Margaret Rockefeller Strong (June 11, 1897 - December 5, 1985) was an American heiress and prominent member of the Rockefeller family . She was the maternal granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller and his wife Laura Spelman Rockefeller .
5-535: She was the daughter of Elizabeth "Bessie" Rockefeller (1866–1906) and Dr. Charles Augustus Strong (1862–1940). Her maternal grandfather was Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937). Margaret saved a row of Neo-Federal townhouses on Park Avenue designed by McKim, Mead & White from destruction by purchasing the property and giving one of the townhouses to the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute in 1965. She then donated
10-433: A Chilean writer. She married Chilean ballet businessman George de Cuevas on August 3, 1927. They had two children; After her first husband, George de Cuevas , died in 1961, she married Raymundo de Larraín Valdés (1935–1988) in 1977. There was a fight about her estate which ended in a court settlement in 1987. Elizabeth Rockefeller Strong Elizabeth "Bessie" Rockefeller (August 23, 1866 – November 14, 1906)
15-574: The corner townhouse to her cousin, David Rockefeller , who there founded the Center for Inter-American Relations, now the Americas Society . In December 1979, Margaret donated her father's estate, Villa Le Balze in Fiesole , Tuscany, Italy to Georgetown University which operates an overseas campus there. Her life can be read at El Inútil de la Familia , a book written by Jorge Edwards ,
20-454: The school's first dormitory , was named in her honor in 1893 by her father who contributed $ 35,000 toward the expense of the construction. On March 22, 1889, she married philosopher and psychologist Charles Augustus Strong and had one daughter: They were residents of Lakewood, New Jersey . She died in Cannes , France on November 14, 1906, at age 40. This biographical article about
25-514: Was the eldest child of Standard Oil co-founder John Davison Rockefeller (1839–1937) and school teacher Laura Celestia "Cettie" Spelman (1839–1915). Strong was born Elizabeth Rockefeller on August 23, 1866, in Cleveland, Ohio , the eldest of five children, to John D. Rockefeller , co-founder of Standard Oil , and Laura Celestia Spelman Rockefeller . She attended Vassar College from 1886 to 1888 as special student . Strong Hall ,
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