Emilie Bigelow Hapgood (1868 in ChicagoAutobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, published 2013 by University of California Press; editors: Benjamin Griffin and Harriet E. Smith; associate editors: Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz and Leslie Diane Myrick; p. 509, "Explanatory notes: AD 7 June 1906"; 101.31: "Mrs. Hapgood's luncheon: Emilie Bigelow Hapgood (1868-1930), a family friend, was the daughter of a Chicago banker"-February 15, 1930, in Rome)EMILIE HAPGOOD DIES OF A STROKE; Former New York Producer and Designer Succumbs in Rome, Italy. HAD HEADED STAGE SOCIETY Induced Granville Barker to Bring His Productions Here--Ex-Wife of Norman Hapgood., in the New York Times; published February 17, 1930 was a theatrical producer in New York City, and was at one time the president of the Stage Society. She founded the Circle For Negro War Relief in November 1917 during World War I, and led it for some time. She herself was white. She married Norman Hapgood in 1896; they were divorced in 1915. Georgia Douglas Johnson wrote a poem titled "TO EMILIE BIGELOW HAPGOOD - PHILANTHROPIST", which Johnson included in Bronze: A Book of Verse, published in 1922.
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