23 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

Charlotte Saunders Cushman (23 Jul 1816 – 18 Feb 1876 | Boston MA – Boston MA) stage actress, operatic contralto singer, played male and female parts, namesake for Charlotte Cushman Club (1907), became Charlotte Cushman Foundation (2000).


Mary Prudence Wells Smith (23 Jul 1840 – 17 Dec 1930 | Attica NY – Greenfield MA) feminist, children’s author, local historian, women’s rights activist, women’s history advocate.


Harriet Williams Russell Strong (23 Jul 1844 – 06 Sep 1926 | Buffalo NY – Whittier CA) suffragist, agriculturist, conservationist, philanthropist, women’s rights activist, dam and reservoir series inventor / innovator.


Sophia Cook Amos Zimmerman (23 Jul 1856 – 23 Nov 1930 | Syracuse NY – Syracuse NY) missionary, philanthropist, religious / educational patron, president of Woman’s Missionary Society of First English Lutheran Church.


Barbara Deming (23 Jul 1917 – 02 Aug 1984 | New York NY – Sugarloaf Key FL) poet, author, feminist, advocate of non-violent social change.