Barrett Wendell Jr. Explained

Birth Date:	19 April 1881
Birth Place:	Boston, Massachusetts
Death Place:	Lake Forest, Illinois
Alma Mater:	Harvard University
Employer:	Lee, Higginson & Co.
Parents:	Barrett Wendell Edith Greenough
Spouse:	Barbara Higginson
Children:	3
Relations:	Jacob Wendell (uncle) Catherine Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon (cousin) William Whitwell Greenough (grandfather)

Barrett Wendell Jr. (April 19, 1881 – June 3, 1973) was an American investment banker.

Early life

Wendell was born on April 19, 1881, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the eldest child of Edith (Greenough) Wendell and Barrett Wendell, a well-known professor of English at Harvard. His mother was a national leader of movements to preserve historical sites.^[1] He had three younger siblings: Mary Barrett Wendell (wife of Geoffrey Manilus Wheelock and Reinier van der Woude), William Greenough Wendell (who married Ruth Appleton and Evelyn Fahnestock),^[2] and Edith Wendell (wife of publisher and Mayor of Auburn, New York Charles Devens Osborne).^[3]

His paternal grandparents were Jacob Wendell and Mary Bertodi (Barrett) Wendell. His uncle was actor Jacob Wendell, father of Catherine Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon and Philippa Stewart, Countess of Galloway.^[4] His maternal grandparents were Catharine Scollay (Curtis) Greenough and William Whitwell Greenough, the president of the Boston Public Library.^[5]

Wendell graduated from Harvard University in 1902, where he was on the varsity baseball team. For several years after graduation, he coached Harvard's team.

Career

Wendell joined Lee, Higginson & Co. (which had been founded by his wife's grandfather in 1848).^[6] After the original firm dissolved, and the Lee Higginson Corporation was formed, was a part of their Chicago office, eventually leading it. He retired as a director of the corporation in 1965. In 1919, Wendell compiled the History of Lee, Higginson & Co., which remained unpublished.

He was a governor of the Investment Bankers' Association of America, an overseer of Harvard University and president of the Harvard Club of Chicago and of the Bond Club of Chicago.

Personal life

On June 18, 1910, Wendell was married to Barbara Higginson (1884–1971), at St. John's Episcopal Church in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts.^[7] Barbara was the third daughter of Francis Lee Higginson and Julia (Borland) Higginson and a niece of Henry Lee Higginson.^{[8] [9]} Together, they were the parents of:^[10]

• Barbara Wendell (1911–2014),^[11] who Horace H. Soule of Boston in 1934.^[10] They divorced in 1938 and she married Chester Brooks Kerr in 1944.^[12] They also divorced.^[11]
• Barrett Wendell III (1913–1987), who married Margaret Mitchell, daughter of Leeds Mitchell, in 1937.^{[13] [14]}
• Francis Lee Higginson Wendell (1916–1994), who married Camilla Alsop, daughter of Francis J. G. Alsop, in 1937.^{[15] [10]} He later married Joan (Monroe) Armour,^[16] the former wife of Charles Brooks Armour.^[17]

Wendell died on June 3, 1973, at Lake Forest Hospital in Lake Forest, Illinois.^[18]

External links

• Wendell, Barrett, Jr., b. 1881 at Portsmouth Athenæum

Notes and References

1. News: TIMES . Special to THE NEW YORK . MRS. WENDELL, LEADER IN PATRIOTIC GROUPS; Widow of Harvard University Professor Dies in Boston . 11 May 2022 . . 4 October 1938.
2. News: MRS. EVELYN STEELE MARRIED TO BANKER; Former Miss Fahnestock Bride of William G. Wendell . 11 May 2022 . . 15 May 1938.
3. News: CHARLES OSBORNE, PUBLISHER, DEAD; Head of Citizen-Advertiser in Auburn Was Ex-Mayor . 11 May 2022 . . 2 June 1961.
4. Web site: Wendell Family Correspondence, 1801-1896 – MS088 . portsmouthathenaeum.org . . 11 May 2022 . 18 October 2017.
5. Book: Society . New England Historic Genealogical . Proceedings of the New England Historic Genealogical Society . 1919 . . lii . 11 May 2022 . en.
6. News: LEE, HIGGINSON & CO. PLAN WIDE CHANGES; Banking Firm to Drop the Securities Business and Eventually Liquidate. WILL FORM CORPORATION New Organization to Confine Offices to New York, Chicago and Boston. AGENTS OF IVAR KREUGER Total of the Securities Handled Over Many Years Put at $1,000,000,000. . 12 May 2022 . . 15 June 1932.
7. News: Times . Special to The New York . WENDELL--HIGGINSON. . 13 May 2022 . . 19 June 1910.
8. News: BETROTHAL ANNOUNCED Miss Barbara Higginson, Daughter of Francis L. Higginson, to Wed Barrett Wendell Jr. . 13 May 2022 . . 25 January 1910 . 3.
9. Book: Jaher . Frederic Cople . The Urban Establishment: Upper Strata in Boston, New York, Charleston, Chicago, and Los Angeles . 1982 . . 978-0-252-00932-7 . 145 . 12 May 2022 . en.
10. Web site: Wendell, Barrett, Jr., b. 1881 . athenaeum.pastperfectonline.com . . 12 May 2022.
11. News: Paid Notice: Deaths KERR, BARBARA WENDELL . 12 May 2022 . . August 10, 2014 . en.
12. News: Clipped From Chicago Tribune . 12 May 2022 . . 9 July 1944 . 33.
13. News: TIMES . Special to THE NEW YORK . NANTUCKET BRIDAL FOR MISS MITCHELL; Alumna of Masters School Is Wed to Barrett Wendell. 3d in Father's Summer Home . 12 May 2022 . . 30 July 1937.
14. Web site: Wendell, Barrett III, b. 1913. . athenaeum.pastperfectonline.com . . 12 May 2022.
15. News: TIMES . Special to THE NEW YORK . MISS CAMILLA ALSOP HAS SIMPLE WEDDING; Becomes Bride of Francis Lee Higginson Wendell in Church at Milton, Mass. . 12 May 2022 . . 19 June 1937.
16. News: F. Lee Wendell, 78, Marketing Executive . 12 May 2022 . . 24 August 1994.
17. News: TIMES . Special to THE NEW YORK . C. B. ARMOUR TO WED MISS JOAN E. MONROE . 12 May 2022 . . 13 May 1946.
18. News: BARRETT WENDELL, CHICAGO BANKER, 92 . 12 May 2022 . . 4 June 1973.