Elizabeth Selden Rogers


Elizabeth Selden White Rogers was a civic reformer working to improve the New York public schools, and to win suffrage for women in the state of New York and the nation.

She was born on July 23, 1868, in Astoria, Queens, New York. Her sister was Mabel Wellington White, wife of US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, she was also the maternal granddaughter of Union Major General Amos Beebe Eaton and a descendant of Roger Sherman, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Source: Wikipedia


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