Claim: Eliza Cooper Blaker, founder of the Teachers College of Indianapolis, had a father that was an abolitionist Quaker who died in 1869, when Eliza was fifteen.
Evidence: Founder, Teachers College of Indianapolis The eldest of three children, Eliza was raised in a family that struggled financially, especially after her father, an abolitionist Quaker, enlisted in the Union army during the American Civil War. He died in 1869, when Eliza was fifteen.