Barrett Wendell Jr. (April 19, 1881 – June 3, 1973) was an American investment banker.
[2] He had three younger siblings: Mary Barrett Wendell (wife of Geoffrey Manilus Wheelock and Reinier van der Woude),[1] William Greenough Wendell (who married Ruth Appleton and Evelyn Fahnestock),[1][3] and Edith Wendell (wife of publisher and Mayor of Auburn, New York Charles Devens Osborne).
[1] Wendell graduated from Harvard University in 1902, where he was on the varsity baseball team.
[7] After the original firm dissolved, and the Lee Higginson Corporation was formed, was a part of their Chicago office, eventually leading it.
[6] On June 18, 1910, Wendell was married to Barbara Higginson (1884–1971), at St. John's Episcopal Church in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts.