Elizabeth Taylor Harper Flanagan

Elizabeth Jordan Whitehead Taylor Harper Flanagan named the city of Auburn. She is best remembered as the namesake of Elizabeth Harper Hall, at a young age writing her future husband Thomas Harper that the settlement should be named "Sweet Auburn, loveliest village on the plains".

Biography

Elizabeth Harper Flanagan was married twice, first to Thomas Harper, and after his death, to Christopher Flanagan. She had four children, two by each of her husbands.