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Philanthropist; born Chillicothe, Ohio, 1800; died Cincinnati, Ohio, 1877. A Catholic convert in Rome (1855) and founder of the School of Design for Women in Philadelphia. She was a patron of art, and active in charitable and philanthropic works in Cincinnati. In 1862 she volunteered as a nurse in the Civil War.