Alexander Hamilton

by Ron Chernow

“Had I read Sterne more and Voltaire less, I should have known the world was wide enough for Hamilton and me.”

In 1818, she returned to the state legislature and won a charter for the Hamilton Free School, which was the first educational institution in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. It stood on land Eliza donated on Broadway between 187th and 188th Streets in upper Manhattan and was established in honor of her husband’s memory.

Eliza aided her friend Dolley Madison in raising money to construct the Washington Monument and remained sharp and alert until the end.