15 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (15 Sep 1824 – 21 Mar 1906 | Boston MA – Milton MA) poet, children’s author, Christian Scientist, pen name: A. D. T. Whitney.


Sarah Knowles Bolton (15 Sep 1841 – 21 Feb 1916 | Farmington CT – Cleveland OH) poet, writer, biographer, children’s author.


Mary French Swarthout (15 Sep 1844 – unknown | Sangerfield NY – Chicago IL) educator, maths textbooks author, Authors’ Club member, vice-president of Illinois Women’s Press Club.


Anna Winlock (15 Sep 1857 – 20 Dec 1904 | Cambridge MA – Boston MA) computer, astronomer, one of the women referred to as ‘The Harvard Computers’ [drawing by Sara Netherway for Cosmos Magazine].


Mary-Cooke Branch Munford (15 Sep 1865 – 03 Jul 1938 | Richmond VA – Richmond VA) educator, suffragist, civil rights activist, labor / health / education reformer.