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Forty-three Years Ago, Or, The Early Days Of The State Charities Aid Association, 1872-1915: An Address...
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Forty-three Years Ago, Or, The Early Days Of The State Charities Aid Association, 1872-1915: An Address; Issue 135 Of Publication (State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.))); State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.).
Louisa Lee Schuyler
State Charities Aid Association, 1915
Social Science; Philanthropy & Charity; Charities; Friendly visiting; New York (State); Social Science / Philanthropy & Charity
Louisa Lee Schuyler was an early American leader in welfare work, philanthropist. During the Civil War, as the corresponding secretary in the Woman's Central Association of Relief (WCAR) in New York City, she coordinated the efforts of the volunteers on the home front, including distribution of millions of dollars of supplies, and providing training materials.
Background
Louisa was born on October 26, 1837 in New York, United States. She was a daughter of George Lee and Eliza (Hamilton) Schuyler of New York, and a great-granddaughter of Gen. Philip John Schuyler and of Alexander Hamilton.
Her father, a grandson of General Schuyler, married a cousin who was a granddaughter of Hamilton and his wife, Elizabeth Schuyler, thus continuing the union of two families distinguished in Revolutionary history. Louisa, her younger sister Georgina, and her brother Philip were reared in a home of unpretentious wealth, described sixty years later in J. H. Choate's autobiography, The Boyhood and Youth of Joseph Hodges Choate (1917). The sisters passed many of their girlhood days at the country seat of their grandfather, James Alexander Hamilton, near Dobbs Ferry, twenty miles up the Hudson.
Career
One of the earliest indications of Louisa Schuyler's interest in what has since become known generally as "welfare" work was her appearance at twenty-three as a volunteer teacher for the Children's Aid Society.
Within a year the outbreak of the Civil War opened to her, as to thousands of other young Americans, new channels of service and grave responsibilities. She was active from the first in the women's war-relief work organized by Dr. Henry Whitney Bellows out of which grew the United States Sanitary Commission, the organization that anticipated the Red Cross of a later date. In the four years of war she developed marked executive ability and organized information as well as express services but spent her strength so prodigally that almost seven years of rest, largely passed in Europe and Egypt, were required to achieve recuperation.
On her return to New York in 1871 with improved health, she became interested in the care and treatment of dependents committed to poorhouses and other local institutions. A project of her own, the State Charities Aid Association, was formed in 1872 at her father's house with the purpose of promoting visitation and inspection of public institutions by private citizens.
In the beginning she had little help but in the course of time the association became an important factor in reforming abuses and in rallying the friends of constructive welfare effort, and similar societies were founded in other states. Within two years, impelled by conditions revealed to the State Charities visitors at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, she appealed successfully for the opening of a nurses' training school at Bellevue, the first in America.
In their investigations the association's visitors found nothing more impressive than the plight of dependent insane confined in county poorhouses. The wrongs endured by these unfortunates had been eloquently set forth by Dorothea Lynde Dix, and some of the extreme abuses had been abolished, but scientific methods of care and treatment could not be had in the average local almshouse of the time.
Consequently, Miss Schuyler led a campaign for state care of the insane; in 1890, after many rebuffs, she was at last completely successful and all insane inmates of county poorhouses were by law transferred to commodious, well-administered state hospitals.
As a trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation from its formation she became especially interested in work for the prevention of blindness. She was president of the foundation's committee out of which grew in 1915 the National Committee (later Society) for the Prevention of Blindness, an agency which has been the means of recovering vision for countless thousands of American children.
Illness overtook her old age, and even while she was engrossed in the task of preserving to others the priceless gift of vision she was herself deprived of its enjoyment. She died shortly before her 89th birthday.
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Personality
Quotes from others about the person
The woman from National Committee (later Society) for the Prevention of Blindness declared that Louisa had "the mind of a lawyer and the will-power of a captain of industry".
Connections
Schuyler never married, living with her sister Georgina for most of her adult life.