05 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

Rebecca Mann Pennell Dean (05 Oct 1821 – 05 Mar 1890 | Utica NY – New York NY) artist, professor, Antioch College co-founder.


Sara J. Hatcher Duncan (05 Oct 1869 – 18 Jul 1906 | Cahaba AL – Selma AL) author, schoolteacher, African-American social activist, founded Missionary Searchlight newspaper, president of African Methodist Episcopal Church’s Women’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society.


Elizabeth Coleman White (05 Oct 1871 – 11 Nov 1954 | New Lisbon NJ – Whitesbog NJ) agricultural specialist, child care / child labor educational activist, co-developer of commercialized cultivated blueberry, first female in American Cranberry Association, organized New Jersey Blueberry Cooperative Association.


Berenice Crumb Wyer (05 Oct 1873 – 29 Jan 1960 | St. Louis MO – Brookline MA) pianist, composer, lecturer, art song writer, composed for piano / organ / violin.


Belle Linder Moskowitz (05 Oct 1877 – 02 Jan 1933 | Harlem NY – New York NY) social worker / reformer, press agent / political advisor, women’s rights activist / organizer.

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