Regional shopping centers, offices, midmarket hotels. Great-grandparents emigrated from Ireland. Inheritance, banking, real estate| Chevy Chase, Md. A great-grandmother, considers herself very fortunate. Husband James, former Honeywell chief executive, runs Broadway's Jujamcyn theater chain. Started own foundation,VMB fund, to help Minnesota indigent. Honorary chair of $1.9 billion McKnight Foundation started by father.

1978), South Dakota farm boy who rose through ranks of sandpaper company that became industrial giant 3M Corp.

Married, 3 children (1 deceased)|Only child of William S. Launched Women's Institute for Secure Retirement (WISER) 1996 to prepare women for retirement.Ĩ3. Oversees family's foundations and endowments of more than $1.5 billion. Owns large collection of rare 17th-century still lifes. Married Senator John Forbes Kerry (D-Mass.) in 1995 but didn't switch parties: remains a registered Republican. Married heir to ketchup company fortune, U.S. Daughter of Portuguese doctor, raised in Mozambique.

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