Eliza Ann McIntosh Reid
Eliza Ann McIntosh Reid (October 30, 1841 — January 8, 1926) was a Canadian churchworker and clubwoman, and an advocate for women's rights. Early life Eliza Ann McIntosh was born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of Nicholas C. McIntosh and Margaret Brown McIntosh. Her parents were from Montrose, Angus in Scotland; her father was a cabinetmaker. The McIntoshs were members of the Unitarian Church from early in Eliza's life. Two of Eliza Ann McIntosh's sisters married to George Washington Stephens, Sr., and George Washington Stephens, Jr. was her nephew. Her sister Frances McIntosh Stephens and another nephew were lost in the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. Career Eliza Ann McIntosh Reid was a leader in the Montreal Unitarian Church for decades, as director of the church's Unity Club and founder (in 1898) of the church's Young People's Alliance. She and her husband raised funds towards the building of the Church of the Messiah, and Eliza Ann Reid was on the board of managers for the new church. "So much of her life was lived for the church and so much of the inspiration of her many outside good works had its source in the church and in the life