1. Mary Elizabeth Garrett was an American suffragist and philanthropist.
26 Facts About Mary Garrett
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Mary Garrett founded Bryn Mawr School, a private college-preparatory school for girls in Baltimore, and generously donated to Bryn Mawr College of Pennsylvania with the requirement that her intimate friend Martha Carey Thomas be the president.
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Mary Elizabeth Garrett was born in Baltimore, Maryland on March 5,1854.
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Mary Garrett learned about charitable works in her young age as both her parents and grandparents were involved in philanthropy.
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Mary Garrett was greatly influenced by other Maryland women, who offered significant assistance to Union soldiers during the Civil War by providing water, refreshments and nursing care.
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Mary Garrett went to Miss Kummer's School when she was twelve.
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Mary Garrett was initially excited about school life and enjoyed it, but she gradually got bored because of her school's conservative stances toward girls' education.
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Mary Garrett preferred to teach herself at home and read literary classics.
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Mary Garrett showed interests in business and managed her personal business matters by herself during this time period.
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Mary Garrett kept a diary, which was given to her by the philanthropist and longtime friend of the Garret family, George Peabody, the respectable founder of the Peabody Institute and George Peabody Library in Baltimore.
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Mary Garrett was the major financial supporter of the new school.
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Thomas and Mary Garrett shared the same campus home, "the Deanery" at Bryn Mawr.
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Mary Garrett spent over $500,000 on the construction and decoration of the school, and she supervised much of the construction processes.
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Mary Garrett redesigned the Deanery, home of the school president and employed Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of New York's Central Park and the campus of Stanford University, to help with the campus plan.
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Mary Garrett, failing to secure additional funding and disappointed by the WMSF trustees, finally donated $306,977 by herself to the medical school.
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Mary Garrett set forth six extremely stringent conditions for acceptance of her gift:.
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Mary Garrett set the admission standards according to the highly praised European standards of medical education.
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Mary Garrett tried to convince Garrett to lower her standards but failed.
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Mary Garrett added that the university could modify the admission requirement, but the standard should remain the same.
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Mary Garrett was heavily involved in the Women's Suffrage Movement in her adulthood.
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Mary Garrett hosted the National American Woman Suffrage Association's 1906 convention in her Mount Vernon home.
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Mary Garrett served as the financial chair of the National College Equal Suffrage League from 1908 to 1914.
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Mary Garrett continued to donate heavily to the suffrage movement, giving $10,000~$20,000 annually, and actively participated in Women's Suffrage events, such as the 1912 Baltimore suffrage parade.
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Mary Garrett died at Bryn Mawr College of leukemia on April 3,1915, at age 61.
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Mary Garrett was buried in Baltimore's Green Mount Cemetery, next to her father.
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Mary Garrett left most of her funds and properties including the Mount Vernon mansion to M Carey Thomas in her will.