Alta Rockefeller Prentice

Alta Rockefeller Prentice (April 12, 1871 – June 21, 1962) was an American philanthropist and socialite. She was the third daughter of philanthropists John Davison Rockefeller (1839–1937) and Laura Celestia "Cettie" Spelman (1839–1915). Alta married attorney Ezra Parmalee Prentice (July 29, 1863 – 1955), son of Sartell Prentice and Jemima Parmalee, in 1901. Alta and Ezra had three children: John Rockefeller Prentice (1902–1972), Mary Adeline Prentice (1907–1981), and Spelman Prentice (1911–2000).

She founded Alta House (c. 1900), a settlement house in Little Italy in Cleveland, Ohio, which is named in her honor.^[1]^[2]

In 1910, Alta and Ezra bought 1,400 acres (5.7 km²) of land near Williamstown, Massachusetts. Elm Tree House, the Prentices' 72-room summer home on Mount Hope Farm, was completed in 1928. In the 1930s and 1940s, several geneticists were employed by Ezra to develop more profitable farm animals, particularly cattle and poultry. At that time, Mount Hope Farm was one of the most outstanding experimental farms in the United States.

Alta died in June 1962 at the age of 91. Her property was willed to New York's Lenox Hill Hospital. Shortly thereafter, Elm Tree House was purchased by its current owner, Williams College.

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The Elm Tree House at Mount Hope Farm
Her mother's biography at the Rockefeller Archives

Rockefeller family

children of William Avery Rockefeller (1810–1906)	John Davison Rockefeller (m.) Laura Celestia Spelman William Avery Rockefeller Jr. Franklin Rockefeller

children of John Davison Rockefeller (1839–1937) children of William Avery Rockefeller Jr. (1841–1922)	Elizabeth Rockefeller (m.) Charles Augustus Strong Alta Rockefeller Edith Rockefeller (m.) Harold Fowler McCormick John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (m.) Abigail Greene Aldrich William Goodsell Rockefeller Percy Avery Rockefeller Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller (m.) Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr.

children of Elizabeth Rockefeller (1866–1906) children of Alta Rockefeller (1871–1962) children of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (1874–1960)	Margaret Rockefeller Strong John Rockefeller Prentice Abigail Aldrich Rockefeller (m.) Jean Mauzé John Davison Rockefeller III (m.) Blanchette Ferry Hooker Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (m. 1st) Mary Todhunter Clark (m. 2nd) Margaretta Large Fitler Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (m.) Mary French Winthrop Aldrich Rockefeller David Rockefeller

children of William Goodsell Rockefeller (1870–1922) children of Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878–1934) children of Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller (1882–1973)	Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller James Stillman Rockefeller Isabel Stillman Rockefeller (m.) Frederic Walker Lincoln IV Avery Rockefeller Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr.

children of John Rockefeller Prentice (1902–1972)	Abra Prentice

children of John Davison Rockefeller III (1906–1978) children of Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908–1979) children of Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (1910–2004) children of Winthrop Aldrich Rockefeller (1912–1973) children of David Rockefeller (1915) children of Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller (1899–1983)	John Davison Rockefeller IV Hope Aldrich Rockefeller Alida Ferry Rockefeller Rodman Clark Rockefeller Steven Clark Rockefeller Michael Clark Rockefeller Mark Fitler Rockefeller Laura Spelman Rockefeller Marion French Rockefeller Lucy Aldrich Rockefeller Laurance Spelman Rockefeller Jr. Winthrop Paul Rockefeller David Rockefeller Jr. Abigail Aldrich Rockefeller Margaret Dulany Rockefeller Richard Gilder Rockefeller Eileen Rockefeller Godfrey Anderson Rockefeller

children of John Davison Rockefeller IV (1937)	Justin Aldrich Rockefeller

children of Rodman Clark Rockefeller (1932–2000)	Meile Louise Rockefeller

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