Grace Carley Harriman (1873–1950) was an American social leader and philanthropist. Widely known as Mrs. Oliver Harriman, she was a member of the wealthy Harriman family, the wife of investment banker Oliver Harriman Jr. A native of

Louisville, Kentucky Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border ...

, she was a co-founder and president of the National Conference on Legalizing Lotteries, a president of the

Camp Fire Girls Camp Fire, formerly Camp Fire USA and originally Camp Fire Girls of America, is a co-ed youth development organization. Camp Fire was the first nonsectarian, multicultural organization for girls in America. It is gender inclusive, and its prog ...

, and a member of the Southern Women's Democratic Club. During World War I she established a food research and conservation laboratory. She was a writer on social topics and author of the 1942

etiquette Etiquette () is the set of norms of personal behaviour in polite society, usually occurring in the form of an ethical code of the expected and accepted social behaviours that accord with the conventions and norms observed and practised by a ...

book ''Mrs. Oliver Harriman's Book of Etiquette: A Modern Guide to the Best Social Form''.

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* 1873 births 1950 deaths American philanthropists Harriman family People from Louisville, Kentucky American women philanthropists Social leaders {{Philanthropist-stub