Dorothy Stokes Smith Campbell was an American heiress and an artist and author who became one of the first women in the United States to hold a helicopter pilot's license.
Occupation
painter, helicopter pilot, artist, sculptor
Citizenship
United States
Born
March 26, 1899, 1899
Died
February 16, 2001, 2001
Overview
Dorothy Stokes Smith Campbell ( Bostwick; March 26, 1899 – February 16, 2001) was an American heiress and an artist and author who became one of the first women in the United States to hold a helicopter pilot's license.
Early life
Dorothy Stokes Bostwick was born in Manhattan on March 26, 1899. She was the eldest of five children born to Mary Lillian (née Stokes) Bostwick and Albert Carlton Bostwick Sr. Among her younger siblings was Albert C. Bostwick Jr., Lillian Bostwick Phipps, Dunbar Bostwick, and Pete Bostwick. Her father, a banker and sportsman, set early automobile speed records. After Albert Sr.'s death in 1911, her mother remarried in 1914 to Fitch Gilbert Jr., a Harvard and Columbia Law School graduate and farmer and they lived at 801 Fifth Avenue.
Her maternal grandfather, Henry Bolter Stokes, was president of the Manhattan Life Insurance Company, and her paternal grandfather, Jabez Bostwick, was a founder and treasurer of the Standard Oil and a partner of John D. Rockefeller.
On the death of her father in 1911, Dorothy and her siblings inherited a sizeable fortune and upon the death of her grandmother, Helen Celia (née Ford) Bostwick, she received a considerable amount more.
