Sarah Mapps Douglass (09 Sep 1806 – 08 Sep 1882 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) African-American artist, author, educator, abolitionist, public lecturer, friendship letter correspondent / illustrator.

Mary Greenhow Lee (09 Sep 1819 – 25 May 1907 | Richmond VA – Baltimore MD) author, Civil War diarist, Confederate activist, known for despising / snubbing Union soldiers and Northerners.

Lucy Jane Rider Meyer (09 Sep 1849 – 16 Mar 1922 | New Haven VT – Chicago IL) writer, editor, hymnist, educator, social worker, philanthropist, Deaconess leader, chemistry professor.

Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin (09 Sep 1850 – 21 Jun 1930 | Brooklyn NY – Nantucket MA) artist, educator, New Woman, philanthropist, first American female MFA, first female student Hague Academy of Fine Arts, founded co-ed trade / crafts school on Nantucket.

Mary Austin (09 Sep 1868 – 13 Aug 1934 | Carlinville IL – Santa Fe NM) feminist, naturalist, mystic, author, “woman of genius,” leading literary figure of her time.