Anna T. Jeanes

She was born in Philadelphia, the city where she gave Spring Garden Institute, a technical school, $5,000,000; $100,000 to the Hicksite Friends; $200,000 to the Quaker schools of Philadelphia; and $200,000 to the Home for Aged Friends, now known as Stapeley in Germantown, a retirement home where she spent the closing years of her life.

Not satisfied with one, she personally supervised and carefully monitored the finances and building of a second named Stapeley in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia into which she moved in.

Her requirement was that there would be a racially integrated foundation board, the men to be chosen by Booker T. Washington (Tuskegee) and Hollis Frissell (Hampton).

Besides Booker T. Washington directors of The Jeanes Fund included President William H. Taft, Andrew Carnegie, and George Peabody.

[6] Driven by personal experiences and living with a painful diagnosis of carcinoma scrofulous of the breast, Anna left a generous bequest to build a hospital.

Later, consistent with Anna's will, the Institute for Cancer Research and American Oncologic Hospital relocated to the Jeanes campus.

Today, Jeanes Hospital and Fox Chase Cancer Center are members of the Temple University Health System.