Abigail Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948)
Abby married John Jr, in 1901 after a five year courtship. She helped finance the Red Cross when the US entered the first World War, founded the YMCA, and later the Museum of Modern Art. She helped her notoriously introverted husband to tolerate social interaction more easily…
John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (1874-1960)
Before his death in 1960, John Rockefeller Jr gave away nearly half his fortune to build churches, medical centers, and universities, and for the preservation of historic sites and parklands. He kept the tapestries hanging in his study, but then built the Cloisters Museum to house them; they moved to their new home in 1936.