He was also a cousin of historian Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Higginson graduated from Harvard University with the class of 1857 and then studied law in Berlin but returned to the United States before the outbreak of the Civil War.