Helen Miller Shepard

Helen Miller Shepard (born Gould, born June 20, 1868 in New York City; † December 21, 1938 in Roxbury ) was an American philanthropist.

Life

Helen Miller Gould was born as the first daughter of the entrepreneur Jay Gould and his wife Helen Day Miller ( 1838-1889 ). She studied at the Faculty of Law at New York University and married in 1913 the railway manager Finley Johnson Shepard, with whom she adopted a total in subsequent years, five children, including two daughters of her brother Frank Gould. 1918, she and Emma Baker Kennedy, the first female Vice President of the American Bible Society. After her death she was buried in the family mausoleum at New York's Woodlawn Cemetery.

Philanthropic activity

At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, Helen Miller Shepard donated the remarkable at that time sum of $ 50,000 for the supply of military hospitals with medical supplies and also worked himself in the care of wounded soldiers. It financed the construction of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans and the library building at New York University and donated the engineering faculty $ 10,000. Numerous other institutions and organizations, including the Rutgers College, the Young Men's Christian Association and the Young Women's Christian Association, were also encouraged by it.