Word: elkinses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Left. By Eleanor Elkins Widener Rice, donor to Harvard of its famed Widener Memorial Library: life interest in an estate valued between $50,000,000 and $60,000,000; to her husband, Explorer Alexander Hamilton Rice. On the event of Dr. Rice's death, Mrs. Rice's estate...
Died. Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice, 69, socialite and philanthropist; of a heart attack while shopping; in Paris. Mrs. Rice was Eleanor Elkins of Philadelphia, daughter of Oilman William L. Elkins. She married Philadelphia's George Widener. After he and their son Harry Elkins Widener drowned with the Titanic and...
John Jacob Astor '88, Francis Davis Millet '69, and Harry Elkins Widener '07 reported among victims of Titanic disaster.
Robert G. Rouillard, the attendant at the front door of Widener who daily examines thousands of books for the proper identification marks, says that the hardest part of his job is answering impossible questions. The beginning of the year when curious Freshmen are most abundant, is the most trying period...
In the Harry Elkins Widener Room is a display of early Anglican prayer books, Bibles, books of hours, and hymnals, a few of which are first editions, including Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book.