Sarah Graham Kenan (1876-1968)

of Kenan House, Wilmington, N.C., Founder of the Sarah Graham Kenan Foundation

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She inherited a third of her sister Mary's share of the Standard Oil fortune in 1917 and established the Sarah Graham Kenan Foundation. She married her cousin, Graham Kenan, and built Kenan House at Wilmington, North Carolina (see images). She died without children.

Parents (2)

William Rand Kenan

Merchant, of Wilmington, North Carolina; former Captain in the Confederate Army

1845-1903

Mary (Hargrave) Kenan

Mrs Mary Virginia (Hargrave) Kenan

1842-1916

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Gilded Age Heiresses Philanthropists