Rebecca Gratz

Rebecca Gratz
portrait by Thomas Sully, 1831
Born	(1781-03-04)March 4, 1781 Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Died	August 27, 1869(1869-08-27) (aged 88) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Resting place	Mikveh Israel Cemetery

Rebecca Gratz (March 4, 1781 – August 27, 1869) was a Jewish American educator and philanthropist in 19th-century America. She was a member of the Gratz family, who settled in the United States before the Revolutionary War.^[1]