| Harkness, Edward Stephen, 1874-1940 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| dates | 1874-1940 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| city | New York City | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| state | NY | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| other cities | Waterford, CT; Cleveland, OH; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sex | M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| history |
Art collector, railway financier, philanthropist and archaeologist. Harkness inherited a large fortune from his father, Stephen Vanderburg Harkness, a partner of John D. Rockefeller. He contributed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, Harvard and Yale universities, and the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. In 1918 Harkness helped to establish a foundation known as the Commonwealth Fund. The foundation's assets are used mainly for medical research and education, medical and public-health services in rural areas, and mental-health services. |
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| decades | 1900-1910 1910-1920 1920-1930 1930-1940 |
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| updated | 10/31/2024 13:33:18 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| research links |
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