“My Betsey”: The Remarkable Wife of Alexander Hamilton – Elizabeth Kahn Kaplan
April 27, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
FreeElizabeth Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton came from widely different family backgrounds, yet their marriage was a great success. Included in this talk are their eight children; her reaction to his affair with Maria Reynolds; his fatal duel with Aaron Burr in 1804. She lived for 50 more years as a widow salvaging the reputation of her distinguished husband and working on behalf of orphans and public education in New York.