 1907 - 1991 (83 years)
Generation: 1
| 1. | Emily Fairfax Coolidge was born on 13 Oct 1907 in Boston, Suffolk Co., MA (daughter of Harold Jefferson Coolidge and Edith Lawrence); died on 5 Jun 1991 in Manhattan, New York, NY; was buried in Saint Matthews Episcopal Churchyard, Bedford, New York. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: New York, NY; Development executive, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
- FindAGrave URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209068791
- FindAGrave ID: 209068791
- FamilySearch ID: LTFL-NDG
- FamilySearch URL: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LTFL-NDG
Notes:
J. Spencer Howell & Peter Howell note: She is from the well known Coolidge family and related to Benjamin Franklin. She has a letter written by Ben Franklin to his granddaughter giving her advice on growing up. (*not* of the Calvin Coolidge line!)
http://www.moma.org/about_moma/history/index.html
In the late 1920s, three progressive and influential patrons of the arts, Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., perceived a need to challenge the conservative policies of traditional museums and to establish an institution devoted exclusively to modern art. When The Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1929, its founding Director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., intended the Museum to be dedicated to helping people understand and enjoy the visual arts of our time, and that it might provide New York with "the greatest museum of modern art in the world."
New York Times obituary published: Saturday, June 8, 1991:
"Emily C. Stone, Museum Official, 83 - Emily Coolidge Stone, a former director of membership at the Museum of Modern Art, died on Wednesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 83 years old. She died after a stroke, her daughter said. Before joining the museum in 1947 she was a research assistant for the Office of Strategic Services. Mrs. Stone, who attended Radcliffe College, was a director of the France-America Society and a member of the Museum of Modern Art International Council and the International Council of Museums. A widow, she is survived by her daughter, Edith Woodruff Kunhardt of Manhattan, four grandchildren and four great-granchildren."
(Research):Lee J. Howell said she donated a letter box from Benjamin Franklin to a museum.
Family/Spouse: Harry Adsit Woodruf. Harry was born on 29 Jan 1903 in Fort Wright, Kenton Co., KY; died on 12 Jan 1952 in New York, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- E. Woodruff
Emily married Thomas Archibald Stone on 17 Nov 1962. Thomas (son of Spencer Stone, "Pen" and Flora Maud Campbell) was born on 12 Dec 1900 in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada; died on 26 Jul 1965 in Recloses, Departement de Seine-et-Marne, Īle-de-France, France; was buried in St. Matthew's Episcopal Churchyard, Bedford, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 2
| 2. | Harold Jefferson Coolidge was born on 22 Jan 1870 in France; died on 31 Jul 1934 in Squam Lake, Grafton Co., NH. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: Lawyer
- FamilySearch ID: LH7R-4Y1
- FamilySearch URL: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LH7R-4Y1
- Education: 1892; Harvard University
Harold married Edith Lawrence on 19 Feb 1903. Edith was born on 10 Nov 1879 in Boston, Suffolk Co., MA; died on 10 Apr 1975 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 3. | Edith Lawrence was born on 10 Nov 1879 in Boston, Suffolk Co., MA; died on 10 Apr 1975 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- FamilySearch ID: LZZB-FK4
- FamilySearch URL: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZZB-FK4
Children:
- 1. Emily Fairfax Coolidge was born on 13 Oct 1907 in Boston, Suffolk Co., MA; died on 5 Jun 1991 in Manhattan, New York, NY; was buried in Saint Matthews Episcopal Churchyard, Bedford, New York.
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