Edward Harkness
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 84 years ago |
Date of birth | January 22,1874 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Cleveland |
Ohio | |
United States | |
Date of died | January 29,1940 |
Died | Manhattan |
New York | |
United States | |
Nationality | American |
Spouse | Mary Stillman |
Siblings | Lamon V. Harkness |
Florence Harkness | |
Charles W. Harkness | |
Education | St. Paul's School |
Yale University | |
Yale College | |
Columbia Law School | |
Parents | Stephen V. Harkness |
Anna M. Harkness | |
Place of burial | Woodlawn Cemetery • Crematory • Conservancy, New York, United States |
Founded | Pilgrim Trust |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 770749 |
Edward Harkness Life story
Edward Stephen Harkness was an American philanthropist. Given privately and through his family's Commonwealth Fund, Harkness' gifts to private hospitals, art museums, and educational institutions in the Northeastern United States were among the largest of the early twentieth century.