11 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

Margaret [Peggy] Shippen Arnold (11 Jul 1760 – 24 Aug 1804 | Philadelphia PA – London UK) Loyalist family member, highest paid British spy during American Revolution, second wife of / co-conspirator with traitor Benedict Arnold.


Jane Aitken (11 Jul 1764 – 29 Aug 1832 | Paisley SCT – Germantown PA) printer, publisher, bookbinder, bookseller, first US woman to print English translation of Christian Bible.


Susan Bogert Warner (11 Jul 1819 – 17 Mar 1885 | New York NY – Highland Falls NY) novelist, hymnist, teacher, religious / children’s fiction author, aka Elizabeth Wetherel.


Phebe W. Sudlow (11 Jul 1831 – 08 Jun 1922 | Poughkeepsie NY – Davenport IA) autodidact, pioneer educator, free public library funder, first female US public school principal / school superintendent, first female president of Iowa School Teachers’ Association, first female professor of University of Iowa.


Katherine Abbott [Kate] Sanborn (11 Jul 1839 – 09 Jul 1917 | Hanover NH – Medway MA) poet, author, teacher, humorist, memoirist, public speaker, calendar publisher, children’s school founder, newspaper / magazine correspondent.