Sarah Graham Kenan

She inherited a third of her sister's share of the Standard Oil fortune in 1917 and established the Sarah Graham Kenan Foundation.

[1] Her father, a Civil War veteran, businessman, white supremacist, and trustee of the University of North Carolina, participated in the Wilmington insurrection of 1898.

[2][3] She was a sister of William R. Kenan Jr. and a sister-in-law of Henry Flagler, who co-founded the Standard Oil Company with John D.

[1][5][6] After her brother-in-law's death, his oil fortune was inherited by her sister, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham.

[1] She was a patron of the Catherine Kennedy Home in Wilmington, the Duplin County Board of Education, New Hanover County private schools, the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina, St. James Episcopal Church, Duke University School of Medicine, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, Saint Mary's School, Durham Academy, Thalian Hall, the Kenansville Board of Education, and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

[1] In 1930, she helped the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill start the Southern Historical Collection in their new library, which included letters, diaries, and plantation records.

[1] After her death, her nephew, James Graham Kenan, gifted her home on Market Street to the state for the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.