Marquise "Mary Gwendoline Byrd" de Merinville

A major building at Catholic University is named for Mary Guendaline (also spelled Gwendoline) Byrd Caldwell (1863-1909), a major donor to the university and one of the "Caldwell Sisters" memorialized with a spectacular and well-known monument at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, where they are buried.

Mary Guendaline gave $300,000 for the divinity school housed the Caldwell Building at the university, according to the Encyclopedia of Louisville. As Wiser tells it, she gave initial funding for the university and was responsible for its founding.

She and her sister, Mary Elizabeth Breckinridge Caldwell (1865-1910), were the daughters of businessman William Shakespeare Caldwell, one of Louisville's first millionaires by the late 1850s, and his wife, Mary Eliza Breckinridge Caldwell.

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