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Likeness printed in the Mexico Missouri Message in 1904. Mary Gwendolin [a] Byrd, Marquise des Monstiers-Mérinville ( née Caldwell; 1863–1909) was an American philanthropist and socialite. She funded the foundation of the Catholic University at Washington, D.C. in the 1880s, but had renounced the Roman Catholic faith by 1904.
Marquise des Monstiers Merinville and philanthropist. Gave much of her fortune to Catholic charities and organizations, including a $300,000 for the divinity school housed in the Caldwell Building of Washington D.C.'s Catholic University of America. She and her sister sold the land for the Shelby Park neighborhood, in...
A major building at Catholic University is named for Mary Guendaline (also spelled Gwendoline) Byrd Caldwell (1863-1909), a major donor to the university and one of the "Caldwell Sisters" memorialized with a spectacular and well-known monument at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, where they are buried.
Caldwell, Mary Gwendolin (1863–1909) American philanthropist. Name variations: Mamie; Marquise des Monstiers-Mérinville. Born Mary Gwendolin Caldwell in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1863; died on October 5, 1909, aboard the German liner Kronprinzessin Cecile outside New York; elder of two daughters of William Shakespeare Caldwell (a constructor and operator of gas plants in the Midwest) and ...
birth on October 21,1863, to her first child, Mary "Mamie" Gwendolin Byrd. A second daughter, Mary Elizabeth "Lina" Breckenridge, was born on December 26, 1865. One hundred years later, the historian David Francis Sweeney, O.F.M., referred for the first time in any published manuscript to certain "serious allegations" which Lina Caldwell had ...
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Mary Gwendoline Caldwell bestowed the first donation to the Third Plenary Council of American Biships that initiated the founding of The Catholic University of America. Although she was born in Louisville, Kentucky on October 5, 1863 to William Shakespeare Caldwell and Mary Eliza Breckinridge, Mary Gwendoline grew up in New York City, where she attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart in ...
