Margaret Tobin Brown
The “unsinkable Molly Brown,” philanthropist, suffragist and Titanic survivor
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Dr Teresa Lozano Long
American arts patron
Elizabeth Stanton Chadbourne
She was instrumental in creating the Parksley Land and Improvement Company in Boston at the turn of the century and, as secretary and treasurer, played a significant role in overseeing the business.
Eleanor Jameson Baker
The Baker Chocolate Company, founded in the 1780s, played a significant role in Dorchester’s economy and employed many women. Eleanor inherited the company after the death of her husband in 1852 which allowed her to continue with her philanthropic work.
Sophia Elizabeth Strong Taylor
Cleveland, Ohio businesswoman and philanthropist
Irene Langhorne Gibson
Irene Langhorne Gibson chaired the Child Planning and Adoption Committee of New York’s State Charities Association for twenty-five years. She founded the New York branch of the Southern Women’s Educational Alliance, was a member of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and helped found and was a director of the Protestant Big Sisters, on whose board she served for many years.
Annie Lee Guinness
1800s Irish philanthropist
Anne Jane Carlile
Irish temperance pioneer and philanthropist
Zubaidah bint Ja’far
Abbasid princess remembered for ordering the construction of a series of wells, reservoirs and artificial pools that provided water for Muslim pilgrims along the route from Baghdad to Mecca and Medina.
Valerie Goulding
Irish philanthropist and senator