19 May | Herstorical.Reflections

Sarah Miriam Peale (19 May 1800 – 04 Feb 1885 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) still-life / portrait painter.


Margaret Junkin Preston (19 May 1820 – 28 Mar 1897 | Milton PA – Baltimore MD) poet, essayist, memoirist, Confederate, blind later in life.


Fidelia Bridges (19 May 1834 – 14 May 1923 | Salem MA – Canaan CT) visual artist, plein-air painter, watercolorist.


Catharine [Kate] Furbish (19 May 1834 – 06 Dec 1931 | Exeter NH – Brunswick ME) botanist, illustrator, watercolorist, co-founded Maine Botanical Society.


Mary Clare de Graffenried (19 May 1849 – 26 Apr 1921 | Macon GA – Washington DC) author, social investigator / reformer.