07 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

Tabitha Gilman Tenney (07 Apr 1762 – 02 May 1837 | Exeter NH – Exeter NH) author, novelist.


Mary Elizabeth Sigler Bunn (07 Apr 1788 – 31 Jul 1833 | Derry Township PA – Hunterdon County NJ) Married prosperous farm owner, member of well-to-do industrialist’s family.


Jane Evans Elliot (07 Apr 1820 – 05 Dec 1886 | Fayetteville NC – Ellerslie Plantation NC) Civil War and post-war diarist, three-volume diaries spanning four decades.


Anna T. Jeanes (07 Apr 1822 – 24 Sep 1907 | Philadelphia PA – Germantown PA) Quaker, philanthropist, educational activist, founding director of The Jeanes Fund [originally The Negro Rural School Fund].


Marjory Stoneman Douglas (07 Apr 1890 – 14 May 1998 | Minneapolis MN – Coconut Grove FL) writer, feminist, journalist, environmentalist.