Born on 25 July 1873 in Highland Falls, NY, to John Pierpont Morgan and Frances Louisa Tracey. She inherited an immense fortune upon the death of her father in 1913. At the outbreak of WWI, she started to look for ways to help the French population. In April of 1917 she founded The American Committee for Devastated Regions (le Comite Americain pour les Region Devastees), and ran it in France from 1917 - 1921. This formidable organization at its peak employed several hundred people and brought incalculable relief to the French people. She purchased the ruins of the Chateau of Blerancourt and transformed it into a museum of French/American cooperation, which still exists today. She left France in Decemer 1940, but returned after the liberation in June 1945, and once again led war relief efforts. She died in Mount Kisco, NY at the age of 78 on 29 Jan 52.