![]() ![]() This group restored homes, shops, churches, and monuments built barracks for the homeless provided seed and livestock established medical dispensaries, clinics, rest houses, and traveling canteens for soldiers and provided training for the disabled, along with schools, libraries, and summer camps. After the war, along with Anne Murray Dike, Morgan founded the American Committee for Devastated France. During this time she also became very active with the American Fund for French Wounded and would remain so for the rest of her life. ![]() ![]() With the outbreak of WWI Morgan established a home for the wounded staffed by international volunteers and paid local workers. In 1915 she was awarded a medal by the US National Institute of Social Sciences for her contributions to the field. In 1912 she began her first organized forays into public relief by co-founding the Society for the Prevention of Useless Gift Giving. In addition to these social activities, beginning in 1910 Morgan worked as an activist for workers unions. Also in 1903 she worked with other wealthy heiresses such as Ann Vanderbilt to found the Colony Club – the first women’s social club in New York City. She hosted a salon at her residence in Versailles beginning in 1903, where “intelligent, self-educated, and educating women … adopted and implemented the values of the Enlightenment.” (Dena Goodman, Republic of Letters). A very active member of the socialite class, Morgan participated in many social and charitable groups. Owing to this she travelled frequently between her villa there and her home of New York City. This upbringing influenced her toward charitable works, and Morgan built significantly on the efforts of her father in helping others through targeted philanthropy during and after both WWI and WWII.Īs early as 1903, Morgan lived and worked in France near the town of Versailles. She is the youngest of four children to parents John Pierpont Morgan and Frances Louisa Tracy Morgan.īeing the daughter of finance magnate John Pierpont Morgan, Anne was educated privately and grew up among the immense wealth amassed by her father. On JAnne Tracy Morgan was born at her family’s country estate, “Cragston”, on the Hudson River at Highland Falls in New York. ![]()
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