Eleanor Elkins Widener, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEleanor Elkins Widener
American heiress
Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1861
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 13-Jul-1937
Profession: heiress
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Eleanor Elkins Widener
- Eleanor Elkins Widener (née Eleanore Elkins, later known as Eleanor Elkins Widener Rice or Mrs.
- Alexander Hamilton Rice; c.?1862–1937) was an American heiress, socialite, philanthroÂpist, and adventuress best remembered for her donation to Harvard University of the Widener Library?—?a memorial to her elder son Harry Elkins Widener, who (along with her first husband, George Dunton Widener) perished in the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Widener later married Harvard professor Alexander Hamilton Rice Jr., a surgeon and explorer. She subseÂquently accompaÂnied Rice on a number of expeditions, including one on which she "went further up the Amazon than any white woman had peneÂtrated" and, purportedly, he was attacked by cannibals.
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