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Laura Celestia "Cettie" Spelman Rockefeller (September 9, 1839 – March 12, 1915) was an American abolitionist, philanthropist, school teacher, and prominent member of the Rockefeller family. Her husband was Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller .
Laura Spelman Rockefeller (born September 9, 1839, Wadsworth, Ohio, U.S.—died March 12, 1915, Pocantico Hills, New York) was an American educator and philanthropist who was the wife of John D. Rockefeller of the famed Rockefeller family.
Laura Celestia Spelman Rockefeller was born on September 9, 1839, in Wadsworth, Ohio, the second of two daughters of Lucy Henry and Harvey Buel Spelman. The Spelmans later moved to Akron and to Cleveland, where Harvey prospered in the dry-goods business.
Laura Spelman Rockefeller was an American educator and philanthropist. She was also the wife of 'Standard Oil' co-founder John D. Rockefeller. Since childhood, she followed her parents' religious values. Spelman was an abolitionist and an active member of the Congregational Church.
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.
1839-1915. Memorialized by the LAURA SPELMAN ROCKEFELLER MEMORIAL FUND in The New York Community Trust. delivered the valedictory address. In her speech titled “I Can Paddle My Own Canoe,” the not-quite-15-year-old daughter of one of Cleveland’s most prosperous businessmen made a strong case for the right of women to purs.
Laura Celestia " Cettie " Spelman Rockefeller (September 9, 1839 – March 12, 1915) was an American abolitionist, philanthropist, school teacher, and prominent member of the Rockefeller family. Her husband was Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller.
Rockefeller, Laura Spelman (1839–1915) Affluent American and wife of John D. Rockefeller. Name variations: Cettie Spelman Rockefeller. Born Laura Celestia Spelman in 1839; died in 1915; married John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937, founder of Standard Oil and philanthropist), on September 8, 1864; children: Elizabeth or Bessie Rockefeller (1866 ...
Jun 29, 2023 · A visionary educator, Sophia B. Packard, shared her dreams of educating Black girls and women at a school she’d begun a year earlier, modestly, with 11 students in a church basement. In the audience as she spoke sat John D. Rockefeller and his wife Laura Spelman Rockefeller.
Apr 25, 2024 · Quick Facts. Olmsted Brothers were hired by the National Park Service in 1938 to create a memorial to John D. Rockefeller’s wife Laura. With only a budget of $20,000, and working in harsh winter conditions, Olmsted Brothers tasked partner Henry Hubbard with the design.
