Name: White, Armenia S. (1817-1916)
Title: Member, Society of Friends (Quaker), Concord, NH
President (first), New Hampshire Woman Suffrage Association
Co-author, call for woman suffrage convention in NH (held 1868, Eagle Hall, Concord, NH)
President (first), New Hampshire Women's Christian Temperance Union
Member, Board of Trustees, New Hampshire Centennial Home for the Aged
Member, Board of Trustees, Orpahn's Home, Franklin
Member, Board of Trustees, Mercy Home, Manchester
Member Universalist Church
Other Names: Aldrich, Armenia Smith
Born: 11/01/1817
Birthplace: Mendon, MA
Died: 05/071916
Death Location: Concord, NH
Residence: Mendon, MA 1817-1830
Boscawen, NH 1830-1836
Concord, NH 1836-1916
Nationality: American
Occupation: Activist
Philanthropist
Abolitionist
Suffragist
Father: Aldrich, John (1785-1865)
Mother: Smith, Harriet (1795-1872)
Relations: Grandmother: Hope Doten Smith
Granddaughter: Charlotte White Webster
Associations with people in the women's movement, including: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone Blackwell, Mary A. Livermore, Julia Ward Howe
Spouse: Nathaniel White (1811-1880), November 1, 1836
Children: John Aldrich, born March 31, 1838; died November 26, 1899; m. (1) Elizabeth M. Corning; (2) Ella H. Corning
Harriet Sarah (adopted), born January 24, 1845; died October 9, 1934; m. David P. Dearborn
Armenia Emily, born March 27, 1847; died October 9, 1923; m. Horatio Hobbs
Elizabeth H., born 1849; died December 12, 1887; m. Charles H. Newhall
Annie Frances, born 1852; died 1865
Nathaniel, born June 8, 1855; died October 4, 1904; m. Helen Eastman
Selden F., born 1857, died inf.
Benjamin Cheney, born January 16, 1861; died November 14, 1935; m. Mabel Norton Chase
Notes: Donated White Park to the City of Concord.
Abolitionist; White Farm served as a underground railroad station, 1850s.
English ancestry, descended from Geoge Aldrich, among first settlers of Milford, MA.
Known as New Hampshire's "first lady of the land" (Granite Monthly, June 1916).
Henry H. Metcalf, "New Hampshire Women" (1895): "The Universalist church in Concord and at large, and manifold charities, local and general, have ever commanded her earnest sympathy and generous aid," p. 9.
James O. Lyford, Editor. History of Concord, New Hampshire, p. 765-770 -- Nathaniel and Armenia White became pillars of the Universalist Society in Concord shortly after its establishment in 1842. The church was renamed "White Memorial Church" in 1885, in memory of Nathaniel and in honor of Armenia.
Julia Ward Howe, Editor. Representative Women of New England. (Boston, MA: New England Historicla Publishing Company, 1904), 134-136.
Ezra S. Stearns, Editor. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire. (Chicago, IL: Lewis Publising Company, 1908), 1627-1628.
"Capital City Women," The Granite Monthly, 47(May-June, 1915)5&6, 297-298.
Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives
Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, New Hampshire