Examples of philanthropist in the following topics:
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- Louis, together with Eastern philanthropists, formed the Colored Relief Board and the Kansas Freedmen's Aid Society to help those stranded in St.
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- He was also one of the most important philanthropists of his era.
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- Philanthropists endowed many of these institutions.
- Wealthy philanthropists, for example, established Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Vanderbilt University, and Duke University; John D.
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- John Davison Rockefeller was an American industrialist and philanthropist.
- Rockefeller, industrialist and philanthropist, is generally regarded as the richest man in American history.
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- James Oglethorpe was a British general, Member of Parliament, and philanthropist, as well as the founder of the colony of Georgia.
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- John Davison Rockefeller was an American industrialist and philanthropist.
- He was also one of the most important philanthropists of his era.
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- As early as 1898 at the third Annual Illinois Conference on Charities, organized by Julia Lanthrop and the philanthropist Lucy Flower, reformers called for a separate system of courts for children.
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- Andrew Carnegie, who admired Spencer, was the leading philanthropist in the world (1890–1920), and a major leader against imperialism and warfare.
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- Ellen "Nellie" Cashman (1845 – 1925) became noted across the American West and in western Canada as a nurse, restaurateur, businesswoman, Roman Catholic philanthropist in Arizona, and gold prospector in Alaska.
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- In the early 1950s, philanthropist Katharine McCormick provided funding for biologist Gregory Pincus to develop the birth control pill, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1960.