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Their children were Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and Nicholas Benjamin Duke Biddle. She and her husband owned an estate, "Linden Court", in Tarrytown, New York, bought from the William R. Harris family in 1921. It still stands today as the Tarrytown House Estate and Conference Center. She established the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation in 1956.
9 de jul. de 2012 · Abstract. A memorial essay for Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, philanthropist and patron of the history of medicine.
28 de ene. de 2012 · Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans DURHAM -- Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, a lifelong philanthropist and civic leader in North Carolina, died on January 25, 2012, in Durham. She was 91. Mrs. Semans dev
She was the daughter of Mary Duke Biddle and Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. A 1968 article in the Sunday Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel noted that she and Doris Duke were cousins, and while Mrs. Semans was “probably one of the wealthiest women in the state … no one would know it from dealing with her.
27 de ene. de 2012 · Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans DURHAM -- Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, a lifelong philanthropist and civic leader in North Carolina, died on January 25, 2012, in Durham. She was 91.
25 de ene. de 2012 · History Groves. - Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans. (February 21, 1920 – January 25, 2012) Mother, activist, politician, and philanthropist, Mary was the granddaughter of Benjamin N. Duke and the great-granddaughter of Washington Duke. In 1951, Mary Semans was the first woman elected to the Durham City Council, and she served as mayor pro-tem ...
17 de dic. de 2018 · James Semans, 61, of Chapel Hill died Monday morning. James was the husband of Margaret W. Rich; son of the late Dr. James Husted Semans and Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans of Durham: and great-grandson of Benjamin Duke. He attended grammar school at Durham Academy and is a graduate of the Hill School in Pottstown, PA.
