Eliza Wright Osborne

Eliza Osborne ( Wright; September 3, 1829 – July 19, 1911) was an American suffragist and feminist, who became vice president of the New York Woman Suffrage Association.

The niece and daughter, respectively, of prominent women's rights activists Lucretia Mott and Martha Coffin Wright, she was also a colleague of suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, and was credited by her contemporaries with having helped to expand the women's suffrage movement across the nation and with the founding of the Women's Education and Industrial Union in Auburn, New York.

Formative years and family Born as Eliza Wright in Aurora, Erie County, New York on September 3, 1829, Eliza Wright Osborne was a daughter of David Wright and Martha Coffin Wright and the eldest sister of Tallman, Ellen, William, and Francis Wright. In 1848, her mother and her maternal aunt, Lucretia Mott, played key roles in organizing the Seneca Falls Convention, which was the first women's rights convention ever held in the United States. Wright fell under their influence and the influence of the other suffragists with whom they regularly interacted. They had four children: Emily, Florence, Thomas, and Helen. Along with other prominent New York suffragists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eliza Wright Osborne was one of the seventy-two women on the national roll of honor of the National League of Women.

Auburn City Hospital: $5,000; Auburn Home for the Friendless: $10,000; Cayuga Orphan Asylum/Cayuga Asylum for Destitute Children: $5,000; George Junior Republic, Freeville: $20,000; and the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Auburn: $25,000 plus the building that Elizabeth Wright Osborne built for the Auburn Women's Union at a cost of $200,000.

Her memorial service was held in Auburn on October 15, 1911. The Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, one of the first women to be ordained as a Methodist minister in America and a suffrage movement colleague of Osborne's, was one of the primary speakers at the service.