Abigail Aldrich Rockefeller Mauzé (November 9, 1903 – May 27, 1976) was an American philanthropist. She was the daughter of American philanthropists John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller as well as a granddaughter of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller.
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Family background
Abigail was the first child and only daughter of philanthropists John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abigail Greene "Abby" Aldrich. She was commonly referred to as "Babs" to avoid confusion with her mother. She attended both the Chapin School and the Brearley School in New York City.
Philanthropy
She and her five brothers carried on the Rockefeller family tradition of philanthropy stemming back to their paternal grandparents, Standard Oil co-founder John Davison Rockefeller Sr. and schoolteacher Laura Celestia "Cettie" Spelman.
Unlike her famed brothers, she remained out of the public eye. Throughout her life, Rockefeller held many positions: membership of the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, set up by her and her brothers in 1940, advisory member of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center board of trustees, (a chief benefactor of the center along with her brother, Laurance, she received its Medal of Appreciation in 1965), and honorary trustee of the Rockefeller Family Fund, founded by various family members in 1967.