1870-1953
Florence Eagleton was active in suffrage and a civic leader in NJ. She was a lifelong Newark resident.
Florence Peshine Eagleton a suffragist who was was vice President of the NJ Suffrage Association and president of the Woman’s Political Union. She was a founder of the New Jersey League of Woman Voters.
Florence was one of the first woman to serve as trustee of Rutgers. She was also a a trustee of the Newark Museum, Newark Music Foundation and Art Club of Newark. She was a life member of the NJ Historical Society, a trustee of the YMCA, president of the Visiting Nurses Association, director of the Consumers League of New Jersey, organizer of the New Jersey Birth Control League and a member of the Newark Maternal Health Center.
Florence was born in Newark, to the prominent Peshine family, and baptized at St. Stephen’s Church. An 1890, Newark News column called her “one of Newark’s handsomest young women.” Florence was living at 212 Elwood Avenue at the time of her death.
Bibliography
Chiu, Rachel, “Florence Peshine Eagleton“
Lurie, Maxine Encyclopedia of New Jersey
“Widow of Doctor Dies” Newark News Nov 23, 1954
US Episcopal Diocese Records, Ancestry.com
“What Society is Doing” Newark News Oct 28, 1890