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About Anne Mills Archbold
source: http://gloverparkhistory.com/estates-and-farms/hillandale/anne-arch...
Anne Archbold was a world traveler, with houses in England, Maine, and Nassau, was the daughter of a Pennsylvania oil millionaire. Her father, John Dustin Archbold (1848-1916) founded Acme Oil Company, was bought out by Rockefeller circa 1875. Investigated in 1879, he described his role in the Standard Oil: “I am a clamorer after dividends.“ When asked how large these were, he said, “I have no trouble transporting my share“ In 1882 he was a founding trustee of the Standard Trust. In 1911 became a director of Standard Oil of NJ. (Robert Heilbroner, in American Heritage) Anne Archbold was painted by Frederick MacMonnies in 1903 (Comenos Fine Arts, Boston; Cornish Colony Gallery) In 1906, Anne married Armar Dayrolles Saunderson of Castle Saunderson, Ireland. In 1922, divorced, came to DC and bought land on Reservoir Road. Hillandale built 1922-1925. Archbold used Hillandale to train German shepherds as police dogs and seeing–eye dogs. National Woman’s Party, and joined a delegation to lobby President Warren G. Harding on behalf of the Equal Rights Amendment. Circa 1923-1929: charitable support of occupational therapy and social welfare departments, Gallinger Hospital (Green, Constance, II:321) 1924 gave 23 acres to be added to a gift by Charles Carroll Glover, to form Glover-Archbold Parkway (Park Offered Capital As Gift By Mrs. Archbold, Star, October 23, 1924, p.19) The Parkway had a 100-foot right-of-way for the construction of a road marked Arizona Avenue on some maps. This apparently seemed benign to the donors in 1924, when there were fewer cars. But after World War II plans to exercise a right of way through the park began to go forward, and conjured up visions of a commuter artery. Archbold opposed this: “It is beautifully wooded, with a wealth of wild flowers and bird life. Quiet pathways lead down its sides along the meandering creek bed with its sycamore-tulip tangles, furnishing restful retreats for adults and fascinating children. Such a beautiful park cannot be eliminated if Washington is to grow as a living organism with its parts in proper balance.” (“Glover-Archbold Parkway”, Washington Post, May 30, 1953) In 1967 the government of the District of Columbia surrendered the right-of-way through the Glover-Archbold Park. (“Freeway Idea Killed as City Gives Up Glover-Archbold Corridor”, Washington Post, January 13, 1967, B3) Anne Archbold died at Nassau, 1968: “It was my purpose that the beautiful wooded valley be preserved perpetually for the benefit and pleasure of the public. It should remain and be enjoyed by all as a natural sanctuary.” (“Park Donor Anne Archbold, 94, Dies”, Washington Post, March 28, 1968, C14) In 1971 her executor won an additional victory: 444 F.2d 1120 – Anne Archbold, by John D. Archbold, Executor of the Estate of Anne Archbold, Deceased v. the United States, United States Court of Claims, July 14, 1971: “Involved is the deductibility, as a charitable contribution, of legal fees paid by the taxpayer to a private law firm for the firm’s services in opposing highway construction through land which the taxpayer had earlier given to the United States for park purposes.”
(from Farnham Collins): "... she was an extraordinary if eccentric woman who pursued various interests. One of these was to promote the study of tropical flora and fauna, which she did through the commissioning of a large (99 feet) sea going junk, the Cheng Ho, which she then sailed around the Pacific with various scientists on board." One of these scientists was Dr. Fairchild who eventually established the Fairchild Gardens in Florida http://www.fairchildgarden.org/
- see also Glover-archbold Park
- see also Archbold Research Station (Florida)
- see also Springfield Plantation, near Roseau, Dominica
Location(next to the Glover Park section of Georgetown (DC)
The neighborhood's western border is an extension of Rock Creek Park called Glover-Archbold Park (named after Charles Carroll Glover and Anne Mills Archbold, who each donated part of the land). Glover Park's northern border is Fulton Street, near the Washington National Cathedral, and its southern border is Whitehaven Park, another branch of Rock Creek Park, and beyond that the Burleith neighborhood. To the east of the neighborhood lies Woodley Park, and to the north is Cathedral Heights.
Anne Archbold had numerous estates both in the US and abroad. Her inherited fortune survives to the modern era. A fortune of such size often inspires criticism such as the characterization by Lucius Beebe who described her as one who "strove valiantly to stem the flow of spending money deriving from Standard Oil from going down the rat hole of good works", an hilarious claim though not entirely accurate.
see Lost Bar Harbor p. 78 isbn 0-89272-142-1 (1982)
see also Arthur Train's novel "His Children's Children" (said to have ben based on Ms. Archbold's life)
• Birth: Nov. 24, 1873 Death: Mar. 26, 1968
Burial: Ivy Hill Cemetery Upperville Fauquier County Virginia, USA (near what was her son John's "Foxlease Farm") The stone marker has an incorrect date of deat of her ex-husband "Saunderson, Anne Mills Archbold, Born November 24, 1873 Titusville Pennsylvania, Wife of Amar Dayrolles Saunderson, 1906-1922, Died March 26, 1968 Nassau N.P. Bahamas Mother of Lydia, Armar, John, Moira"
Saunderson died in 1952,,,
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Anne Mills Archbold's Timeline
| 1873 |
November 24, 1873
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New York, New York, New York, United States
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| 1907 |
February 26, 1907
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Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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February 13, 1909
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| 1911 |
July 9, 1911
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March 26, 1968
Age 94
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Nassau, New Providence, The Bahamas (Bahamas)
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