05 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

Eliza Chappell Porter (05 Nov 1807 – 01 Jan 1888 | Geneseo NY – Santa Barbara CA) educator, Civil War nurse, social activist / reformer, normal school founder, Chicago’s first public school teacher. 


Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey Bacon (05 Nov 1833 – 27 Jan 1906 | Brooklyn NY – New Haven CT) nurse, author, memoirist, letter correspondent, Civil War Union nurse, co-founded Connecticut Training School for Nurses at New Haven Hospital.


Ella Wheeler Wilcox (05 Nov 1850 – 30 Oct 1919 | Johnstown WI – Short Beach CT) poet, author.


Ida Minerva Tarbell (05 Nov 1857 – 06 Jan 1944 | Hatch Hollow PA – Bridgeport CT) author, teacher, journalist, feminist in actions, anti-suffragist views.


Hannah Jane Patterson (05 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1937 | Smithton PA – Pittsburgh PA) suffragist, social reformer.

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