Nationality American Occupation Philanthropist | Spouse(s) Warren Newcomb Name Josephine Newcomb | |
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Born October 31, 1816 Baltimore, Maryland Children Warren Newcomb, Jr., Harriott Sophie Newcomb Died April 7, 1901, New York, United States | ||
Josephine Louise Newcomb (née Le Monnier; October 31, 1816 – April 7, 1901) was the philanthropist whose donations led to the founding of Newcomb College at Tulane University.
Life
Josephine Louise Le Monnier was born in Baltimore on October 31, 1816 to Mary Sophia Waters and Alexander Le Monnier. She received her education in Baltimore and in her father's native France. After her mother died, Le Monnier went to live in New Orleans, where her older sister Eleanor Anne and brother-in-law William Henderson had settled. There, Le Monnier met Warren Newcomb, and the couple married in Christ Church Cathedral on December 15, 1845.
The couple moved to Louisville, Kentucky, and had a son, Warren, Jr., who died shortly after his birth in 1853. The couple later moved to New York, where Josephine gave birth to their second child, Harriott Sophie Newcomb, on July 29, 1855.