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175: 122: 286: 234: 889: 33: 282:) was active in succoring noncombatants, organizing a health service that still exists in Soissons, a workshop to provide basic furniture to bombed-out families, a holiday camp for children, and a mobile library that was taken over by the library in Soissons, and so on. She returned in 1939 to help the Soissons evacuees. 296:, a doctor, joined Anne Morgan in France. The estate of Blérancourt was transformed into a museum and inaugurated in 1930, one year after the death of Anne Murray Dike. The two were rewarded for their services, and they later developed a romantic relationship. Dike is buried in the village cemetery at Blérancourt. 217:
Around 1910, she became a union activist. Anne Morgan actively supported striking female workers in New York's garment industry. She and other wealthy female members of her social circle stood in picket lines with striking shirtwaist workers and contributed financially to their cause. These strikes
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In order to maintain the health service network that Anne Morgan and the rest of the American volunteers had created during the First World War in the French region of Aisne, the American Committee founded the «Association d’Hygiène Sociale de l´Aisne» (A.H.S.A), an organization that would inherit
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From 1917 to 1921, Morgan took residence near the French front, not far from both Soissons and the "Chemin des Dames" at Blérancourt, and ran a formidable help organisation, The American Friends of France (it employed several hundred people at a time, volunteers from abroad and locally recruited
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By 1921, Morgan's interest in women's employment and experience founding the Colony Club evolved into the American Woman's Association, where a working woman "with ambition, pluck and energy, which will push her up and up in her profession" could network and develop leadership skills. Morgan was
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This society, formed as a vigorous protest against the growing custom of exchanging gifts at Christmas without sentiment, the custom of making Christmas gifts for the sake of expediency, or under any other form of compulsion, was organized last year, and carried on an effective and spectacular
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quoted saying that although no women of the time were equipped to head a large corporation, "in time there will be plenty of such women -- it requires only evolution." By 1930 the American Woman's Association had constructed a large building of its own in New York City, most recently the
230:. Along with a roof garden, numerous parlors, meeting rooms, and residential space, this building featured "a sunny gynmnasium equipped with every facility for body-building, including one of the finest swimming pools in America." 345:. The Association, that changed its name to «Association Médico-Sociale Anne Morgan» in 1953, after Anne Morgan´s death, has persisted to this day and continues with the work that Anne Morgan began more than 100 years ago. 847:
A five-story Sutton Place town house built more than 50 years ago for the daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan, the financier, has been offered by the owner to the United Nations as a residence for the Secretary
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who provided relief efforts in aid to France during and after World War I and II. Morgan was educated privately, traveled frequently and grew up amongst the wealth her father, banker
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Long A Friend of France. Helped Needy There for More Than 30 Years. Leader in American Women's Group. Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of the late J. Pierpont ...
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staff), financed partly out of her own deep pockets, partly with the help of an active network in the States. The AFF (aka
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Ladies and Not So Gentle Women: Elisabeth Marbury, Anne Morgan, Elsie de Wolfe, Anne Vanderbilt, and Their Times
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Morgan's friendships included many socialites and celebrities of her day. Her connection to individuals such as
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Anne Tracy Morgan was born on July 25, 1873, at "Cragston" her family's country estate on the Hudson River at
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Underwood & Underwood Studios, New York City/LOC cph.3b45075. Anne Morgan, wearing fur stole, ca. 1915
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Interior of Elsie De Wolfe' music pavilion looking out on to the pool, The Villa Trianon,
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and published in 1940 to benefit the AFF, it offered recipes by cultural icons such as
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in New York City for Morgan in 1921 was donated as a gift to the
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campaign in the closing weeks of the Christmas shopping season.
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In 1903, she became part owner of the Villa Trianon near
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in New York's garment industry immediately preceded the
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Burials at Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut)
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The Anne Morgan Story, American Friends of Blérancourt
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The Morgans: Private International Bankers, 1854-1913
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Highland Falls, New York
Mount Kisco, New York
John Pierpont Morgan
Morgan family

philanthropist
J. P. Morgan
French Legion of Honor
Highland Falls, New York
John Pierpont Morgan
née

William Bruce Ellis Ranken
Versailles
Elsie De Wolfe
Elisabeth Marbury
salon
Florence Jaffray Harriman
Colony Club
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Hudson Hotel

Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving
Eleanor Robson Belmont
Cole Porter
Broadway
See America First

American Committee for Devastated France

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