04 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

Helen Stuart Campbell (04 Jul 1839 – 22 Jul 1918 | Lockport NY – Dedham MA) author, journalist, educator, literary editor, women’s labor activist, children’s short fiction writer.


Mary Edmonia Lewis (04 Jul 1844 – 17 Sep 1907 | Greenbush NY – London UK) sculptor, African-American Haitian-Mississauga Ojibwe, first African-American / Native American female to achieve international fame and recognition as fine arts sculptor.


Annie Haven Thwing (04 Jul 1851 – 05 Jun 1940 | Roxbury MA – Roxbury MA) Boston historian, nonfiction author, children’s book writer.


Nellie Grant Jones (04 Jul 1855 – 30 Aug 1922 | St Louis MO – Chicago IL) US Presidential daughter, social / literary figure.


Jessie A. Ackermann (04 Jul 1857 – 31 Mar 1951 | Frankfort IL – Pomona CA) writer, feminist, traveler, journalist, social reformer, American WCTU leader, second round-the-world missionary for World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.