Mary Babcock, daughter of Richard Joshua Reynolds, founder of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Mary Katharine Smith Reynolds, attended a private school at Reynolda, the family estate, and later, Salem Academy and Miss Wright's School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. After she graduated, she spent time in Paris studying art. She married Charles Henry Babcock, an investment banker from Philadelphia. They lived in Greenwich, Connecticut and then moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1934, when she acquired Reynolda. In 1936, she inherited $30 million from her father. In 1951, she gave 300 acres at Reynolda to Wake Forest College, in Winston-Salem, where it is located today. After retirement, she enjoyed a limited circle of friends and collected recipes and grew flowers, but her primary interest was philanthropy. She died of stomach cancer.
Upon her death in 1953, her will provided twelve million dollars for the establishment of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, a philanthropic organization for the benefit of North Carolinians, particularly to "help people and places to move out of poverty and achieve greater social and economic justice."
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Upon her death in 1953, her will provided twelve million dollars for the establishment of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, a philanthropic organization for the benefit of North Carolinians, particularly to "help people and places to move out of poverty and achieve greater social and economic justice."
https://www.MRBF.org
Mary Babcock, daughter of Richard Joshua Reynolds, founder of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Mary Katharine Smith Reynolds, attended a private school at Reynolda, the family estate, and later, Salem Academy and Miss Wright's School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. After she graduated, she spent time in Paris studying art. She married Charles Henry Babcock, an investment banker from Philadelphia. They lived in Greenwich, Connecticut and then moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1934, when she acquired Reynolda. In 1936, she inherited $30 million from her father. In 1951, she gave 300 acres at Reynolda to Wake Forest College, in Winston-Salem, where it is located today. After retirement, she enjoyed a limited circle of friends and collected recipes and grew flowers, but her primary interest was philanthropy. She died of stomach cancer.
Upon her death in 1953, her will provided twelve million dollars for the establishment of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, a philanthropic organization for the benefit of North Carolinians, particularly to "help people and places to move out of poverty and achieve greater social and economic justice."
https://www.MRBF.org
Upon her death in 1953, her will provided twelve million dollars for the establishment of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, a philanthropic organization for the benefit of North Carolinians, particularly to "help people and places to move out of poverty and achieve greater social and economic justice."
https://www.MRBF.org
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MARY · REYNOLDS · BABCOCK
AVGUST · THE · EIGHTH · NINETEEN · HVNDRED
AND · EIGHT · JVLY · THE · SEVENTEENTH
NINETEEN · HVNDRED · AND · FIFTY · THREE
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