31 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

Anna Bartlett Warner (31 Aug 1827 – 22 Jan 1915 | Long Island NY – Highland Falls NY) poet, author, hymnist, children’s song writer.


Esther Pugh (31 Aug 1834 – 29 Mar 1908 | Cincinnati OH – Philadelphia PA) Quaker, temperance reformer, national WCTU treasurer, editor / publisher Our Union temperance journal.


Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (31 Aug 1842 – 10 Jun 1906 | London UK – New York NY) author, novelist, feminist, suffragist, physician.


Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (31 Aug 1842 – 13 Mar 1924 | Boston MA – Boston MA) editor, publisher, journalist, suffragist, civil rights leader, anti-lynching activist.


Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (31 Aug 1844 – 28 Jan 1911 | Boston MA – Boston MA) author, essayist, intellectual, Spiritualist, social activist, women’s clothing reform advocate, aka Mary Adams, Lily Phelps, Mary Gray Phelps.