- Margaret Rockefeller Strong de Larraín, Marquesa de Cuevas
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Margaret Rockefeller Strong Cuevas (1897-1985) 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.[1]
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
References
Rockefeller family Ancestors Johann Peter Rockefeller (1682–1763, arrived in America ca.1723) • (grandson) William Rockefeller • Godfrey Rockefeller (1745–1818) • Godfrey Lewis Rockefeller (1784–1857) • William Avery RockefellerWilliam Avery Rockefeller (1810–1906) Lucy Rockefeller • John Davison Rockefeller (m.) Laura Celestia Spelman Rockefeller • William Avery Rockefeller, Jr. • Mary Ann Rockefeller • Franklin Rockefeller • Francis RockefellerJohn Davison Rockefeller (1839–1937)
William Rockefeller (1841–1922)Elizabeth "Bessie" Rockefeller Strong • Alice Rockefeller • Alta Rockefeller Prentice • Edith Rockefeller McCormick (m.) Harold Fowler McCormick • John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. (m.) Abigail "Abby" Greene Aldrich
Lewis Edward Rockefeller • Emma Rockefeller McAlpin • William Goodsell Rockefeller • John Davison Rockefeller • Percy Avery Rockefeller • Geraldine Rockefeller DodgeElizabeth Rockefeller Strong (1866–1906)
Alta Rockefeller Prentice (1871–1962)
John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. (1874–1960)
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Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878–1934)
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Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Jr.John Rockefeller Prentice (1902–1972)
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John D. Rockefeller III (1906–1978)
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908–1979)
Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (1910–2004)
Winthrop Rockefeller (1912–1973)
David Rockefeller (1915)
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Robert ModelJay Rockefeller (1937)
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Rodman Rockefeller (1932–2000)
Steven Clark Rockefeller (1936)Categories:- 1897 births
- 1985 deaths
- American philanthropists
- American socialites
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