Caroline B. Eager

Caroline B. Eager (May 15, 1862 – October 9, 1929) was an American philanthropist who worked mainly with the Igorot people of the Philippine Islands.

Early life Caroline B. Eager was born on May 15, 1862, in Newport, Rhode Island. She was a direct descendant of John Howard of Plymouth. She spent most of her early years in Boston.

She was a supervisor of music in public schools in Rhode Island. She contributed to the Boston Daily Globe and several East Coast magazines. She was a founding member of the Hollywood Bowl, the Los Angeles Oratorio Society, the Cadman Creative Club, the Opera and Fine Arts Club, and the Shakespeare Club.

She died on October 9, 1929, at the home of her lifelong friend, Mrs. Stanley P. Clemens, 198 Bay State Road, Boston. She had come to Boston for a brief stay prior to embarking on her fourth trip around the world, with plans to visit Paris, Egypt, and Manila, but changed her plans and decided to spend the winter in Boston. The night before her death, she had been the principal speaker at a meeting of the Boston Dickens Fellowship in the Arlington Street Church parish hall. Upon leaving the venue, she complained of faintness. She reached Clemens's home and doctors and nurses were summoned as she lapsed into a coma, from which she did not regain consciousness.