Abigail Aldrich Rockefeller Mauzé (November 9, 1903 – May 27, 1976) was an American philanthropist. She was the daughter of American philanthropists John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller as well as a granddaughter of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller.
Family background
Abigail was the first child and only daughter of philanthropists John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abigail Greene "Abby" Aldrich. She was commonly referred to as "Babs" to avoid confusion with her mother. She attended both the Chapin School and the Brearley School in New York City.
Philanthropy
She and her five brothers carried on the Rockefeller family tradition of philanthropy stemming back to their paternal grandparents, Standard Oil co-founder John Davison Rockefeller Sr. and schoolteacher Laura Celestia "Cettie" Spelman.
- Abigail Rockefeller Simpson (b. 1958), who married Todd Mydland.
In 1946, she began her second marriage, to Dr. Irving H. Pardee (1892–1949), a neurologist and brother of cardiologist Harold E. B. Pardee. After his death in 1949, she married Jean Mauzé (1903–1974), a banker, on April 23, 1953. They remained married until his death on January 7, 1974.
Rockefeller owned property in Bermuda, the Roman Corporation at One Beekman Place in New York City, and the Pocantico family estate, Kykuit, in Westchester County, New York.
She died on May 27, 1976, due to cancer, at her apartment in New York City.
See also
- Rockefeller family
Further reading
- Abby Rockefeller Mauzé, 1903-1976, About the Rockefellers, Rockefeller Archive Center
- Memoirs, David Rockefeller, New York: Random House, 2002.
- Abby Rockefeller Mauzé papers, 1905-1975, DIMES: The Online Collection and Catalog of Rockefeller Archive Center