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Dorothy Payne Elmhirst (née Whitney; January 23, 1887 – December 14, 1968) was an American-born social activist, philanthropist, publisher and a member of the prominent Whitney family.
25 de may. de 2018 · Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight Elmhirst. Posted on Friday, May 25, 2018. by Tara Mastrelli. Categories. Founding. Gender. Philanthropy. Women. Dorothy Payne Whitney was born in 1887, the youngest child of Flora Payne and William C. Whitney.
Records of Dorothy Payne Whitney in New York City reveal the extent of her philanthropic work. She was a benefactor of the arts, feminist, and pacifist causes, as well as social and labour reform. She lent financial support to progressive alternative education plus scholarly research.
Whitney, Dorothy Payne (1887–1968) American philanthropist . Name variations: Dorothy Straight; Dorothy Straight Elmhirst; Mrs. Willard Straight. Born in April 1887 in Washington, D.C.; died in 1968 in Devon, England; daughter of William Collins Whitney and Flora (Payne) Whitney (1843–1893); married Willard Dickerman Straight, on September ...
Dorothy Elmhirst Straight (born May 25, 1958, in Washington, D.C.) is an American author who wrote How the World Began in 1962 at the age of 4 for her grandmother, Dorothy Payne Whitney, making her among the youngest published authors in history.
Biography. Dorothy was born in 1887. In 1939, at the time of the first marriage of her son Michael Straight, she was reported to be 54 years old and an educator, living in Dartington, Devon, England. [1] She passed away in 1968. Sources.
Dorothy Payne Whitney, daughter of William C. Whitney, a financier and Secretary of the Navy under President Grover Cleveland, married Willard Dickerman Straight in 19ll. Straight died in 1918, and she married Leonard Knight Elmhirst in 1925.
