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![Eliza J.C. Gilbert](https://cdn1.historyit.com/iiif/2/5edfd98ccc4f69.54593064/65428dc980c977.99155819.png/full/400,/0/default.jpg)
Eliza J.C. Gilbert was elected to the Town School Committee of Keene, New Hampshire in 1879. Gilbert was the president of the New Hampshire Woman Suffrage Association. That organization placed a petition before the state legislature in 1889 requesting equal suffrage for tax-paying women of the state. Gilbert was also a specialist of local orchids.