Florence Peshine (1870-1956)

Florence Peshine (April 16, 1870 – November 22, 1956) was a leader in the woman suffrage movement and advocated women's higher education. She was one of the first women to serve as a Trustee of Rutgers University. She willed more than $1,000,000 to establish the Wells Phillips Eagleton and Florence Peshine Eagleton Foundation, now the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University.

She was born in Newark, New Jersey to Elizabeth Mary Jellip and Francis Stratford Eagleton. She married a man twice her age, and that marriage ended in divorce. In 1913 she married Wells Phillips Eagleton (1865-1946), a neurosurgeon.

She died on November 22, 1956.