Jane Engelhard

Jane Engelhard
Born
Mary Jane Reiss

(1917-08-12)August 12, 1917
Qingdao, China
DiedFebruary 29, 2004(2004-02-29) (aged 86)
Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
OccupationPhilanthropist
Spouses
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(m. 1939; died 1939)​
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(m. 1947; died 1971)​
ChildrenAnnette de la Renta (b. 1939)

Jane Engelhard (August 12, 1917 – February 29, 2004), born Mary Jane Reiss,[1][2] was an American philanthropist, best known for her marriage to billionaire industrialist Charles W. Engelhard Jr., as well as her donation of an elaborate 18th-century Neapolitan crêche to the White House in 1967. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1972.[3]

  1. ^ Passport records and ship manifests back to 1918, accessed on ancestry.com on 16 July 2019, cite Mary Jane for the first decade of her life.
  2. ^ "Ex-Shanghai Girl Helps Straighten Bank Affairs", The China Monthly Review, 1939
  3. ^ Vanity Fair Archived 2008-02-29 at the Wayback Machine