Background
Born as Lila Bell Acheson in Virden, Manitoba, Canada, her father was a Presbyterian minister who brought his family to the United States of America when she was a child, and she grew up in the Midwest.
Born as Lila Bell Acheson in Virden, Manitoba, Canada, her father was a Presbyterian minister who brought his family to the United States of America when she was a child, and she grew up in the Midwest.
In 1917, she graduated from the University of Oregon, located in Eugene, Oregon, taught at schools for two years, and then worked for the Young Women"s Christian Association.
She also studied at Ward–Belmont College in Nashville, Tennessee. Philanthropy In her lifetime, she made philanthropic contributions estimated at $60 million. She died from heart failure, age 94, in Mount Kisco, New New York