Helen Miller Shepard
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- "Helen Gould" redirects here. For her niece, the socialite and philanthropist, see Helen Vivien Gould.
Helen Miller Shepard (1868 – December 1938) was an American philanthropist born in Manhattan in New York City.
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[edit] Birth
Born as Helen Miller Gould she was the first born daughter of Jay Gould and Helen Day Miller (1838-1889).
[edit] Marriage
She attended NYU School of Law and in 1913 she married Finlay Johnson Shepard (1867-1942). They adopted three children and had one foster child. The foster child was a three-year-old abandoned child that was found on the steps of Manhattan's St Patrick's Cathedral in 1914. They later adopted two daughters of her brother Frank Gould.
[edit] American Bible Society
In 1918 she and Emma Baker Kennedy (c1833-1930) became the first female vice presidents of the American Bible Society.
[edit] Philanthropy
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 adiitional US$50,000 toward military hospital supplies and worked 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 the YMCA and the YWCA benefitted from her contributions, as well as other organizations.
[edit] References
- Time; January 02, 1939; "Useful Daughter"
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