About: Elliott Cresson

Elliott Cresson was an American philanthropist who gave money to a number of causes after a brief career in the mercantile business. He established the Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1848, and helped found and manage the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, today's Moore College of Art and Design.

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dbpprop:abstract	Elliott Cresson was an American philanthropist who gave money to a number of causes after a brief career in the mercantile business. He established the Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1848, and helped found and manage the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, today's Moore College of Art and Design. Cresson was a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and a strong supporter of the Philadelphia branch of the American Colonization Society, a group fighting slavery that relocated former slaves and free African Americans to colonies in Liberia. Cresson was called "the most belligerent Friend the Society ever had."
dbpprop:birthPlace	Philadelphia
dbpprop:caption	Daguerreotype of Elliott Cresson, 1840
dbpprop:dateOfBirth	March 2, 1796
dbpprop:dateOfDeath	February 20, 1854
dbpprop:deathPlace	Philadelphia
dbpprop:name	Elliott Cresson
dbpprop:occupation	Merchant, philanthropist
dbpprop:reference	http://www.cambriapenn.com/communities/Cresson.htm http://www.fi.edu/learn/case-files/bell/cresson_bio.pdf http://www.fi.edu/franklinawards/about.html http://books.google.com/books?id=tP46AAAAIAAJ http://books.google.com/books?id=x8sNAAAAQAAJ http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mjm.22_0915_0916 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mjm.22_0987_0987 http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Liberia.htm http://memory.loc.gov/master/mss/mjm/22/0900/0915d.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/master/mss/mjm/22/0900/0987d.jpg http://www.fi.edu/winners/show_results.faw?gs=&ln=&fn=&keyword=&subject=&award=CRESS&sy=&ey=&max=300&name=Submit
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rdfs:comment	Elliott Cresson was an American philanthropist who gave money to a number of causes after a brief career in the mercantile business. He established the Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1848, and helped found and manage the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, today's Moore College of Art and Design.
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