Albert Henry Wiggin

Albert Henry Wiggin
Wiggin circa 1913
Born	(1868-02-21)February 21, 1868 Medfield, Massachusetts
Died	May 21, 1951(1951-05-21) (aged 83) Greenwich, Connecticut

Albert Henry Wiggin (February 21, 1868 – May 21, 1951) was an American banker. General Electric's Owen D. Young once described him as "the most colorful and attractive figure in the commercial banking world" of his time.

Born in the town of Medfield, Massachusetts, Albert Wiggin was the son of a Unitarian minister, James Henry Wiggin, and Laura Newton. He had a brother, Langley Wiggin.

Wiggin graduated from English High School of Boston in 1885 and went on to work for J.B Moors & Company as a runner. Eight months later, he worked as a bookkeeper for another Boston bank run by his uncle called the National Bank of the Commonwealth. At the age of twenty-three he worked his way up towards an assistant for a national bank examiner in Boston. In 1892 he married Jessie Duncan Hayden with whom he had two daughters. In 1894 he became the assistant cashier of the Third National Bank of Boston.

Beginning in 1911, he started assembling a collection of art prints, drawings, watercolors, and books. Among the French, British, and American works of art on paper that Wiggin acquired were prints by Henri Fantin-Latour, Francisco Goya, Honoré Daumier, George Bellows, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Thomas Rowlandson, Jean-Louis Forain, Alphonse Legros, and many others. In 1941 he donated his collection of several thousand pieces to the Boston Public Library. Other works from his assemblage can be found at the New York Public Library and the Baltimore Museum of Art. He was made a lifetime member of the board of MIT's Charles Hayden Memorial Library.