Education
She graduated from Oberlin College in 1853, and married Charles Burlingame Waite the next year.
She graduated from Oberlin College in 1853, and married Charles Burlingame Waite the next year.
They had eight children. In 1859, she established Hyde Park Seminary. In 1886, she founded the Chicago Law Times, a quarterly magazine which she edited.
Waite was a women"s rights activist.
At the International Council of Women at Washington, she was elected president of the Woman"s International Bar Association, 26 March 1888.
She was a graduate of the Union College of Law and a member of the Illinois Barometer