Resultado da Busca
Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (February 21, 1920 – January 25, 2012) was an American heiress, activist, politician, and philanthropist. She was the granddaughter of Benjamin N. Duke and the great-granddaughter of Washington Duke , both tobacco and energy tycoons who helped start Duke University .
- Philanthropy
- Mary Duke Biddle, February 21, 1920, New York City
25 de jan. de 2012 · By Duke Today Staff. Mary Semans in 2005 at the Nasher Museum of Art. Photo by Chris Hildreth/Duke University Photography. Mary. Duke Biddle Trent Semans, the scion of the family that founded Duke University, died on Wednesday. She was 91.
Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans. “A principal link in the life of this university.”. That is how former Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead described Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans following her death in 2012 at the age of 91. The great-granddaughter of industrialist-philanthropist Washington Duke, for whom the university is named ...
1 de abr. de 2012 · by Duke Magazine Staff. April 01, 2012 | Mar - Apr 2012 issue. Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans ’39, Hon. ’83—lifelong philanthropist, civic leader, humanitarian, and great-granddaughter of university namesake Washington Duke—died January 25 at the age of ninety-one.
In 1953, Mary Duke Biddle Trent married Dr. James Semans, a urologist at Duke, and together they had three children. Semans served the Duke and Durham communities in a myriad of ways. She served as mayor pro tem of Durham from 1953 to 1955 and was a trustee of Lincoln Community Hospital, a hospital created during segregation for African-American patients in Durham, from 1948 to 1976.
25 de jan. de 2012 · 1920-2012. Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, a member of the Duke family, was born Mary Duke Biddle in 1920. She enrolled in Duke University at the age of 15 in 1936. In 1939, she married Josiah Charles Trent, a medical student at Duke and later a Surgeon on the Duke faculty. They had four children before Dr. Trent died of lymphoma in 1948.
Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, heiress to a vast Gilded Age fortune built on tobacco and a major benefactor of UNC School of the Arts, has died. Semans, 91, died Wednesday, her daughter,...
