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Bertha Matilde Palmer (née Honoré; May 22, 1849 – May 5, 1918) was an American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist.She was the wife of millionaire Potter Palmer and early member of the Chicago Woman's Club, as well as president of the Board of Lady Managers.
Arabella Duval Huntington (née Yarrington; c. 1850/1851 – September 16, 1924) was an American philanthropist and once known as the richest woman in the country as a result of inheritances she received upon the deaths of her husbands. She was the force behind the art collection that is housed at the Huntington Library in California.
Helen Clay Frick (September 2, 1888 – November 9, 1984) [1] was an American philanthropist and art collector. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the third child of the coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) and his wife, Adelaide Howard Childs (1859–1931).
Ima Hogg, c. 1900 Ima Hogg (July 10, 1882 – August 19, 1975), known as "The First Lady of Texas", [1] was an American society leader, philanthropist, mental health advocate, patron and collector of the arts, and one of the most respected women in Texas during the 20th century. [2]
Louisa's childhood in Paris was marked by the early tuition she received in the arts, in keeping with being a great-granddaughter of the writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Art, religion, and philanthropy would feature prominently in her life. Despite being an accomplished amateur artist, her paintings did not appear in galleries until the 1870s.
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (née McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955 [1]) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. ...
Julia Stephen was born in Calcutta, Bengal, then the capital of British India, on 7 February 1846, as Julia Prinsep Jackson.Her parents, Maria "Mia" Theodosia Pattle (1818–1892) and John Jackson (1804–1887), [a] belonged to two Anglo-Indian families, [2] [3] [4] although Maria's mother, Adeline Marie Pattle (née de l'Etang), was French.
Rachel Lambert "Bunny" Mellon (August 9, 1910 – March 17, 2014) was an American horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector.She designed and planted a number of significant gardens, including the White House Rose Garden, and assembled one of the largest collections of rare horticultural books.