Background
Elizabeth Buffum Chace was born on December 9, 1806 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. She was the second daughter of Arnold Buffum and Rebecca (Gould) Buffum.
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Elizabeth Buffum Chace was born on December 9, 1806 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. She was the second daughter of Arnold Buffum and Rebecca (Gould) Buffum.
She passed her childhood in Smithfield and in Connecticut, where she attended the common schools, later studying at the Friends' School, Providence.
Under her father's influence she early interested herself in anti-slavery activities, and in Valley Falls, whither the Chaces removed in 1840, they conducted an Underground Railroad station. Mrs. Chace gave valued counsel to officers of the New England Anti-Slavery Society, and was their agent for arranging meetings in Rhode Island, entertaining in her home Garrison, Phillips, Frederick Douglass, and other lecturers. In 1843 she resigned from the Society of Friends, alleging their indifference to the abolition cause. Thereafter she was unaffiliated with any religious sect; she retained belief in the "Inner Light, " but her views became increasingly liberal. For some years she was a spiritualist, reading assiduously the Banner of Light and the writings of Andrew Jackson Davis, but in later life spiritualism ceased to influence her. She helped to sponsor the Woman's Rights convention held in 1850 in Worcester. She worked ardently for suffrage, writing, speaking, and securing petitions for legislative action. Temperance and humanitarian activities also engaged her. In 1870 her efforts secured the passage of a state law providing for a board of women visitors to inspect Rhode Island penal and correctional institutions where women or children were confined; on this board she served for several years. At the International Congress on the Prevention and Repression of Crime, Including Penal Reformatory Treatment, in London (1872), she was a delegate and active participant. She brought about the establishment of the Rhode Island Home and School for Dependent Children (1884), and several years later reform of abuses in its management. Her wide range of interests brought her many friends, including Julia Ward Howe, Moncure D. Conway, John Weiss (Shakespearean scholar), Thomas Davidson, and Andrew Carnegie. She contributed to the New England Magazine and extensively to the Providence Journal. Her summer home at Wianno, on Cape Cod, became a literary center for reformers. After 1893 feebleness confined her to her home at Central Falls, where she died.
In June 1828, at Fall River, Massachussets, she married Samuel Buffington Chace, a cotton manufacturer. The mother of ten children, she was the affectionate center of her home, which, amid all her activities, she never neglected. Three children only survived her; of these Lillie (Mrs. John C. Wyman) became her mother's biographer, and Arnold B. Chace chancellor of Brown University.
He was a cotton manufacturer
She became her mother's biographer
He was chancellor of Brown University
