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Florence Hurst Harriman

  • Next to entertaining or impressive talk, a thoroughgoing silence manages to intrigue most people.

    • Florence Hurst Harriman

Florence Hurst Harriman, U.S. suffragist, social reformer, organizer, diplomat, socialite

(1870 - 1967)

Full name: Florence Jaffray Hurst “Daisy” Harriman. Also seen as Mrs. J. Borden Harriman or Daisy Borden Harriman.