Background
Higinbotham, Harlow Niles was born on October 10, 1838 in Joliet, Illinois, United States. Son of Henry D. and Rebecca Higinbotham.
Higinbotham, Harlow Niles was born on October 10, 1838 in Joliet, Illinois, United States. Son of Henry D. and Rebecca Higinbotham.
Educated Lombard University, Galesburg, Illinois, and the Commercial College, Chicago. Private in Mercantile Battery of Chicago, Union Army, and chief clerk with chief q.-m., department of the Ohio, 1862-1865.
Entered employ Field, Palmer & Leiter, dry goods, 1865. Partner in that firm’s successor, Field, Leiter & Company, 1868. And, 1881-1901, of the present firm of Marshall Field & Company.
Now president American Luxfer Prism Company, Caxton Company President World’s Columbian Exposition from 1892 until its close.
President Field Museum of Natural History, 1897-1909. The Chicago Home for Incurables, Municipal Sanitarium for Tuberculosis, et cetera
Home: Chicago, Illinois.
Married Rachel Doctorate. Davison, December 7, 1865 (died 1909).