Nora Iasigi Bullitt(1881-1976) was born into a wealthy Boston family at the height of the Gilded Age. Her status did not keep her from aiding humanity. As a young woman she was a guiding force behind her mother's establishment of a manual training school for girls in Lenox and Stockbridge, MA. She was also a prize-winning sculptor, having studied under Daniel Chester French, the noted Lincoln Memorial sculptor. After her marriage in 1913 to former Solicitor General William Marshall Bullitt, she moved to Louisville, Kentucky and oversaw the renovation and additions to Oxmoor, the Bullitt family ancestral home which dates back to 1791. She continued sculpting, but also took up the cause of women's suffrage, was active in supporting the war effort during World War I, wrote a narrative of her 1934 trip to the USSR, and became active in the Republican Party of Kentucky. In 1919 she became the first woman in Louisville to fly in an airplane in connection with the sale of Victory bonds.