Eliza M. Chandler White

Eliza M. Chandler White (May 1, 1831 – June 2, 1907) was an American social reformer and charity work leader, as well as an abolitionist, and clubwoman. She founded the Brooklyn Home for Consumptives, and the Fort Greene Chapter (Brooklyn, New York) of the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.). She was also the head of the Prison Ship Martyrs Committee which erected the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn. She was one of the best-known women of Brooklyn in her day.

Early life and education Eliza Matilda Chandler was born in Marietta, Ohio, May 1, 1831. while she was a student at Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Illinois,

Career She taught school until her marriage on February 24, 1857, at Grafton, Illinois, to Stephen Van Culen White, a lawyer who attained wide prominence in his profession and was, during the latter part of his life, an influential member of the New York Stock Exchange. the Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century, the Woman's Auxiliary of the Society for the Preserving and Marking of Historic Sites, Their son married a granddaughter of Henry Ward Beecher.

Selected works A Plea for a Monument to the Martyrs of the War of the Revolution: Read Before the National Congress of Daughters of the American Revolution, in Washington, D.C., Feb. 21, 1896 (1896) (text)

Editor Diary of Captain Jabez Fitch. A narrative of the treatment with which the American prisoners were used, who were taken by the British & Hessian troops on Long Island, York Island &c. 1776 (New York, 1897) (text)