Helen Miller Shepard

Philanthropy, Socialite, Jay Gould, Anna Gould, George Jay Gould I, Edwin Gould I
Herausgegeben:Naoum, Jordan

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Helen Miller Gould Shepard was an American philanthropist born in Manhattan in New York City. Born as Helen Miller Gould she was the first born daughter of Jay Gould and Helen Day Miller. Her sister Anna Gould was another prominent heiress. She attended New York University School of Law, and she married Finley Johnson Shepard on January 22, 1913. They adopted three children, Finley Jay, named for Finley Johnson Shepard and Jay Gould, and Olivia, named for Helen's dear friend Mrs. Russell Sage, and Helen Anna, named for Helen and her sister, Anna and had one foster child, Louis Seton. The first of the adopted children, Finley Jay Shepard, was a three-year-old abandoned child who was found on the steps of Manhattan's St Patrick's Cathedral in 1914. They later adopted two daughters, Margaret and Dorothy, of her brother Frank Gould. In 1918 she and Emma Baker Kennedy became the first female vice presidents of the American Bible Society

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• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing / Duc
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786138250104
• ISBN-10: 6138250109
• Artikelnr.: 34718989