27 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

Matilda Ann [Linda] Judson Richards (27 Jul 1841 – 16 Apr 1930 | West Potsdam NY – Boston MA) nurse, author, memoirist, nursing educator, first professional trained US nurse, established nursing schools in US and Japan, created first system for keeping individual medical records for hospitalized patients.


Helen Gerrells Stoddard (27 Jul 1850 – 31 Dec 1940 | Sheboygan WI – Dallas TX) educator, politician, community activist, Texas Women’s University co-founder, Women’s Christian Temperance Union leader, first woman to run for Congress in California.


Elizabeth Ann Plankinton (27 Jul 1853 – 1923 | Milwaukee WI – Lucerne CHE) humanitarian, philanthropist, artists / artisans patron, funded illustrated volume of Plankinton Memorial Book, funded first YWCA building in Milwaukee, aka Miss Lizzie and the Municipal Patroness.


Lucy Maynard Salmon (27 Jul 1853 – 14 Feb 1927 | Fulton NY – Poughkeepsie NY) author, historian, professor of history, new social history advocate.


Augusta Stowe Gullen (27 Jul 1857 – 25 Sep 1943 | Mount Pleasant ON – Toronto ON) physician, social reformer, women’s rights activist, first woman to gain a medical degree in Canada, Women’s College Hospital co-founder.