\"Philanthropist\" Helen Miller Shepard Hand Written 3 Page Letter Dated 1905 For Sale

Up for sale a VERY RARE! "Philanthropist" Helen Miller Shepard Hand Written 3 Page Letter Dated 1905.

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Helen

Miller Gould Shepard (June

20, 1868 – December 21, 1938) was an American philanthropist born in Manhattan in New York City. Born

as Helen Miller Gould, she was the first-born daughter of Jay Gould and Helen Day Miller (1838–1889). Her sister Anna Gould was another prominent heiress. She

attended New York University School

of Law, and she married Finley Johnson Shepard (1867–1942)

on January 22, 1913.

They adopted three children and had one

foster child, Louis Seton. The adopted children were:

abandoned child who was found on the steps of Manhattan's St Patrick's Cathedral in

1914,

Helen had also cared

for her brother Frank Gould's twin daughters, Helen Margaret and Dorothy (b. 1904) by

his first wife, Helen Kelly. In

1918 she and Emma Baker the first female vice presidents of the American Bible Society. At

the commencement of the Spanish–American War, she

donated US$100,000 to the United States government in support of the

war. She gave an additional US$50,000 toward military hospital

supplies and was active in the Women's

National War Relief Association, working in a hospital for wounded soldiers. She

donated the library building at New York University and

began the Hall of Fame.

She gave US$10,000 for the engineering school. She gave additional

contributions to Rutgers College. Both her contributions, as well as other organizations. She was a member of the

board of the Russell Sage Foundation and

of the national board of the YWCA.