Elizabeth Ann Seton

American Roman Catholic educator and saint (1774–1821)

Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (August 28, 1774 – January 4, 1821) was an American Catholic educator, known as a founder of the country's parochial school system. Born in New York and reared as an Episcopalian, she married and had five children with her husband William Seton. She converted to Catholicism in 1805 and established the first Catholic girls' school in the nation in Emmitsburg, Maryland.

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