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Betsey Maria Whitney (née Cushing, formerly Roosevelt; May 18, 1908 – March 25, 1998) was an American philanthropist, a former daughter-in-law of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and later wife of U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St James's, John Hay Whitney.
26 de mar. de 1998 · Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, the widow of John Hay (Jock) Whitney, the first wife of James Roosevelt and the last of the three glamorous Cushing sisters of Boston, died yesterday at...
3 de jan. de 1999 · The women had six husbands in all, among them an Astor, a Whitney, a Roosevelt and William S. Paley, the founder of CBS. But the middle and last surviving sister, Betsey Cushing Whitney,...
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She was the middle daughter of prominent neurosurgeon Dr. Harvey Williams Cushing and his wife Katharine Stone Crowell, who hailed from a socially prominent Cleveland family. Dr. Cushing, who was descended from Matthew Cushing, an early settler of Hingham, Massachusetts, served as professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Yale Universities...
She established the Greentree Foundation in 1983 to assist local community groups. She was a benefactor of North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, built in the early 1950s on 15 acres (61,000 m2) donated by Whitney. She was also involved with the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Yale University and New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Among ...
In June 1930, she married James Roosevelt II (1907–1991), the eldest son of then Governor of New York, and eventual President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. After her father-in-law became President, she was reportedly FDR's favorite daughter-in-law, though she and Eleanor did not care for one another. He...
Self-Portrait (1889) by Vincent van GoghMarcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in Chilpéric (1895/1896) by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecOpen Window, Collioure (1905) by Henri MatisseThe Harbor of La Ciotat (1907) by Georges BraqueThe Sisters: Babe Mortimer Paley, Betsey Roosevelt Whitney, Minnie Astor Fosburgh: The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sistersby David Grafton (Villard 1992).Last Cushing sister dies: Betsey Whitney outlived husbands, by Enid Nemy, The New York Times, March 26, 199827 de mar. de 1998 · By Associated Press. March 26, 1998 at 7:00 p.m. EST. NEW YORK -- Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, 89, a philanthropist in medicine and art who was the widow of publisher and ambassador...
American socialite and philanthropist. Name variations: Betsey Cushing; Mrs. James Roosevelt; Mrs. John Hay Whitney. Born Betsey Maria Cushing, May 18, 1908; died in Manhasset, New York, Mar 25, 1998; dau. of Henry Cushing (neurosurgeon) and Katherine "Kate" (Crowell) Cushing; sister of Babe Paley (1915–1978) and Minnie Astor Fosburgh (1906 ...
A collection of papers documenting the lives of the Whitney family, a prominent American family with interests in business, public service, publishing, and art. The collection includes materials related to Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and wife of John Hay Whitney.
