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About Margaret Rockefeller de Cuevas
Margaret Rockefeller Strong de Larraín, Marquesa de Cuevas
- Margaret Rockefeller Strong's Wikipedia Page
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Margaret Rockefeller Strong was an American heiress and prominent member of the Rockefeller family. She was the maternal granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller and his wife Laura Spelman Rockefeller.
Early Life and Education
She was the daughter of Elizabeth "Bessie" Rockefeller (1866–1906) and Dr. Charles Augustus Strong (1862–1940). Her maternal grandfather was Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937).
Career
Margaret saved a row of Neo-Federal townhouses on Park Avenue designed by McKim, Mead & White from destruction by purchasing the property and giving one of the townhouses to the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute in 1965. She then donated the corner townhouse to her cousin, David Rockefeller, who there founded the Center for Inter-American Relations, now the Americas Society. In December 1979, Margaret donated her father's estate, Villa Le Balze in Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy to Georgetown University which operates an overseas campus there.
Her life can be read at "El Inútil de la Familia," a book written by Jorge Edwards, a Chilean writer.
Personal Life
She married Chilean ballet businessman George de Cuevas on August 3, 1927. They had two children;
- Elizabeth de Cuevas (1929-2023) who married Joel Carmichael, a writer, in 1960. They had one daughter; Deborah Carmichael.
- John de Cuevas (October 6, 1930 - December 6, 2018), an educator and philanthropist, who married three times. His first marriage to his boyhood sweetheart Phyllis Nahl Van Wyck was in 1951. He remarried in April 1962 to Silvia Maria Bartucci having one daughter; Margaret de Cuevas and two granddaughters. In 1988, he married a third time to Sue Lonoff.
After her first husband, George de Cuevas, died in 1961, she married Raymundo de Larraín Valdés (1935–1988) in 1977. There was a fight about her estate which ended in a court settlement in 1987.
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Margaret Rockefeller Strong de Cuevas was an American activist. Cuevas was the daughter of Elizabeth Rockefeller Strong (1866–1906) and her husband Dr. Charles Augustus Strong (1862–1940). Her maternal grandfather was Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937). She married Jorge Cuevas Bartholín, a Chilean ballet businessman around 1929; they had two children. After his death, she married Raymundo de Larraín Valdés (1935-1988) in 1977. Cuevas saved a row of Neo-Federal townhouses on Park Avenue designed by McKim, Mead & White from destruction by purchasing the property and giving one of the townhouses to the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute in 1965. She then donated the corner townhouse to her cousin, David Rockefeller, who founded the Center for Inter-American Relations there. In December 1979, Margaret donated her father's estate, Villa Le Balze in Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy to Georgetown University which operates an overseas campus there.The Marques de Cuevas's life can be read at "El Inútil de la Familia", book written by Jorge Edwards, a Chilean writer. Children
Elisabeth Strong Cuevas John de Cuevas
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Margaret Rockefeller de Cuevas's Timeline
| 1897 |
June 11, 1897
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Pocantico Hills, Westchester County, New York, United States
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| 1929 |
January 22, 1929
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Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France
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| 1931 |
1931
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| 1985 |
December 2, 1985
Age 88
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Madrid, Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
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