Background
Morgan was educated privately, traveled frequently and grew up amongst the wealth her father had amassed. She was born on July 25, 1873 to John Pierpont Morgan and Frances Louisa Tracy.
cultural organization administrator
Morgan was educated privately, traveled frequently and grew up amongst the wealth her father had amassed. She was born on July 25, 1873 to John Pierpont Morgan and Frances Louisa Tracy.
Educated private schools. Doctor of Humane Letters, Russell Sage College, 1935.
She was awarded a medal from the National Institute of Social Science in 1915, the same year she published the story The American Girl. In 1932 she became the first American woman appointed a commander of the French Legion of Honor. In 1903 she became part owner of the Villa Trianon near Versailles, France, along with decorator and socialite Elsie De Wolfe and theatrical/literary agent Elisabeth Marbury. was instrumental in assisting De Wolfe, her close friend, in pioneering a career in interior decoration.
The three women, known as "The Versailles Triumvirate," hosted a salon in France and, in 1903, along with Ann Vanderbilt, helped organize the Colony Club, the first women"s social club in New York City and, later, helped found the exclusive neighborhood of Sutton Place along Manhattan"s East River.
C. 1910 she became a union activist. In 1912 she started the Society for the Prevention of Useless Gift Giving (SPUG) with Eleanor Robson Belmont.
In 1916, and De Wolfe largely funded Cole Porter"s first Broadway musical, See America First, produced by Marbury. From 1917 to 1921 took residence near the French front, not far from both Soissons and the "Chemin des Dames" at Blérancourt, and ran a formidable help organisation, The American Friends of France (it employed several hundred people at a time, volunteers from abroad and locally recruited staff), financed partly out of her own deep pockets, partly with the help of an active network in the States.
The AFF was active in succoring noncombatants, organizing a health service that still exists in Soissons, a workshop to provide basic furniture to bombed-out families, a holiday camp for children, and a mobile library that was taken over by the library in Soissons, and so on.
She returned in 1939 to help the Soissons evacuees. "s friendships included many socialites and celebrities of her day. Her connection to individuals such as Cole Porter, as mentioned above, allowed her to compile a cookbook for charity.
Titled the Spécialités de la Maison and published in 1940 to benefit the AFF, it offered recipes by cultural icons such as Pearl South. Buck, Salvador Dalí, and Katharine Hepburn.
She died on January 29, 1952 in Mount Kisco, New New York A four-story townhouse built in the Sutton Place neighborhood of Manhattan"s Upper East Side in New York City for Anne in 1921 was donated as a gift to the United Nations in 1972.
lieutenant is now the official residence of the United Nations Secretary-General.
Member numerous philanthropic, civic organizations Member Les Amis du Musee de Blerancourt, Aisne, France. Founder and honorary president American Friends of France.
Clubs: Colony, Woman’s National Republican.