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Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (February 21, 1920 – January 25, 2012) was an American heiress, activist, politician, and philanthropist. She was the granddaughter of Benjamin N. Duke and the great-granddaughter of Washington Duke, both tobacco and energy tycoons who helped start Duke University.
Jan 25, 2012 · By Duke Today Staff. Mary Semans in 2005 at the Nasher Museum of Art. Photo by Chris Hildreth/Duke University Photography. Mary. Duke Biddle Trent Semans, the scion of the family that founded Duke University, died on Wednesday. She was 91.
Apr 1, 2012 · Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans ’39, Hon. ’83—lifelong philanthropist, civic leader, humanitarian, and great-granddaughter of university namesake Washington Duke—died January 25 at the age of ninety-one.
Jan 25, 2012 · Mary DBT Semans. 1920-2012. Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, a member of the Duke family, was born Mary Duke Biddle in 1920. She enrolled in Duke University at the age of 15 in 1936. In 1939, she married Josiah Charles Trent, a medical student at Duke and later a Surgeon on the Duke faculty.
Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (1920-2012), a member of the Duke family, was born Mary Duke Biddle on February 21, 1920. She enrolled in Duke University at the age of 15 in 1936. She married Josiah Charles Trent, a medical student at Duke and later a surgeon on the Duke faculty, in 1939.
Jan 30, 2012 · welcomes you to this celebration of our beloved Mary Semans. This institution and Mary were so intertwined that neither had a life apart from the other. Mary was a young member of the Duke family when Duke University was created. The East and West campuses were built when she was still a child. She moved to Durham
Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans. “A principal link in the life of this university.”. That is how former Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead described Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans following her death in 2012 at the age of 91.
