Eleanor Silliman Belknap Humphrey
| Eleanor Silliman Belknap Humphrey | |
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Eleanor Silliman Belknap Humphrey
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| Born |
April 18, 1876 Louisville, Kentucky, United States |
| Died | September 7, 1964 Coconut Grove, Florida |
| Resting place | Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Vassar |
| Occupation | Artist, writer, genealogist |
| Spouse(s) | Lewis Craig Humphrey |
| Children |
Edward Cornelius Humphrey Alice Humphrey Morgan William Humphrey |
| Parent(s) |
William Richardson Belknap Alice Trumbull Silliman |
Eleanor Silliman Belknap Humphrey (1876–1964) was an American artist, genealogist, writer, socialite, and philanthropist born in Louisville, Kentucky. She was the daughter of William Richardson Belknap, president of Louisville's Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company, and his first wife Alice Trumbull Silliman.
When Eleanor Silliman Belknap was born on April 28, 1876, in Louisville, Kentucky, her father, William Richardson Belknap was 27 and her mother, Alice Trumbull Silliman (daughter of Benjamin Silliman, Jr. and Susan Huldah Forbes), was 29. Eleanor lived at Lincliff, a home built in the early 1910s by her father.
Both Eleanor and her sister Alice attended Vassar College, then a women's college. Eleanor wrote short stories and anecdotes for the early version of The Miscellany News. She planned skits for campus performances and wrote essays, plays, and poems. She was selected salutatorian of her Vassar class. Although a mathematics major at Vassar, she wrote her salutatory address about modern art. She participated in intramural sports and is mentioned in a book about the evolution of women's sports in American colleges. The author Louise Mead Tricard wrote in 1996 about American women's track and field from 1895 through 1980, using as a resource the Vassar College Library archives of scrapbooks kept by former Vassar students. Eleanor Belknap Humphrey's scrapbook is cited as one of the references in the bibliography (page 666 of 746 pages) of Tricard's book.
Eleanor Belknap Humphrey was a donor of art to the Speed Museum and gave archives and artifacts to the Filson Club. She and her sister Alice were among the private sponsors of a large two-volume history of American architecture which was a Works Projects Administration (WPA) project.
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