| 词条 | Dotha Bushnell Hillyer |
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Dotha Bushnell Hillyer (1843 – 1942) was an American philanthropist. The youngest daughter of Reverend Horace Bushnell and Mary Apthorpe, Dotha Bushnell was born in Hartford.[1][2] In 1879, she married Appleton Robbins Hillyer.[1] With her husband, she helped establish the West Hartford Science Museum, now The Children's Museum, and the Hillyer YMCA building, and later Hillyer College at the University of Hartford.[1] She also built the Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall, and later The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, in honor of her father. She saw the hall as a gathering place for the community. Hillyer had opened an investment account with $800,000 to finance the project; the account grew to $2.5 million. She was fortunate enough to withdraw the money just before Wall Street Crash of 1929. The hall opened in January 1930.[1][2] Hillyer was too ill to attend the opening of the Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall in 1930 and died two years later.[1] In 2003, she was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame.[3] References1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.cwhf.org/educational-resources/historic-sites/hillyer/ |title=Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall |publisher=Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame}} {{Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Hillyer, Dotha Bushnell}}2. ^1 {{cite book |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=k-fuBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 |title=On This Day in Connecticut History |last=Mangan |first=Gregg |page=19 |year=2015 |ISBN=1625851952}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web |url=http://cwhf.org/inductees/arts-humanities/dotha-bushnell-hillyer#.V_-oxiSeV8g |title=Dotha Bushnell Hillyer |work=Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame}} 3 : 1843 births|1942 deaths|American philanthropists |
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