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Phoebe Hearst was born on December 3, 1842, in Franklin County, Missouri, United States. Her parents Randolph Walker Apperson and Drucilla (Whitmire) Apperson were farmers of substantial means.
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Phoebe Hearst was born on December 3, 1842, in Franklin County, Missouri, United States. Her parents Randolph Walker Apperson and Drucilla (Whitmire) Apperson were farmers of substantial means.
Phoebe attended school, intending to become a teacher. Her childhood also consisted of helping her father with finances at the family store, learning French, and how to play the piano.
A brief period of teaching in the public schools preceded Phoebe's marriage on June 15, 1862, to George Hearst, who had returned to Missouri after twelve years in California. By way of Panama they traveled to San Francisco, where they made their home. Soon afterward her parents moved to California, and in 1866, accompanied by her younger brother, Elbert, she visited the Sandwich Islands. A long-cherished wish was realized in 1873, when she went to Europe. It was four years before she again went to Europe, for in 1874-1875 her husband suffered heavy financial losses and for a time she gave up her house in San Francisco.
After her return from her second trip to Europe in the spring of 1880, welfare activities became the marked feature of her life. She gave freely to hospitals and orphan asylums, served upon committees to carry forward their work, and devoted much attention to the establishment of kindergartens. Though particularly interested in San Francisco charities, she provided her later years in libraries and kindergartens in the Utah, Dakota, and Montana mining communities which had grown up around the Hearst properties. The center of her philanthropic work was transferred to Washington, District of Columbia, in 1886. Hearst continued to work at kindergarten and hospital service, but her greatest interest appeared to be in the education of girls, finding expression in the foundation an support of the National Cathedral School for girls.
Upon the death of her husband in 1891 Hearst turned much of her attention to her main properties, yet she continued her former interests, serving as president of the Columbia Free Kindergarten in 1893.
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Phoebe Hearst was a woman of unusual energy, great tenacity of purpose, and remarkable aptitude for philanthropy. She was small of stature, erect and graceful, with much tact and wit. She had a gift for the discovery of talent, encouraged ambition wherever she found it, and made her houses in California centers for the entertainment of interesting figures in the worlds of literature, music, scholarship, and politics.
Phoebe married George Hearst on June 15, 1862. Her only son, William Randolph Hearst, was born in 1863.