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}} | parents = | boards = | signature = Eleanor Elkins Widener SignatureToAbbotLawrenceLowell 1912.png | signature_size=210px | religion = Episcopalian }} Eleanor Elkins Widener, née Eleanore Elkins (later known as Eleanor Elkins Widener Rice or Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice; 1862July13, 1937) was an American heiress, socialite, philanthropist, and adventuress best remembered for her donation to Harvard University of the Widener Librarya memorial to her elder son Harry Elkins Widener, who (along with her first husband, George Dunton Widener) perished in the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic''. Widener later married Harvard professor Alexander Hamilton Rice, Jr., a surgeon and explorer. She subsequently accompanied Rice on a number of expeditions, including one on which she "went further up the Amazon than any white woman had penetrated" and, purportedly, he was attacked by cannibals. ==First marriage== Widener was the daughter of Philadelphia streetcar magnate William Lukens Elkins. In 1883 she married George Dunton Widener, son of her father's business partner, thereby "() two of the largest fortunes in the city. She was known as one of the city's most beautiful women." In later marriage they lived in her father-in-law's 110-room Pennsylvania mansion, Lynnewood Hall. Their children were Harry Elkins Widener, George Dunton Widener, Jr., and Eleanor (Widener) Dixon. 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「Eleanor Elkins Widener」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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