Anna White (21 January 1831 – 16 December 1910) was a Shaker Eldress, social reformer, author, and hymn writer.

"[4] She went to a Quaker school in Poughkeepsie, New York, called Mansion Square Seminary,[1] and had a strong social conscience influenced by both her faith and her parents.

[2] At seventeen, White learned the trade of tailoring, and helped her mother distribute alms from the Quakers to the poor of New York.

[2] The resolutions written at the Mount Lebanon meeting in 1905 were forwarded to The Hague, and subsequently adopted, and were brought to President Theodore Roosevelt by White personally.

[4] After collecting more signatures than any other woman in the state in a petition for disarmament, White was appointed vice president of the New York of the Women’s International League of Peace and Arbitration.