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Helen Miller Shepard ( 1868 – December 1938 ) was an American Philanthropist born in Manhattan in New York City . BIRTH Born as Helen Miller Gould she was the first born daughter of Jay Gould and Helen Day Miller (1838-1889). MARRIAGE She attended NYU School Of Law and in 1913 she married Finlay Johnson Shepard (1867-1942). They adopted three children and had one foster child. The foster child was a three-year-old abandoned child that was found on the steps of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1914. They later adopted two daughters of her brother Frank Gould. AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY In 1918 she and Emma Baker Kennedy (c1833-1930) became the first female vice presidents of the American Bible Society . PHILANTHROPY At the commencement of the Spanish-American War , she donated US$ 100,000 to the United States government in support of the war. She gave an adiitional US$ 50,000 toward military hospital supplies and worked in a hospital for wounded soldiers. She donated the library building at New York University and began the Hall Of Fame . She gave US$ 10,000 for the engineering school. She gave additional contributions to Rutgers College. Both the YMCA and the YWCA benefitted from her contributions, as well as other organizations. REFERENCES
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