Virginia Henry Curtiss (1875 – July 11, 1941) was president of
The Heckscher Foundation for Children
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and was a member of
New York City
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's Child Welfare Board.
Biography
She was born in 1875 in
Vienna
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and educated in
England
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.
[ She married widower Edwin Burr Curtiss, of A. G. Spalding Bros. Curtiss commissioned the architects ]Carrère and Hastings
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, who had also designed the original clubhouse for the Greenwich Country Club, to build him a house on North Street in Greenwich, Connecticut
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. Curtiss died at his residence in Mountain Lake, Florida
Mountain Lake is a private community north of the City of Lake Wales, Florida, United States. It was founded in 1915 and contains a golf course designed in 1916 by Seth Raynor.
Mountain Lake is located in the ridge country of Central Florida, and ...
, on March 30, 1928
After his death, 55 year old Virginia married 81 year old August Heckscher on July 2, 1930, in the parsonage of the Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church in Croton-on-Hudson, New York
Croton-on-Hudson is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 8,327 at the 2020 United States census over 8,070 at the 2010 census. It is located in the town of Cortlandt as part of New York City's northern subur ...
. August Heckscher, who was born in Hamburg
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, Germany
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, died on April 26, 1941, at their home in Mountain Lake, Florida and left his widow $10,000 and all his real estate
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. She died less than three months later on July 11, 1941.[ No ]legatee
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Usage
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could be found that was named in her will and the probate court
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declared an earlier copy of the will as valid. Part of her art collection was donated to an armed forces art program.
References
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1875 births
1941 deaths
Austrian philanthropists
Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States
Expatriates from Austria-Hungary in the United Kingdom