Rebecca Buffum Spring
New Jersey’s Rebecca Buffum Spring (1811-1911) founded the middle-class utopian communities of The North American Phalanx at Red Bank as well as the Raritan Bay Union at Perth Amboy.
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Carrie Steele Logan
Carrie Steele Logan founded the Carrie Steele Orphan Home in Atlanta, recognized as the oldest predominantly Black orphanage in Georgia and possibly the oldest organization of its type in the country.
Anna Maria O’Brien
1800s Irish philanthropist
Louisa Maculloch
Louisa Maculloch (1785-1863) was the first director of the Morristown Female Charitable Society which was founded in 1830 in New Jersey to serve the poor.
Gillian Laura Condie Falconer
Passionate about art and design, she was skilled at screen printing, some of her designs taken by Liberty and the National Trust.
Abby Hopper Gibbons
1800s American philanthropist
Dr Elizabeth Alexander
Poet, scholar, and cultural advocate; a nationally recognized thought leader on race, justice, and American society and president of the Mellon Foundation, the largest funder of the arts, culture, and humanities in the United States.
Caroline Kline Galland
Caroline Rosenberg Kline Galland, an early and important Seattle philanthropist, devoted her life to serving the community. Her will bequeathed funds for a home for the Jewish aged and for other charities, including a tuberculosis hospital.
Ellen Cuffe
Countess of Desart, philanthropist, and senator
Elizabeth Smith Miller
American suffragist and dress reformer