Sincerely, Kate Breslin, President and CEO with the Board of Trustees and Staff of the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy Louisa Lee Schuyler: A Life Well-lived; A Legacy that Endures In February 1926, the final year of her excep- Students of the period (1870 to 1926) agree tional life, Louisa Lee Schuyler wrote to the that any list of outstanding leaders in the field of Russell Sage Founda. [...] then that the New York Times, in marking her passing later that year, included the headline Among Louisa’s greatest achievements “Friend of the Poor.” Still, “friend” was clearly was the founding of the State Charities Aid insufficient, and did not convey all that she had Association (SCAA) in 1872, in response to done over the years for the people living in pov- the abhorrent conditions she obser. [...] Item number one featured the law brings to us, that our work is now established improved conditions to be found within the under a firm foundation, and that the principle many poor houses throughout the state, the for which we contend, the right of the people to original objective of the organization. [...] Louisa’s Legacy Herald of the modern age of “scien- potential resources of the public purse.” She tific” philanthropy, Louisa was among had, in fact, encouraged Folks to enter the other notable leaders in the field of reform administration of Mayor Seth Law in social welfare who, toward the close of the 1901 as Commissioner of Public Charities. [...] Nicholas Murray Butler (who had married a Schuyler) explained the basis of the degree: Louisa Lee Schuyler, a pioneer in the service of noble women to the state; founder of the State Charities Aid Association and of the system of visitation of state institutions by citizens; origi- nator of the first American Training School for Nurses; initiating and successfully advocating legislation for the st.
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