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Florence Jaffray "Daisy" Harriman (July 21, 1870 – August 31, 1967) was an American socialite, suffragist, social reformer, organizer, and diplomat. “She led one of the suffrage parades down Fifth Avenue, worked on campaigns on child labor and safe milk and, as minister to Norway in World War II, organized evacuation efforts while hiding in a forest from the Nazi invasion.”〔Christopher Gray, (“New York Streetscapes: Former Colony Club at 120 Madison Avenue,” ) The New York Times, 2003-09-28.〕 In her ninety-second year, U.S. President John F. Kennedy honored her by awarding her the first “Citation of Merit for Distinguished Service.”〔John F. Kennedy, "(Remarks Upon Presenting a Presidential Citation of Merit to Mrs. Florence Harriman )," April 19, 1963, reprinted at "(The American Presidency Project )" website, last accessed 2010-07-31.〕 She often found herself in the middle of historic events. As she stated, “I think nobody can deny that I have always had through sheer luck a box seat at the America of my times.”〔“( Crusader for Rights; Florence Jaffray Harriman ),” The New York Times, 1963-04-19.〕 ==Biography== Harriman was born Florence Jaffray Hurst on July 21, 1870 in New York City to shipping magnate F.W.J. Hurst and his wife Caroline. When she was three years old, her mother, then 29, died.〔"( Funeral of Mrs. Hurst )," New York Times, 1873-08-15.〕 She and her two sisters (Caroline Elise and Ethel) were raised in and around New York City by her father and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Somerville Jaffray.〔Judith A. Leavitt, “( American Women Managers and Administrators: A Selective Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Leaders in Business, Education, and Government ),” 102-03 (1985) ISBN 0-313-23748-4.〕 At age six, she watched her first political torchlight parade, part of the 1876 presidential campaign.〔Jane Eads, "Lady Democrats Fete Spry Daisy Harriman," Morgantown (WV) Dominion-News, 1958-01-22 at p. 5.〕 "She later told of leaning over the bannister of her home at 615 Fifth Avenue, to hear visitors such as John Hay, President James A. Garfield, and President Chester A. Arthur." She was known throughout her life as “Daisy.” Between 1880 and 1888, she received private lessons at the home of financier J. P. Morgan.〔(“Florence Jaffray Hurst Harriman: A Register of Her Papers in the Library of Congress,” ) Library of Congress 2002.〕 She also attended the Misses Lockwood's Collegiate School for Girls.〔 In 1889, at age nineteen, she married J. Borden Harriman, a New York banker (and an elder cousin of future cabinet secretary, New York Governor and diplomat W. Averell Harriman).〔(“New Harriman Deal ),” Time, 1934-01-22.〕 The list of attendees at their wedding included past and future president Grover Cleveland, railroad tycoons Cornelius Vanderbilt and Edward Harriman, John Jacob Astor IV, and J. P. Morgan.〔 They had one child, Ethel M.B. Harriman, born on December 11, 1897.〔Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, “(From Pinafores to Politics ),” (Henry Holt & Co., 1923) ASIN B00085GSYO (available in the ( National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, Library of Congress ) and accessed 2010-07-31).〕 Ethel worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, as an actress and writer (as Ethel Russell or Ethel Borden).〔(Broadway Database entry for Ethel Borden ) and ( Internet Movie Database entry for Ethel Borden ).〕 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「Florence Jaffray Harriman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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