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The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial was incorporated in October 1918 for general philanthropic purposes. It was not geographically limited and worked internationally, especially with early emphasis on emergency relief. A memorial to Laura Spelman Rockefeller, the first thought for a program was the welfare of women and children, but philanthropy is not easily granted along divisions of age ...
Even among institutions sustained by the Rockefeller philanthropies and family, Spelman College has held a special place. Established as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, it was incorporated in 1888 as Spelman College, in honor of Laura Spelman Rockefeller, wife of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. and her parents, who had been abolitionists.
25. Apr. 2024 · Quick Facts. Olmsted Brothers were hired by the National Park Service in 1938 to create a memorial to John D. Rockefeller’s wife Laura. With only a budget of $20,000, and working in harsh winter conditions, Olmsted Brothers tasked partner Henry Hubbard with the design. Hubbard was tasked with transforming the “nose of a little hill” into ...
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. In the 1920s the foundation was one of the major American supporters of ...
Junior became the foundation chairman in 1917. Through the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial (LSRM), established by Senior in 1918 and named after his wife, the Rockefeller fortune was for the first time directed to supporting research by social scientists. During its first few years of work, the LSRM awarded funds primarily to social workers ...
Laura Spelman Rockefeller (1839–1915) was raised in the Midwest, living a short time in Burlington, Iowa before her family moved to Ohio. Her father Harvey Buel Spelman was a member of the state legislature (it's unclear whether in Ohio or Iowa) and an abolitionist who was part of the Underground Railroad. As a young woman, she was a school teacher at the Hudson Street School in Cleveland ...
12. Jan. 2022 · After most of the activities of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial (LSRM) were absorbed into the Rockefeller Foundation in 1928, much of LSRM’s work in public administration was carried on by the newly created Spelman Fund of New York (which had been endowed with a residual $10 million from LSRM). Receiving periodic grants from the ...
