Mary Harriman Rumsey
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| Born |
Mary Harriman November 17, 1881 New York City, United States |
| Died |
December 18, 1934 (aged 53) Washington, D.C., United States |
| Cause of death | Horseback riding accident |
| Resting place | St. John's Church Cemetery, Arden, New York |
| Residence | Wheatley Hills, Long Island, New York, Middleburg, Virginia |
| Education | Barnard College |
| Occupation | Chair of the Consumer Advisory Board, National Recovery Administration |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Charles Cary Rumsey |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) |
E.H. Harriman Mary Averell |
| Relatives |
W. Averell Harriman (brother) E. Roland Harriman (brother) |
Mary Harriman Rumsey (November 17, 1881 – December 18, 1934) was the founder of The Junior League for the Promotion of Settlement Movements, later known as the Junior League of the City of New York of the Association of Junior Leagues International Inc. Mary was the daughter of railroad magnate E.H. Harriman and sister to W. Averell Harriman, former New York State Governor and United States Diplomat. In 2015 she was posthumously inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Mary Harriman Rumsey was born on November 17, 1881, the oldest of six children of railroad industrialist E.H. Harriman (1848–1909) and his wife, Mary Averell Harriman (1851–1932).
Her siblings were Henry Neilson Harriman (1883-1888), Cornelia Harriman (1884-1966), who married Robert Livingston Gerry (1877-1957), Carol Averell Harriman (1889-1948), who married R. Penn Smith in 1917. After his death in 1929, she married W. Plunket Stewart, a racing stable owner in 1930,William Averell Harriman (1891-1986), who in 1955 became the Governor of New York and who married Kitty Lanier Lawrence, then Marie Norton Whitney (1903–1970), and lastly to Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward (1920–1997), and Edward Roland Noel Harriman (1895-1978), who married Gladys Fries (1896–1983).
Mary attended Barnard College, where she specialized in sociology and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Inspired by a lecture on the settlement movement, Mary, along with several friends, began volunteering at the College Settlement on Rivington Street in New York City's Lower East Side, a large immigrant enclave. Through her work at the College Settlement, Mary became convinced that there was more she could do to help others. Subsequently, Mary and a group of 80 debutantes established the Junior League for the Promotion of Settlement Movements in 1901, while she was still a student at Barnard College. The purpose of the Junior League would be to unite interested debutantes in joining the Settlement Movement in New York City.
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