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Mary Harriman Rumsey (November 17, 1881 – December 18, 1934) was an American social activist and government official. She was the founder of The Junior League for the Promotion of Settlement Movements, later known as the Junior League of the City of New York of the Association of Junior Leagues International Inc, and served as ...
The founder of The Junior League, Mary Harriman Rumsey, was a young woman ahead of her time. The daughter of Union Pacific Railroad titan and financier, E.H. Harriman, she traveled extensively with her father on business trips, family wilderness trips, and scientific expeditions.
American social welfare leader. Name variations: Mary Harriman. Born Mary Harriman on November 17, 1881, in New York City; died on December 18, 1934, in Washington, D.C.; daughter of Edward Henry Harriman (a financier and railroad magnate) and Mary Williamson (Averell) Harriman; sister of W. Averell Harriman (ambassador to the Soviet Union and ...
National Women's History Museum: Mary Harriman (online August 2015) Born on November 17, 1881, Mary Harriman was the oldest of six children to railroad industrialist, E.H. Harriman. Mary’s family was among the wealthiest in America at the turn of the twentieth century.
She had been living with Mary Harriman Rumsey, a widow and the daughter of railroad tycoon E.H. Harriman. Rumsey founded the Junior League to help the poor and a magazine that later became Newsweek. In Washington, Perkins and Rumsey were “roomies” in a large house in Georgetown.
Mary Harriman Rumsey (November 17, 1881– December 18, 1934) was a reformer who believed in cooperation rather than competition as a vehicle for social and economic enterprise.
1. Jan. 2011 · Trustee, social justice pioneer. Mary (Harriman) Rumsey (Class of 1905) attended Barnard at a time when very few women pursued higher education, and she continued to break barriers throughout her life.
