Mary Louise (Curtis) Bok Zimbalist | |
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| Born | Mary Louise Curtis August 6, 1876 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | January 4, 1970 (aged 93) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Philanthropist |
| Known for | Founder of the Curtis Institute of Music |
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| Parent(s) | Cyrus H. K. Curtis and Louisa Knapp Curtis |
Mary Louise Curtis (August 6, 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts – January 4, 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)[1][2] was the founder of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She was the only child of the magazine and newspaper magnate Cyrus H. K. Curtis and Louisa Knapp Curtis, the founder and editor of the Ladies' Home Journal.[3]
She has also been credited with funding many of the landscape improvements made to the inner waterfront of the Camden, Maine village harbor during the early to mid-1900s.[4]
- ^ Friedrich, Otto. Decline and Fall. Harper and Row, 1970, p. 475
- ^ Bok, Edward W. (1920) The Americanization of Edward Bok. Lakeside Classics edition, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago, Illinois, pp. 149, 199-200.
- ^ Damon-Moore, Helen(1994), Magazines for the millions: gender and commerce in the 'Ladies' Home Journal' and 'The Saturday Evening Post', State University of New York Press, p. 18.
- ^ Hebert, Richard A. Modern Maine: Its Historic Background People and Resources, Vol. II, p. 396. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1951.