Mary Flagler Cary

Mary Flagler Cary (1901-1967) was heir to part of the Standard Oil fortune and became a notable philanthropist, mainly through the charitable trust established at her death. She was the granddaughter of Henry Morrison Flagler, one of the founders of Standard Oil, and inherited 20,000 shares of Standard Oil from her father Harry Harkness Flagler^[1] on his death in 1952 (valued then at $1,600,000). She had married Melbert Cary, who died in 1941.

Mrs Cary and her husband were significant collectors. Their main acquisitions were music manuscripts, playing cards, and the work of great printers. Mrs Cary also built a collection of trees on her large estate at Millbrook, New York (now the Mary Flagler Cary Arboretum).

The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust was established at her death. It has donated major collections as follows:

• The Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection at the Wallace Library[1], Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York.
• The Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection at the Morgan Library, New York City, New York.
• The Cary Collection of Playing Cards at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

The Trust now expects to wind up its remaining work in 2009.

See also

• Flagler Museum founded by Mary's sister, Jean Flagler Matthews.

Notes

1. ^ Harry Harkness Flagler on a local information website ("Dr Bronson and Friends") for City of St Augustine, FL accessed June 13, 2006

External links

• Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust

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Name	Cary, Mary Flagler
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Date of birth	1901
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Date of death	1967
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