Kate Macy Ladd

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Catherine Everit Macy Ladd, or Kate Macy Ladd, (1863-1945) was a philanthropist who founded and endowed the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation in honor of her father.

Mrs. Ladd was a descendant of Thomas and Sarah Macy, Massachusetts settlers in the late 1630s, and a granddaughter of Captain Josiah Macy, originally of Nantucket, who founded a firm that became New York's first oil refinery in the 1860s (later sold to the Standard Oil Company).

Mrs. Ladd married lawyer and yachtsman Walter Graeme Ladd on December 5, 1883. Their New Jersey estate, Natirar, has recently become a nonprofit organization.