23 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

Sarah Jane Lippincott (23 Sep 1823 – 20 Apr 1904 | Pompey NY – New Rochelle NY) poet, editor, novelist, essayist, journalist, correspondent, pseudonym Grace Greenwood.


Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin (23 Sep 1838 – 09 Jun 1927 | Homer OH – Bredon UK) feminist, journalist, suffragist leader, spiritualist healer, women’s rights activist, first female candidate for US Presidency, first woman to found weekly newspaper, first woman to own Wall Street brokerage firm.


Helen Almira Shafer (23 Sep 1839 – 20 Jan 1894 | Newark NJ – Wellesley MA) mathematician, mathematics professor, president of Wellesley College.


Emily Warren Roebling (23 Sep 1843 – 28 Feb 1903 | Cold Spring NY – Trenton NJ) attorney, essayist, social activist, women’s rights advocate, autodidact civil engineer, key figure / facilitator in Brooklyn Bridge completion.


Ellen Amanda Hayes (23 Sep 1851 – 27 Oct 1930 | Granville OH – Wellesley MA) author, novelist, biographer, astronomer, Socialist, suffragist, radical activist, temperance advocate, outspoken social commentator, mathematician, women’s educational rights activist, one of first six females in New York Mathematical Society [later the American Mathematical Society].