07 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

Mary Lua Adelia Davis Treat (07 Sep 1830 – 11 Apr 1923 | Trumansburg NY – Pembroke NY) writer, botanist, naturalist, entomologist, utopian community member, collaborated with Charles Darwin, aka ‘One of Darwin’s Women’.


Alice Chipman Dewey (07 Sep 1858 – 14 Jul 1927 | Fenton MI – New York NY) PhD, author, mother, educator, philosopher, world traveler, women’s right activist, letter correspondent, co-founded Laboratory School with husband John Dewey.


Laura Coombs Hills (07 Sep 1859 – 21 Feb 1952 | Newburyport MA – Massachusetts) designer, illustrator, watercolorist, miniature portrait painter.


Anna Mary Robertson Moses (07 Sep 1860 – 13 Dec 1961 | Greenwich NY – Hoosick Falls NY) farmer, folk artist, aka Grandma Moses, needlework artist.


Nellie Arnold Plummer (07 Sep 1860 – 01 Jan 1933 | Ellicott’s Mills MD – Hyatsville MD) author, teacher, former slave, first female student at Wayland Seminary, biographical / autobiographical writer.