In the years following the death of her husband on 8 September 1935, Mrs. Doheny assumed control of his petroleum business, which she managed successfully until its eventual liquidation.
Edward Doheny had given liberally to charitable and educational causes, establishing the pattern on which his wife based her own benefactions in later years. Projects attributed wholly to Mrs. Doheny were the Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library at Saint John's Seminary in Camarillo, California (1940); the Edward L. Doheny Memorial Vincentian House of Studies in Washington, D.C. (1941); the Carrie Estelle Doheny Eye Foundation (now the Doheny Eye Institute) in Los Angeles (1947); the Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation (1949); the chapel and two other buildings at Maryvale (1952); the Estelle Doheny Hospital (1956); and the chapel and three other buildings at Saint Vincent's Seminary in Montebello (1958). In 1954 she was chosen Woman of the Year by the Los Angeles Times.
Mrs. Doheny began her collection of rare books and manuscripts in the 1920s with the encouragement of the Dohenys' legal counsel, Frank J. Hogan, a leading bibliophile. She was also assisted by A. Edward Newton, A.
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