24 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

Sarah Bradlee Fulton (24 Dec 1740 – 09 Nov 1835 | Dorchester MA – Medford MA) political activist, active member of Daughters of Liberty, aka Mother of the Boston Tea Party, volunteer spy and nurse in American Revolutionary War.


Esther Clark Short (24 Dec 1806 – 28 Jun 1862 | Tioga County PA – Vancouver WA) Algonquin-German-American pioneer landowner, businesswoman, aka The Pioneer Mother, Vancouver, Washington settler / co-founder.


Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (24 Dec 1807 – 02 Nov 1834 | Centre DE – Tecumseh MI) poet, writer, children’s anti-slavery author, first US female writer to focus on abolition of slavery as her principal theme.


Jane Marie Bancroft Robinson (24 Dec 1847 – 29 May 1932 | West Stockbridge MA – Detroit MI) author, scholar, historian, professor, genealogist, philanthropist.

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