Barrett Wendell Jr.

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. He had three younger siblings: Mary Barrett Wendell (wife of Geoffrey Manilus Wheelock and Reinier van der Woude), and Edith Wendell (wife of publisher and Mayor of Auburn, New York Charles Devens Osborne).

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. His maternal grandparents were Catharine Scollay ( Curtis) Greenough and William Whitwell Greenough, the president of the Boston Public Library.

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. After the original firm dissolved, and the Lee Higginson Corporation was formed, was a part of their Chicago office, eventually leading it. Barbara was the third daughter of Francis Lee Higginson and Julia ( Borland) Higginson and a niece of Henry Lee Higginson. Together, they were the parents of:

Barbara Wendell (1911–2014), who Horace H. Soule of Boston in 1934. They also divorced. Francis Lee Higginson Wendell (1916–1994), who married Camilla Alsop, daughter of Francis J. G. Alsop, in 1937. the former wife of Charles Brooks Armour.

Wendell died on June 3, 1973, at Lake Forest Hospital in Lake Forest, Illinois.