who established the first private orphanage in nyc
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton In 1798 Eliza had accepted her friend Isabella Graham's invitation to join the descriptively named Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children that had been established the previous year.[50] In 1806, two years after her husband's death, she, along with several other women including Joanna Bethune, founded the Orphan Asylum Society. Eliza was appointed second directress, or vice-president.[51] In 1821, she was named first directress, and served for twenty-seven years in this role, until she left New York in 1848.[52] By the time she left she had been with the organization continuously since its founding, a total of forty-two years. The New York Orphan Asylum Society continues to exist as a social service agency for children, today called Graham Windham.[53]