28 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

Mother Benedicta [Sybilla] Riepp (28 Jun 1825 – 15 Mar 1862 | Waal DEU – St. Cloud MN) Benedictine nun, educator, missionary to Pennsylvania Germans.


Eliza Edmunds Hewitt (28 Jun 1851 – 24 Apr 1920 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) writer, hymnist, educator, Sunday School superintendent.


Helen Francis Hood (28 Jun 1863 – 22 Jan 1949 | Chelsea MA – Brookline MA) pianist, composer, teacher.


Alice May Douglas (28 Jun 1865 – 06 Jan 1943 | Bath ME – Bath ME) poet, peace activist, children’s author, newspaper editor, founder and composer of Peace Makers’ Band, head of Women’s Christian Temperance Union’s Peace and Arbitration.


Grace Rainey Rogers (28 Jun 1867 – 09 May 1943 | Cleveland OH – Greenwich CT) heiress, art collector, philanthropist.