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Jun 7, 2024 · Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports are created by recipients of research travel stipends and by many others who have conducted research at the RAC. The reports demonstrate the breadth of the RAC's archival holdings, particularly in the study of philanthropy and its effects.
Jun 10, 2024 · How much of this is due to his wife, Laura Spelman Rockefeller, is hard to say, but this hurricane in heels loved to fight for what she believed was right. Laura was born in Wadsworth, Ohio, where her father was active on the Underground Railroad.
May 31, 2024 · John D. Rockefeller había contraído matrimonio con Laura Celestia Spelman, una profesora de Nueva York, con la que estuvo casado hasta su muerte y con quien tuvo cinco hijos: Elizabeth, Alice, Alta, Edith y un único hijo varón: John D. Rockefeller Jr., quien heredaría su vasto imperio tras su muerte. Desde 1911, tras la jubilación de su ...
Jun 11, 2024 · At the time of his death in 1937, the oil dynasty founder boasted an estimated net worth of $1.4 billion, the equivalent of $21.7 billion in 2024. However, some financial scholars have even...
3 days ago · Alex Johnson is the University Carillonist of the University of Chicago. There he teaches a studio of 20 students and regularly plays the 72-bell, 100-ton Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon at Rockefeller Chapel.
Jun 17, 2024 · Significant funding for social science research in the 1920s and 1930s from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund and Rockefeller Foundation (which merged in 1932) attracted a highly competent group of scholars from various disciplines and encouraged exchange and collaboration among them.
6 days ago · One of the early financial backers was John D. Rockefeller, who named the college after his wife, Laura Spelman Rockefeller and her parents who were longtime activists in the antislavery movement. Spelman’s legacy includes a mission to prepare women for leadership and an emphasis in getting her graduates into courtrooms, board rooms and ...
