10 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

Anne Robertson Johnson Cockrill (10 Feb 1757 – 13 Oct 1821 | Wake County NC – Nashville TN) pioneer landowner, first female to receive land grant in Tennessee.


Mildred Childe Lee (10 Feb 1845 – 27 Mar 1905 | Arlington VA – New Orleans LA) folk figure, Confederate family member, General Robert E. Lee’s youngest daughter.


Marguerite Milton Wells (10 Feb 1872 – 12 Aug 1959 | Milwaukee WI – Minneapolis MN) writer, suffragist, social reformer, MN League of Women Voters state / national president.


Mary Rowena [Rena] Maverick Green (10 Feb 1874 – 29 Nov 1962 | Sedalia MO – San Antonio TX) editor, sculptor, suffragist, memoirist, publisher, watercolorist, social activist, one of first women on San Antonio School Board, co-founder / first president of San Antonio Conservation Society.


Edith Clarke (10 Feb 1883 – 29 Oct 1959 | Howard County MD – Olney MD) author, essayist, first US female electrical engineer, first US female professor of electrical engineering, first woman to earn MS in electrical engineering from MIT, invented / patented Clarke calculator / Clarke transformation, first female Fellow of American Institute of Electrical Engineers.