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Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson Hearst (December 3, 1842 – April 13, 1919) was an American philanthropist, feminist and suffragist. Hearst was the founder of the University of California Museum of Anthropology, now called the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and the co-founder of the National Parent-Teacher Association.
Learn about Phoebe Apperson Hearst, a philanthropist, feminist and anthropology supporter who founded the Museum in 1901. Discover her life, achievements and collections of 60,000 objects from around the world.
Phoebe Apperson Hearst died in 1919, a victim of the worldwide influenza epidemic of 1918-1919. Phoebe Apperson Hearst was born 1842 in Franklin County, Missouri. Before marrying her distant cousin, 41 year-old George Hearst at the age of 19, Miss Apperson worked as a teacher in area schools.
Phoebe Hearst, wife of George Hearst, one of mining’s most notable successes, was truly the great “First Lady” of mining. From the day of their marriage in 1862, she immersed herself in helping George with his work: mining and prospecting.
Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842–1919) was the mother of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst. She was a philanthropist and art collector. Very passionate about education, she was instrumental in making the University of California at Berkeley the illustrious institution it was at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Dec 1, 2019 · Phoebe Apperson Hearst explores the thinking and strategies of a middle-class border-state girl as she became an influential Gilded Age philanthropist.
If any woman could be called an American Cinderella, it is Mrs Hearst, who went from extremely modest circumstances in the backwoods of Missouri to the pinnacle of American wealth and influence, even gaining entre to the royal circles of Europe.
