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:''For other people named Abby Rockefeller, see Abby Rockefeller (disambiguation).'' Abigail Greene "Abby" Aldrich Rockefeller (October 26, 1874 – April 5, 1948) was an American socialite and philanthropist. Through her marriage to financier and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr., she was a prominent member of the Rockefeller family. Referred to as the "woman in the family", she was known for being the driving force behind the establishment of the Museum of Modern Art, on 53rd Street in New York, in November 1929. ==Early life and marriage== Abby was born in Providence, Rhode Island to Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich and Abigail Pearce Truman Chapman, a distant descendant of the fourth signer of the Mayflower Compact. She was a sister of Congressman Richard Steere Aldrich and banker/financier Winthrop Williams Aldrich. Her early education came at the hands of Quaker governesses. In 1891, she enrolled at the ''Miss Abbott's School for Young Ladies'' in Providence, Rhode Island. While there she studied English composition and literature, French, German, art history and ancient history, gymnastics, and dancing. She graduated in 1893 and made her debut in November 1893. On June 30, 1894, she sailed for Liverpool, beginning a lifetime of extensive European and later Asian travel. The aesthetic education she gained from abroad, initially fostered by her father, helped to inform her future discernment as an art collector. This initial four-month sojourn included the countries of England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and France.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rockarch.org/bio/abby.php )〕 In the fall of 1894 she met her future husband, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (1874—1960), the only son of Standard Oil co-founder John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (1839—1937) and schoolteacher Laura Celestia "Cettie" Spelman (1839—1915), at a friend's house in Providence. They went through a protracted engagement, during which they were invited for a trip to Cuba in 1900, on President William McKinley Jr.'s yacht. They finally married on October 9, 1901, in the major society wedding of the Gilded Age, in front of around a thousand of the elite personages of the time, at her father's summer home in Warwick Neck, Kent County, Rhode Island.〔Details of the 1901 wedding - Harr & Johnson, op.cit., (pp.81-5)〕 They settled in 13 West 54th Street from 1901 until 1913, when the construction of the nine-story mansion at 10 West 54th Street, the largest in New York city at the time, was completed by her husband. They resided at Number 10 until 1938, when they moved to a 40-room triplex apartment at 740 Park Avenue. They became the parents of six children, including the famed five "Rockefeller Brothers" - and established the renowned six-generation-strong business/philanthropic/banking/real estate dynasty: * Abigail Aldrich "Abby" Rockefeller (November 9, 1903 — May 27, 1976) * John Davison Rockefeller III (March 21, 1906 — July 10, 1978) * Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 — January 26, 1979) * Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (May 26, 1910 — July 11, 2004) * Winthrop Aldrich Rockefeller (May 1, 1912 — February 22, 1973) * David Rockefeller (born June 12, 1915) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abby Aldrich Rockefeller」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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