They had six children, five of whom lived to adulthood: James E. Two years later, James Mogg married Ellen Mary Saunders. Elizabeth Sabey Scripps died the day after the latter's birth. James married his cousin Elizabeth Sabey in 1829 and had two children, only one of whom lived to maturity, Elizabeth Mary (1831–1914). He was apprenticed to Charles Lewis, the leading bookbinder of London, where he learned the trade. Her father, James Mogg Scripps (1803–1873), was the youngest of six children born to London publisher William Armiger Scripps (1772–1851) and Mary Dixie (1771–1838). Family history Įllen Browning Scripps was born on October 18, 1836, on South Molton St. She also donated millions of dollars to organizations worldwide that promised to advance democratic principles and women's education.
She appeared on the cover of Time magazine after founding Scripps College in Claremont, California.
In 1924, she founded the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, CA. By the 1920s, Ellen Browning Scripps was worth an estimated $30 million (or $388 million in 2020 dollars), most of which she gave away. Scripps Company, America's largest chain of newspapers and patron of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, linking Midwestern industrial cities with booming towns in the West. Ellen Browning Scripps (Octo– August 3, 1932) was an American journalist and philanthropist who was the founding donor of several major institutions in Southern California.
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