Mrs. Phoebe Appersin Hearst was born in 1840. After an education in
the public schools she became a teacher in them until 1861, when
she married the late United States Senator George F. Hearst from
California, who died, in 1891, leaving her and her son, William
Randolph Hearst, a fortune of many millions. W. R. Hearst is the
well-known newspaper owner and publisher. Mrs. Hearst has established
kindergarten classes and the manual training school in San Francisco,
kindergartens and the kindergarten training school in Washington,
District of Columbia; has made donations to the American university
at Washington, gave $200,000 to build a national cathedral school
for girls, has established working girls’ clubs in San Francisco,
is the patron of a school for mining engineers at the University of
California, and, as a memorial to her husband, has built and endowed
libraries in a number of mining towns in the west. In connection with
the plans for the projected University of California, she has also
agreed to erect two buildings to cost between three and four million of
dollars.