Phoebe Hearst

Phoebe Hearst ( born December 3, 1842 in Franklin County, Missouri, † April 14, 1919 in Pleasanton, California ) was an American philanthropist and was regarded as a promoter of women's education in California.

Life

In 1861, the only 19 -year-old primary school teacher Phoebe Apperson married in St. Louis George Hearst ( 1820-1891 ), a rich gewordenem by mines and agriculture multimillionaire. After the wedding, the couple moved to San Francisco, where she had her only child, William Randolph (1863-1951), gave birth to. In addition to the social representations that filled the society columns of the newspapers, she was involved in several charitable organizations.

In 1886, her husband ran for the Senate elections for the Republicans, and after the election was successful, he resigned his office, which he and his family moved to Washington DC led, at the beginning of 1887. Phoebe began in Washington a lively social life with which she supported Georges political work directly by it provided for a variety of concerns lobbying and created compounds that could then take advantage of her husband. After the death of her husband Phoebe Hearst became the sole heir to a vast fortune and went back to Pleasanton.

During her later life Phoebe Hearst was able to promote the educational institutions and particularly women's education in California often. These included a training center for kindergarten teachers and in 1887 she founded the first free kindergarten in the United States. 1891 Hearst donated a scholarship program for students at the University of Berkeley and six years later she founded the National Congress of Mothers, a forerunner of the Parents Association. In the same year Phoebe Hearst was elected as the first female dean at the University of California which she paused until her death. She was interested, above all, the American Archeology, she traveled to Acre and Haifa in Palestine (now Israel). With Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter became close friends. 1901 was financed by it, the Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California are established, among other finds of the expedition known researchers such as Alfred Kroeber, George Andrew Reisner and Max Uhle were on permanent display.

Phoebe Hearst died 76 years old in Pleasanton at the consequences of the Spanish flu and was on the Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California, buried.

Reference value

• Phoebe Apperson Hearst was a member of the Baha'i faith.
• Her son, William Randolph Hearst, publicist and politician built a today 's most powerful media empire. His success story inspired Orson Welles 'Citizen Kane'.
• Your great-granddaughter, Patricia Campbell Hearst (born 1954 ), became known through a spectacular abduction by the radical left-wing Symbionese Liberation Army.
• In her honor received the Hearst Papyrus his name.