The next year, at the age of seventy-nine, Malvina Cornell Hoffman died while working in her studio in Manhattan, which had been purchased for her early in her career by the philanthropist Mary Williamson Averell.
She became dedicated to philanthropy, donating the land that became Harriman State Park and largely funding the development of the controversial Eugenics Record Office.
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But many today would regard it as a serious blot on her reputation that she heavily funded the Eugenics Record Office.
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Monies were contributed to The Boys' Club of New York that E.H. loved and supported, to the American Red Cross, to John Muir to help save the Yosemite Valley and to Yale University for an endowed chair of Forestry.
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He was born on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1895 in New York City, the youngest of five surviving children of Mary Williamson Averell and Edward Henry Harriman.