Philanthropist.
Supported educational and health causes in Cleveland and elsewhere. She founded the Commonwealth Fund in NYC on October 17, 1918. In Cleveland, she endowed a chair in Biblical literature at (Case) Western Reserve University, presented a $50,000 gift to Lake side Hospital, and with her son-in-law Louis Severance funded WRU's Harkness Chapel, dedicated in 1902 to her late daughter Florence.
In 1917 she gave a gift of $3.5 million to Yale University. She and her son Edward also gave 20 acres of land to Columbia University for their medical center.
She was the Second wife of Stephen Harkness m 1854. Two daughters, Jennie and Florence, and two sons, Charles W. and Edward S.
Supported educational and health causes in Cleveland and elsewhere. She founded the Commonwealth Fund in NYC on October 17, 1918. In Cleveland, she endowed a chair in Biblical literature at (Case) Western Reserve University, presented a $50,000 gift to Lake side Hospital, and with her son-in-law Louis Severance funded WRU's Harkness Chapel, dedicated in 1902 to her late daughter Florence.
In 1917 she gave a gift of $3.5 million to Yale University. She and her son Edward also gave 20 acres of land to Columbia University for their medical center.
She was the Second wife of Stephen Harkness m 1854. Two daughters, Jennie and Florence, and two sons, Charles W. and Edward S.
Philanthropist.
Supported educational and health causes in Cleveland and elsewhere. She founded the Commonwealth Fund in NYC on October 17, 1918. In Cleveland, she endowed a chair in Biblical literature at (Case) Western Reserve University, presented a $50,000 gift to Lake side Hospital, and with her son-in-law Louis Severance funded WRU's Harkness Chapel, dedicated in 1902 to her late daughter Florence.
In 1917 she gave a gift of $3.5 million to Yale University. She and her son Edward also gave 20 acres of land to Columbia University for their medical center.
She was the Second wife of Stephen Harkness m 1854. Two daughters, Jennie and Florence, and two sons, Charles W. and Edward S.
Supported educational and health causes in Cleveland and elsewhere. She founded the Commonwealth Fund in NYC on October 17, 1918. In Cleveland, she endowed a chair in Biblical literature at (Case) Western Reserve University, presented a $50,000 gift to Lake side Hospital, and with her son-in-law Louis Severance funded WRU's Harkness Chapel, dedicated in 1902 to her late daughter Florence.
In 1917 she gave a gift of $3.5 million to Yale University. She and her son Edward also gave 20 acres of land to Columbia University for their medical center.
She was the Second wife of Stephen Harkness m 1854. Two daughters, Jennie and Florence, and two sons, Charles W. and Edward S.
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