April 5, 2007
Profile of a Philanthropist, the Widow of a Businessman
NEW BOOKS
Mrs. Russell Sage: Women's Activism and Philanthropy in
Gilded Age and Progressive Era America
by Ruth Crocker
After Russell Sage, a financier who had a reputation as a robber baron, died in 1906, his wife, Olivia, embarked on a career as a philanthropist. She endowed a foundation with $75-million — worth $1.5-billion today — to create the Russell Sage Foundation.
But though she remained hidden
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