Eliza Wright Osborne

Eliza Wright Osborne was born in Aurora, Erie County, New York on September 3, 1829.[1] Her parents are Martha Coffin and David Wright. She was born into a suffragist family where her mother Martha Coffin Wright and her aunt Lucretia Mott participated in organizing the first women's suffrage convention. Under her family's influence.[2] Eliza Wright Osborne grew up inheriting and continued fighting for the suffrage right of women.

Inheriting Suffrage Legacy

Eliza Wright Osborne participated in the women's suffragist movement as the vice president of the New York State Women Suffrage Association and donated $200,000 to build the Women's Educational and Industrial Building.[3] She was also founder of Auburn's $250,000 Woman's Educational and Industrial Union.[4] 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 Voters.[5]

Family

Eliza Wright Osborne married David Munson Osborne who was a farm machinery manufacturer in 1851.[6] They had four children named Emily, Florence, Thomas, and Helen.[2] Under the influence of Eliza Wright Osborne, her son Thomas Mott Osborne became a prison reformer, and her grandson Lithgow Osborne became a diplomat and environmentalist.[7]

Date of Death

Eliza Wright Osborne died on July 19, 1911, in her residence, No. 99 South Street in Auburn. She died at the age of 82.[3]

References
  1. "Living in Aurora". Niche. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  2. Biographical Sketch of Eliza Wright Osborne | Alexander Street Documents. (n.d.). https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1010113822
  3. Eliza Wright Osborne dies at age 82. (n.d.). The Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbcmil.scrp7009902/
  4. TRIBUTE TO SUFFRAGE LEADER; Memorial Services at Auburn, N.Y., to the Late Eliza Wright Osborne. (1911, October 16). TimesMachine. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/10/16/104839607.html?pageNumber=9
  5. WOMEN WILL UNVEIL HONOR ROLL TABLETS; Voters’ League’s National and State Lists at Capital Will Include 79 New Yorkers. (1931, March 26). TimesMachine. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/03/26/98327412.html?pageNumber=5
  6. Osborne Family Papers An inventory of the collection at Syracuse University. (n.d.). https://library.syracuse.edu/digital/guides/o/osborne_fam.htm
  7. Eliza Wright Osborne. (n.d.). WATVNYS. https://www.womenandthevotenys.com/1suffragists-vetted/Eliza-Wright-Osborne
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