LAT: Heinz Family Philanthropy Mixed With Battles(Heinz Family History)

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This one would be a good one to file for reference when we need to discuss the history of the family of Teresa's late husband John Heinz.

If her husband is elected president, Teresa Heinz Kerry would be among America's most recognizable figures. But she already is commander of a family empire that has been a familiar name to Americans for more than a century -- one whose history includes political activism and philanthropy but also infighting and tragedy.

The Heinz family history is told all over this riverfront city -- at a stylish museum named for her late husband, Sen. H.J. Heinz III, and in archives at Carnegie Mellon University. The name is stamped on parks, schools and a magnificent limestone chapel at the University of Pittsburgh.

The symbols of Heinz's wealth, power and patronage in Pittsburgh tell the public story of a pioneering American industrial family, almost as important to food as the Fords to autos and the Rockefellers to oil.

A closer look reveals a long record of conservative as well as liberal political activity and philanthropy mixed with epic battles over money and personal tragedies such as divorces, suicides and alcoholism.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/2004/la-na-teresa27oct27,1,829275,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines

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