Ellen Browning Scripps
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Ellen Browning Scripps was an American journalist and philanthropist who was the founding donor of several major institutions in Southern California. W. W. Scripps Company, America's largest chain of newspapers, linking Midwestern industrial cities with booming towns in the West.
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Ellen Browning Scripps's house, South Molton Villa II, designed by architect Irving J. Gill
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2024, former house of Ellen Browning Scripps
George H. Scripps Memorial Marine Biological Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Scripps College, Claremont, CA
La Jolla Woman's Club
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Ellen Browning Scripps was an American journalist and philanthropist who was the founding donor of several major institutions in Southern California. She and her half-brother E.W. Scripps created the E.W. Scripps Company, America's largest chain of newspapers, linking Midwestern industrial cities with booming towns in the West. By the 1920s, Ellen Browning Scripps was worth an estimated $30 million, most of which she donated.
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