Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney

Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney (April 6, 1801 – 1888) was an American Quaker minister and poet. She was both a pacifist and an abolitionist.

Life Eliza Paul Kirkbride was born in Philadelphia to Quakers Mary Pauil Kirkbride and Joseph Kirkbride. She visited then-President Abraham Lincoln at the White House on October 26, 1862, along with fellow Quakers James Carey, Hannah B. Mott, and John M. Whithall. She compiled some of her poetry into a collection entitled Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life, which was not published in her lifetime.

In 1884, Gurney published a memoir and some of her correspondence.