![]() ![]() She helped her old friend Dolley Madison plan the construction of the Washington Monument.Īnd even as an elderly woman, Hamilton continued writing her American story-by traveling west to Wisconsin alone, by the grueling path known as the northern steamboat route. She famously co-founded an orphanage in New York City, which still exists today as Graham Windham, and she established the Hamilton Free School, among the first public schools in Harlem. She also raised the children of siblings and strangers when perils of the era left them without mothers. She raised their eight children as a single and financially strapped mother. She spent the years after her husband’s death performing good works. When Alexander Hamilton died in his 1804 duel with Aaron Burr, Eliza, then 47 years old, still had more than half her life, and a good part of the 19th century, ahead of her. In her quiet and private way, she sacrificed and fought for the American republic, which she also got to see thrive and grow. Later, as part of that generation who fought for, and won, American independence, Eliza was friends with Martha Washington-and of course she kept Alexander Hamilton’s secrets. When her distant cousin, James Fenimore Cooper, wrote about life on the Hudson River frontier in The Last of the Mohicans, he might as well as have been describing her girlhood. But there is much more to Eliza’s American life than we can see in the musical. ![]() The musical Hamilton introduced theatergoers to Eliza Schuyler, the wife of Alexander Hamilton, and her sisters Angelica and Peggy. ![]()
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