Caroline O'Fallon

Caroline Schutz O'Fallon (1804–1898) was an American benefactor and philanthropist.

Early life and education Ruth Caroline Schutz was born in 1804, in Baltimore, Maryland. Her family members were wealthy merchants of that city.

She came of an old Maryland family, and some of her ancestors were closely related to English families of noble lineage. Her great-grandmother, Susanah Howard, was first cousin to the Cecilia Shirley, Lady De La Warr, Countess Delaware, wife of Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, first Colonial Governor and Captain-General of Virginia, in whose honor the State of Delaware was afterward named. She was reared in Maryland, carefully educated, and in her young womanhood was noted for both her beauty and her accomplishments. she married the widowed John O'Fallon. Her husband soon became a man of large wealth, and a public benefactor.