28 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

Mary Mason Lyon (28 Feb 1797 – 05 Mar 1849 | Buckland MA – South Hadley MA) chemist, education activist, founded Wheaton Female Seminar [later Wheaton College], founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary [later renamed Mount Holyoke College].


Sybil Jones Jones (28 Feb 1808 – 04 Dec 1873 | Brunswick ME – Dirigo Corner ME) Quaker minister, foreign missionary.


Cynthia Hicks Van Name Leonard (28 Feb 1828 – 10 Apr 1908 | Buffalo NY – Rutherford NJ) writer, aid worker, suffragist, spiritualist, social reformer, first female NYC Mayoral candidate, founded first IA soldiers home, founded Illinois Good Samaritan Society, created women’s homeless shelters, advocated women prison guards for women.


Sarah Ida Fowler Morgan Dawson (28 Feb 1842 – 05 May 1909 | New Orleans LA – Paris FR) folk figure, Civil War diarist.


Elizabeth Gardiner Glendower Evans (28 Feb 1856 – 12 Dec 1937 | New Rochelle NY – Brookline MA) memoirist, social activist, penal reformer, co-founder of WILPF [Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom].