28 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

Louise Amelia Knapp Clappe Smith (28 Jul 1819 – 09 Feb 1906 | Elizabeth NJ – Morristown NJ) author, memoirist, schoolteacher, letter correspondent, pen name: Dame Shirley.


Mary Osburn Adkinson (28 July 1843 – 29 June 1918 | Rush County OH – New Orleans LA) pastor’s wife, temperance reformer, sewing / dressmaking university instructor.


Louisine Waldron Elder Havemeyer (28 Jul 1855 – 06 Jan 1929 | New York NY – New York NY) feminist, suffragist, memoirist, art collector, artist’s model, philanthropist, patron of American Impressionist Mary Cassatt.


Alice Duer Miller (28 Jul 1874 – 22 Aug 1942 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, novelist, suffragist, screenwriter, women’s activist, active political observer.


Rachael Robinson Elmer (28 Jul 1878 – 13 Feb 1919 | Rokeby [now Ferrisburgh] VT – New York NY) artist, illustrator, art postcard painter, WWI poster artist, WWI Bird and Tree Club fundraiser, aka ‘The Woman who Changed the World of American Postcards.’