Anna M. Harkness

October 25, 1837

Dalton, Ohio, U.S.

March 27, 1926(1926-03-27) (aged 88)

New York City, New York, U.S.

Lake View Cemetery

Philanthropist

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(m. 1854; died 1888)​

Jennie Harkness
Charles W. Harkness
Florence Harkness
Edward Harkness

Early life[edit]

She was born on October 25, 1837, in Dalton, Ohio,[1] and was the daughter of James Richardson and Anna (née Ranck) Richardson.[2] Not much is known about her early life.[3]

Jennie A. Harkness (1856–1864), who died young.

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(1860–1916),[4] who married Mary Warden (1864–1916) in 1896;[5] both died of influenza in 1916.[6]

Charles William Harkness

Florence Harkness (1864–1895), who married the widower (1838–1913).

Louis Henry Severance

(1874–1940),[7][8] who married Mary Stillman, daughter of New York attorney Thomas Edgar Stillman, in 1904.[9]

Edward Stephen Harkness

The Commonwealth Fund

Pictures and history of Harkness House, current home to the Commonwealth Fund