Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson Hearst (December 3, 1842 – April 13, 1919) was an American philanthropist, feminist and suffragist.
Clair in 1860 to care for his dying mother and met Phoebe.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hearst funded the Hearst Library in Anaconda, Montana, in 1898.
In 1900, she co-founded the all-girls National Cathedral School in Washington, DC.
In 1902, Hearst funded the construction of a building to provide teacher training and to house kindergarten classes and the association's offices.
She maintained it until 1904. Hearst became a close friend of Dr.
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.
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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