Jane Sather

Jane K. Sather (née Krom; March 9, 1824 – December 11, 1911) was an American philanthropist and one of the University of California, Berkeley's most significant benefactors.

She was born Jane Krom in Brooklyn on March 9, 1824, to a French mother and a Dutch father.

[3] She was a keen supporter of women's suffrage and a prominent member of her local branch of Sorosis (est.

[3] Jane K. Sather died on December 11, 1911, and is buried in Oakland's Mountain View Cemetery.

[2]: 29–34  Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President of the University of California from 1899 to 1919, encouraged Jane Sather to found the Sather Professorship of Classical Literature; this enables a distinguished classical scholar to spend a term in Berkeley every year.