Background
Sunderland, Eliza Read was born in 1839 in Huntsville, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Amasa and Jane (Henderson) Read.
Sunderland, Eliza Read was born in 1839 in Huntsville, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Amasa and Jane (Henderson) Read.
Graduate Mount Holyoke (Massachusetts) Seminary, 1865. Bachelor of Philisophy, University of Michigan, 1889, Bachelor of Philosophy, 1892.
Principal high school, Aurora, Illinois, 1866-1871. Teacher high schools, Chicago, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1877-1898. Associate editor Illinois Social Science Journal, Chicago, 1878.
President Women’s Western Unitarian Conference, 1882-1887. Director National Society Advancement of Women, 1885-1895. Prominent speaker at the World’s Parliament of Religions, and also Woman’s Congress, Chicago, 1893.
Member School Board, Hartford, Connecticut, since 1907. Preached (not ordained) and lectured extensively. Author: Stories from Genesis, 1890.
Heroes and Heroines, 1895. Centennial Memorial to James Martineau, 1905. Also various addresses and articles in mags. and newspapers.
Member School Board, Hartford, Connecticut, since 1907.
Married Jabez Thomas Sunderland, December 7, 1871.