Florence Peshine Eagleton
Eagleton was one of the first women to serve as a Trustee of Rutgers University. She bequeathed more than $1,000,000 to establish the Wells Phillips Eagleton and Florence Peschine Eagleton Foundation. Which is now called the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, which strives to provide education in practical politics for young women.
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References:
Burstyn, Joan N. 1990. “Florence Peshine Eagleton”. Past and Promise, Lives of New Jersey Women. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54486218
Questions to Explore
What are some things Eagleton did as a leader of the Woman’s Suffrage movement and an advocate for women’s higher education?
How did Eagleton become a trustee of Rutgers University?
Additional Resources
Encyclopedia of New Jersey. United Kingdom: Rutgers University Press, 2004.
Burstyn, Joan N.. Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women. United States: Syracuse University Press, 1997.