Abby Rockefeller Mauzé

Abby Rockefeller Mauzé

Abigail "Abby" Rockefeller Mauzé (September 11, 1903 – May 27, 1976) ("Babs") was the first child and only daughter of John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. and Abigail "Abby" Greene Aldrich Rockefeller. She and her five brothers carried on the Rockefeller family tradition of philanthropy stemming back to her grandfather, John Davison Rockefeller, Sr., founder of Standard Oil.

Unlike her famous brothers, she always remained out of the public eye. Among the many positions she held were: membership of the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, set up by her and her brothers in 1940; advisory member of the Board of Trustees of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, (a chief benefactor of the Center along with her brother, Laurance, she received its Medal of Appreciation in 1965); and honorary trustee of the "Rockefeller Family Fund", founded by various family members in 1967.

She was also a benefactor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the YWCA, New York Hospital, the Museum of Modern Art (of which her mother was a founder, and in whose affairs her brothers Nelson and David played a major role); the "New York Zoological Society" (which was a major interest of her brother Laurance); and the Asia Society, which was established by another brother, John D. Rockefeller 3rd.

In 1968 Mrs. Mauzé created the "Greenacre Foundation", of which she was president, in order to maintain and operate one or more parks in New York State for the benefit of the public. She also made cash and stock contributions to "East Woods School", The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, "New York Hospital", the Population Council, the "Planned Parenthood Federation of America", and the American Red Cross.

She owned property in Bermuda, the Roman Corporation at One Beekman Place, and property at the Pocantico family estate (see Kykuit. She married three times (in 1925 to David M. Milton (1900–1976), a lawyer, in 1946 to Dr. Irving H. Pardee (1892–1949), without issue, and in 1953 to Jean Mauzé (1903–1974), without issue), and died on May 27, 1976, at her apartment in One Beekman Place in New York City.

Children

*Abby Rockefeller Milton, married to George Dorr O'Neill
*Marilyn Rockefeller Milton, married to William Kelly Simpson

Further reading

*"Memoirs", David Rockefeller, New York: Random House, 2002.

ee also

*Rockefeller family
*David Rockefeller
*Nelson Rockefeller
*Laurance Rockefeller
*John D. Rockefeller 3rd
*John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
*Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

References

* [http://archive.rockefeller.edu/collections/family/abbymauze.php?printer=1 Rockefeller Archive Center: Brief biography]


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