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Laura Celestia Spelman nacque a Wadsworth nel 1839. I genitori di Spelman erano Harvey Buell Spelman e Lucy Henry, due yankee puritani emigrati dal Massachusetts.Harvey era un fervente abolizionista votato al credo congregazionale che aveva aiutato gli schiavi afroamericani a fuggire attraverso la Ferrovia Sotterranea negli stati "liberi". ". Laura Spelman aveva anche una sorella adottiva ...
11 de sept. de 2020 · The Rockefeller Foundation and the Future of the GEB’s Southern Program. By the 1930s, the GEB was one of two Rockefeller philanthropies working expressly on southern race issues (the other was the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, founded in 1917).LSRM, Series 3.8, Appropriations – Interracial Relations, Rockefeller Archive Center.
Laura Spelman Rockefeller with her daughter, Edith Rockefeller McCormick, and Edith’s sons, John Rockefeller McCormick and Harold Fowler McCormick. 10 There were two Rockefeller weddings in 1901. Alta had combined her father’s gift for organization and her mother’s interest in
12 de ene. de 2022 · A solution arrived in 1918, when John D. Rockefeller established the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial (LSRM), named for his late wife, in order to continue her interests in social welfare. It operated as a separate but closely related philanthropic enterprise.
Alta was born on April 12, 1871, in Cleveland in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. [1] She was the third daughter of John Davison Rockefeller (1839–1937) and Laura Celestia "Cettie" (née Spelman) Rockefeller (1839–1915). Among her siblings was Bessie Rockefeller, who married psychologist Charles Augustus Strong; Edith Rockefeller, who married Harold Fowler McCormick; and John D. Rockefeller Jr., who ...
John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. (JDR Jr.) was a philanthropist who gave more than $537 million to educational, religious, cultural, medical, and civic projects. The son of John D. Rockefeller, founder of the Standard Oil Company, and Laura Spelman Rockefeller, he was born on January 29, 1874, in Cleveland, Ohio, and died on May 11, 1960, in Tucson, Arizona.
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial was founded October 18, 1918 by John D. Rockefeller Sr., in memory of his deceased wife, and was terminated as a legal entity on January 3, 1929. The Memorial's mandate was the promotion of the welfare of women and children worldwide. Source for information on Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial: Encyclopedia of Children ...
