Eliza Hamilton Holly
| Eliza Hamilton Holly | |
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| Born |
November 20, 1799 New York City |
| Died | October 17, 1859 (aged 59) Washington, D.C. |
| Resting place | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) | Sidney Augustus Holly (m. 1825; his death 1842) |
| Parent(s) |
Alexander Hamilton Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton |
| Relatives |
Philip Hamilton (brother) Angelica Hamilton (sister) Alexander Hamilton Jr. (brother) James Alexander Hamilton (brother) John Church Hamilton (brother) William S. Hamilton (brother) Philip Hamilton (the second) (brother) Philip Schuyler (maternal grandfather) Angelica Schuyler Church (maternal aunt) Peggy Schuyler Van Rensselaer (maternal aunt) |
| Family |
Hamilton family Schuyler family |
Eliza Hamilton Holly (1799–1859) was the seventh child and second daughter of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Eliza was born in New York City on November 20, 1799 to Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. Unlike her mother (who was called Eliza as a nickname), her name was Eliza, not Elizabeth; the first name Eliza was given on her baptismal and marriage records.
She was a sick infant, about whom Hamilton troubled himself as he began to find solace in his family in the late 1790s. While home with the children in his wife's absence, Hamilton wrote of his three-year-old daughter, "Eliza pouts and plays, and displays more and more her ample stock of Caprice."
She was the sister of Philip Hamilton, Angelica Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton Jr., James Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton, William S. Hamilton, and Philip Hamilton (the second).
Eliza was only four years old when her father engaged in the duel with Aaron Burr that ended his life. She was one of more than twenty friends and family members of Hamilton to see him in his last hours, and was one of the last sights Hamilton saw as his wife lined all seven children at the foot of the bed so Hamilton could see them before he died. Despite this, she and her mother were not a part of Hamilton's funeral processions.
Eliza married Sidney Augustus Holly on July 19, 1825, and they remained married until his death in 1842. Holly, a merchant in New York City, was one of eight children of David Holly (1768–1843), a large land owner in Stamford, Connecticut. Holly's family, descended from one of Stamford's earliest settlers in 1642, was prominent in business and local government.
Prior to 1833, Eliza and her husband lived at The Grange (now the Hamilton Grange National Memorial) with her mother, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. Eliza and her mother remained very close for all her life. In a letter written by her mother in December 1832, Eliza was described as being like her father: "You don't know how important you are to me. You step in the steps of your father's kindness, and the more you are with me, the more I see that you are like him."
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