Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton was Alexander's Hamilton's wife, she was known as Eliza or Betsey and was the co-founder and deputy director of the first orphanage in New York City. Hamilton was the second daughter of the Revolutionary War general Philip Schuyler and Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler, Elizabeth had grew up home schooled and she grew up at her father's new mansion in Albany and their summer home at Old Sarotoga. Eliza and Alexander were married on December 14th and had given birth to her first child, Philip in 1782 and seven more over the next two decades and they would raise a daughter for 10 years. Alexander was famous in the American Government and was there following the Declaration of Independence and is considered one of the founders of the American republic. Elizabeth was great at running the household efficiently, Elizabeth and her husband did spend some days apart and what happened was in the summer, Hamilton was having an affair with Maria Reynolds, when revealed after 6 years he was ashamed and tried to fix up the act. Schuyler did charitable work and helped find the first orphanage in 1806, she had hired biographers to work on her husband's story, and hired assistants to help organize his work, and she wore a bag around her neck with pieces of a sonnet he wrote for her in 1780. Elizabeth eventually moves to Washington, D.C. in 1848 and was living with her daughter, she even became a celebrated guest in the white house, and died a few months after her 97th birthday.