Eleanor Elkins Widener
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title:
Eleanor Elkins Widener
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Eleanor Elkins Widener was an American heiress, socialite, philanthropist, and adventuress who donated Widener Library to Harvard University as a memorial to her elder son, Harry Elkins Widener, who along with her first husband, George Dunton Widener, perished in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Widener later married Harvard professor Alexander Hamilton Rice Jr., a surgeon and explorer, and accompanied him on a number of expeditions, including one on which she "went further up the Amazon than
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American heiress (c.1861–1937)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Elkins_Widener
date created:
2014-04-18T17:16:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T02:31:38Z
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