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Apr 25, 2024 · When it came to construction for the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, the Civilian Conservation Corps were commissioned, working until 1940. When development began, Hubbard created a clay model of two semicircular stone block terraces hugging the face of the hill, connected by steps leading to a lookout.
Jun 29, 2023 · In the audience as she spoke sat John D. Rockefeller and his wife Laura Spelman Rockefeller. They were so moved that Rockefeller emptied all the money in his pocket onto the collection plate. He also immediately pledged $250 toward purchasing the land where the college now stands in Atlanta, Georgia.
Rockefeller Chapel’s Carillon. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon and its sister instrument at Riverside Church in New York City, both dating from the early 1930s, were the masterworks of the Gillett & Johnston bell foundry of Croydon, England. Carillons of this size had never before been made, and have not been made again since ...
*Laura Spelman Rockefeller was born on this date in 1839. She was a white-American abolitionist, philanthropist, and schoolteacher. Laura Celestia Spelman was born in Wadsworth, Ohio, to Puritan descendants Harvey Buell Spelman and Lucy Henry, Yankees who had moved to Ohio from Massachusetts. Her father was an abolitionist who was active in the Congregationalist Church, the Underground ...
Rockefeller marries Laura Celestia ("Cettie") Spelman in a small, private ceremony, following a nine-year courtship. 1865 At 25, Rockefeller buys out his partners and founds Rockefeller & Andrews ...
The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial. John D. Rockefeller established the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial in honour of his late wife. The charter purpose of the Memorial was to assist women and children. Through its first three years in existence, the Memorial focused on its charter purpose, which it pursued mostly through religious ...
Laura Rockefeller Chasin. Laura Spelman Rockefeller (October 11, 1936 – November 17, 2015 [1]) was an American philanthropist. She was the eldest child of Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (1910–2004) and Mary French (1910–1997), and a fourth generation member of the Rockefeller family. She has two younger sisters, Marion, Lucy Aldrich ...
