Morgan, Anne, , New York 1873 1952 Female Promoter Relief Organizer organizer of relief work in France during two world wars and supporter of women's club services in the United States, was born on her family's country estate in Highland Falls, N. Y. , the third daughter of John Pierpont Morgan and Frances Louisa Tracy Morgan.
She was raised in the midst of baronial splendor and educated in private schools in New York and at home.
Morgan was nearly thirty before she emerged from her secluded world.
Marbury wrote in her memoirs that "there was something pathetic about this splendid girl, full of vitality and eagerness, yet who, as the youngest of a large family, had never been allowed to grow up. "
In 1903, with Marbury, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, and others, she helped found the Colony Club, the first social club for women in New York.
By 1917 Morgan had entered into the work for which she became internationally famous--the relief and reconstruction of war-torn France.
The organization found homes for more than 50, 000 homeless villagers and supplied feed, livestock, and farm implements for the reconstruction of farms.
By May 1939, convinced that a new war in Europe was inevitable, Morgan formed a new committee, the American Friends of France.
By the time war was declared, the committee had forty-five workers actively operating three relief centers for the aid of civilians evacuated from areas close to the Maginot Line.
Morgan stayed on in France through the bombings, directing the evacuation of war refugees and the feeding and sheltering of noncombatants.
She was forced to leave France in 1940 but she returned frequently after the war to supervise the relief work.
She said, 'I believe in the true aristocracy which realizes that it has inherited something magnificent, with the obligation to carry it on. '"
[There is no biography of Anne Morgan; the most comprehensive account of her activities appears in Current Biography, 1946, pp. 412-414, while the best collection of photographs is in the obituary article in Life (Feb. 11, 1952), p. 28.
Both Elizabeth Marbury, My Crystal Ball (1923), and Margaret Leech, New Yorker (Oct. 22, 1927), wrote fragmentary laudatory comments about her work.
She became active in church work, teaching sewing to girls in the parish house of St. George's Episcopal Church, of which Pierpont Morgan was senior warden.
As Time magazine noted: "Like her father and her banker brother, the late J. P. , Anne Morgan made no apologies for her wealth (her father left her a $3 million trust fund), or her station.
