Laura Celestia Cettie Spelman Rockefeller was an American abolitionist, philanthropist, schoolteacher, and prominent member of the Rockefeller family. Her husband was Standard Oil cofounder John D. Rockefeller. She is the namesake of Spelman College, founded to educate black women in the South, and the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial.
Cettie Spelman was born in Wadsworth, Ohio to Puritan descendant Harvey Buell Spelman and Lucy Henry , Yankees who had moved to Ohio from Massachusetts. Harvey was an abolitionist who was active in the Congregationalist Church, the Underground Railroad, and in politics. The Spelmans eventually moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Cettie had an elder adopted sister, Lucy Maria Lute Spelman . In Cleveland, Lute and Cettie met John Davison Rockefeller while attending accounting classes together. He was the eldest son of con artist William Avery Bill Rockefeller and Eliza Davison . They had five children
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