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Renovation of Laura Spelman Rockefeller Hall; Wellness Revolution launched; 2013. Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell becomes the 10th president of Spelman College, succeeding Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum; 2014. Spelman College exceeds its comprehensive fundraising campaign goal, generating $157.8 million — the largest amount raised in the history of the ...
In the social sciences, he founded the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial in 1918, which was subsequently folded into the Rockefeller Foundation in 1929. A committed internationalist, he financially supported programs of the League of Nations and crucially funded the formation and ongoing expenses of the Council on Foreign Relations and its initial headquarters building in New York in 1921.
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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.
In October 1918 John D. Rockefeller established the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial. For its first four years the Memorial focused on providing resources to assist the well-being of women and children. In January 1921 Rockefeller supplemented the Memorial's original endowment of over $13 million with an additional roughly $60 million, which would be used for a programme to support ...
William Rockefeller Sr. William Avery " Devil Bill " Rockefeller Sr. (November 13, 1810 – May 11, 1906) was an American businessman, lumberman, herbalist, salesman, and con artist who went by the alias of Dr. William Levingston. He worked as a lumberman and then a traveling salesman who identified himself as a "botanic physician" and sold ...
9. Apr. 2010 · In 1864, Rockefeller married Laura Celestia “Cettie” Spelman (1839-1915), an Ohio native whose father was a prosperous merchant, politician and abolitionist active in the Underground Railroad.
