Mary Emery

Mary was educated at the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn and excelled in advanced mathematics and astronomy.

Thomas was the oldest son of a businessman, whose empire of candle manufacturing, real estate, and housing construction would soon grow exponentially.

Together, the couple bought an enormous estate called "Mariemont" near Newport, Rhode Island.

In her final years, she recognized her "vast responsibility" and began funding various orphanages, colleges, hospitals, and schools with the enormous fortune she inherited upon her husband's death.

In 1923, she funded the planned community of Mariemont, Ohio, named after her estate in Rhode Island.