Phoebe Hearst

1842

Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson Hearst (December 3, 1842 – April 13, 1919) was an American philanthropist, feminist and suffragist.

1860

Clair in 1860 to care for his dying mother and met Phoebe.

1862

When they married on June 15, 1862, she was 19. ==Family life== Soon after their marriage, the couple left Missouri and moved to San Francisco, California, where Phoebe gave birth to their only child, William Randolph Hearst.

1880

After Phoebe's death in 1919, William inherited a $10 million fortune. == Philanthropy== In the 1880s, she became a major benefactor and director of the Golden Gate Kindergarten Association and the first president of the Century Club of California.

1896

In 1896, in her first major act of museum philanthropy, she donated more than two hundred objects to the Penn Museum, many of them items such as Anasazi ceramics excavated from the Cliff Palace site of Mesa Verde, Colorado.

1897

The association had 26 schools at the time of the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. Hearst was a major benefactor of the University of California, Berkeley, and its first woman regent, serving on the board from 1897 until her death.

1898

Hearst funded the Hearst Library in Anaconda, Montana, in 1898.

1900

In 1900, she co-founded the all-girls National Cathedral School in Washington, DC.

1902

In 1902, Hearst funded the construction of a building to provide teacher training and to house kindergarten classes and the association's offices.

1904

She maintained it until 1904. Hearst became a close friend of Dr.

1906

The association had 26 schools at the time of the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. Hearst was a major benefactor of the University of California, Berkeley, and its first woman regent, serving on the board from 1897 until her death.

1919

Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson Hearst (December 3, 1842 – April 13, 1919) was an American philanthropist, feminist and suffragist.

After Phoebe's death in 1919, William inherited a $10 million fortune. == Philanthropy== In the 1880s, she became a major benefactor and director of the Golden Gate Kindergarten Association and the first president of the Century Club of California.




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