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Harriet Harwell Wilson High

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Harriet "Hattie" Harwell Wilson High (1862-1932) was the wife of Joseph Madison High (1855-1906), the founder of Atlanta department store J.M. High Company. She donated her family's mansion on Peachtree Street to house the museum that has grown into the High Museum of Art, Atlanta's foremost art museum.

She was buried in Westview Cemetery.[1]

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