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.
[1] 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.
[1] After the War, he started his career as a stockbroker and continued working until his retirement and the sale of his seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1892.
[7] During the U.S. Civil War, he entered service for the Union Army as a Second Lieutenant of the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment.
[1] Higginson died of pneumonia at 16 East 41st Street, his residence in New York City, on November 11, 1911.