Jennie Shirreff
1800s Canadian nurse, businesswoman, and philanthropist
Category Archives: Philanthropy
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Abbie M Gannett
American author
Catherine Montgomery
Canadian-American suffragist, philanthropist, founding faculty member, environmentalist, leader of the women’s club movement in the 1890’s and a 1920 Democratic candidate for state superintendent.
Marianne Smith
During the 1920s the citizens of Auckland benefited from a number of munificent bequests given by Marianne Smith. An enigmatic and very private person, she was unusual in that unlike most wealthy women of the time she had not inherited her money but had earned it herself.
Agnes Meyer
American journalist, philanthropist, civil rights activist, and art patron.
Elida Rumsey Fowle
American singer, philanthropist, and Union nurse during the American Civil War
Melinda French Gates
As co-chair of the world’s largest private charitable foundation, Melinda Gates is one of the most powerful women in philanthropy.
Sarah Cryer
New Zealand farmer, community worker and philanthropist
Hariot Blackwood
Irish marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, philanthropist and author
Harriet Bagwell
Irish philanthropist and promoter of local industry