08 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Phillis Wheatley (08 May 1753 – 05 Dec 1784 | Gambia or Senegal AF – Boston MA) poet, letter correspondent, first female African-American published author.

Ella Elvira Gibson (08 May 1821 – 08 Mar 1901 | Winchendon MA – Barre MA) poet, editor, educator, essayist, Freethinker, pamphleteer, ordained minister, first female US Army chaplain.

Augusta Evans Wilson (08 May 1835 – 09 May 1909 | Columbus GA – Mobile AL) author, novelist, Southern literature pioneer.

Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg (08 May 1845 – 29 Mar 1937 | New Lisbon OH – Philadelphia PA) author, club woman, civic leader, social activist, genealogist, political family member.

Mary Alice Bird Babb (08 May 1850 – 21 Nov 1926 | Mount Pleasant IA – Aurora IL) women’s education activist, founding member Philanthropic Educational Organization [PEO].

07 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Juliet Ann Opie Hopkins (07 May 1818 – 09 Mar 1890 | Jefferson County WV – Washington DC) US Civil War Confederate nurse, aka Florence Nightingale of the South.

Harriet Starr Cannon (07 May 1823 – 29 Mar 1896 | Charleston SC – Peekskill NY) religious, school founder, children’s advocate, spiritual leader / organizer, founded Episcopalian Sisterhood of St Mary.

Euphemia Vale Blake (07 May 1824 – 21 Oct 1904 | Hastings UK – Brooklyn NY) critic, author, editor, journalist, British-born American.

Varina Banks Howell Davis (07 May 1826 – 16 Oct 1906 | Natchez MS – New York NY) writer, memoirist, columnist, Confederate States First Lady, post-war reconciliation activist.

Margaret Elizabeth [Lizzie] Crozier French (07 May 1851 – 14 May 1926 | Knoxville TN – Washington DC) educator, suffragist, social reform activist.

06 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (06 May 1823 – 01 Aug 1902 | Mattapoisett MA – Manhattan NY) poet, novelist.

Phebe Coffin Hanaford (06 May 1829 – 02 Jun 1921 | Siasconset MA – Rochester NY) poet, author, minister, suffragist, Universalist.

Estelle Skidmore Doremus (06 May 1830 – 21 May 1905 | New York NY – Brooklyn NY) patron of arts, Daughters of the American Revolution regent / charter member, leading member of Americans in Paris during Second French Empire.

Mary Clemmer Ames (06 May 1831 – 18 Aug 1884 | Utica NY – Washington DC) poet, author, journalist.

Annetta Seabury Dresser (06 May 1844 – 10 May 1893 | Boston MA – Boston MA) author, speaker, pioneering New Thought practitioner.

05 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Judith Sargent Murray (05 May 1751 – 09 Jun 1820 | Gloucester MA – Natchez MS) poet, essayist, feminist, playwright, letter writer, pioneering women’s rights advocate.

Ella Sterling Mighels (05 May 1853 – 10 Dec 1934 | Mormon Island CA – San Francisco CA) author, California pioneer, literary historian, pen name: Aurora Esmerelda.

Mary Virginia McCormick (05 May 1861 – 24 May 1941 | Chicago IL – Pacific Palisades CA) heiress, traveler, millionaire recluse, declared mentally incompetent at age 19, daughter of industrialist Cyrus McCormick.

Adelaide Florence Chase (05 May 1862 – 23 Feb 1900 | Fitchburg MA – Boston MA) author, editor, historian, publisher, member of US Women’s Relief Corps.

Elizabeth Cochran Seaman (05 May 1864 – 27 Jan 1922 | Cochran’s Mills PA – New York NY) inventor, novelist, industrialist, charity worker, pen name Nellie Bly, pioneering investigative journalist.

04 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Elizabeth Surratt (04 May 1823 – 07 Jul 1865 | Waterloo MD – Washington DC) boarding house owner / operator, historical / political folk figure, tried as Lincoln assassination co-conspirator, first American female executed by hanging.

Julia Britton Hooks (04 May 1852 – 10 Mar 1942 | Frankfort KY – Memphis TN) pianist, social worker, civil rights leader, juvenile court officer, second female African-American US college graduate, founded Julia Hooks Cottage School and Julia Hooks School of Music.

Mary Ellis Peltz (04 May 1896 – 24 Oct 1981 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, editor, author, music / drama critic, founding editor Opera News magazine.

Joy Bright Hancock (04 May 1898 – 20 Aug 1986 | Wildwood NJ – Bethesda MD) pilot, WAVES activist, early female Naval officer, autobiographical author.

Bernice Mildred Goetz (04 May 1909 – 30 Dec 1958 | Cleveland OH – Brooklyn NY) poet, author, teacher, lecturer, explorer.

03 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Laura Matilda Towne (03 May 1825 – 22 Feb 1901 | Pittsburgh PA – St Helena Island SC ) educator, abolitionist, first freedmen’s school founder.

Anne Etheridge Hooks (03 May 1839 – 23 Jan 1913 | Detroit MI – Georgetown VA) aka Gentle Annie, Civil War Union nurse / vivandiere, one of two women to receive Kearny Cross.

George Madden Martin (03 May 1866 – 30 Nov 1946 | Louisville KY – Louisville KY) novelist, social reform / civil rights / prohibition activist, Commission on Interracial Co-operation charter member, Association of Southern Women for Prevention of Lynching leader / advocate.

Angel De Cora (03 May 1871 – 06 Feb 1919 | Thurston NE – Northampton MA) Winnebago teacher, painter, illustrator, Native American rights activist, aka Hinook-Mahiwi-Kalinaka [Fleecy Cloud Floating in Place].

Maud O’Farrell Swartz (03 May 1879 – 22 Feb 1937 | County Kildare IE – Brooklyn NY) Irish-American labor activist, president of Women’s Trade Union League [1922 to 1926], Secretary of the NY State Department of Labor under Industrial Commissioner Frances Perkins, first woman and first trade unionist to hold that position.

02 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Rhoda Lavinia [Vinnie] Goodell (02 May 1839 – 31 Mar 1880 | Utica NY – Janesville WI) first licensed female lawyer in Wisconsin State.

Katharine Putnam Hooker (02 May 1849 – 07 Jan 1935 | Milwaukee WI – Santa Barbara CA) socialite, philanthropist, travel writer.

Margaret Hill McCarter (02 May 1860 – 31 Aug 1938 | Carthage IN – Topeka KS) teacher, novelist, founded Western Sorosis women’s club.

Julia Barnett Rice (02 May 1860 – 18 Nov 1929 | New Orleans LA – New York NY) musician, physician, civic / social activist, documented unnecessary tugboat whistling / aided passage of 1907 Bennett Act, founding president of The Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise, founded SSUN children’s branch for NYC Board of Education.

Alice Bertha Kroeger (02 May 1864 – 31 Oct 1909 | St. Louis MO – Philadelphia PA) author, lecturer, librarian, professor, student of Melvil Dewey, founder / director of library science program at Drexel University [1892-1909].

01 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Tabitha Moffat Brown (01 May 1780 – 04 May 1858 | Brimfield MA – Forest Grove OR) educator, pioneer emigrant, social reformer, aka Mother Symbol of Oregon, orphanage co-founder / facilitator, founded Tualatin Academy [later Pacific University].

Fidelia Fiske (01 May 1816 – 26 Jul 1864 | Shelburne MA – Shelburne MA) memoirist, religious missionary, women’s educational activist, Mount Holyoke Seminary college teacher, founder / first principal of Nestorian Female Seminary in Persia (Iran).

Emily Howard Jennings Stowe (01 May 1831 – 30 Apr 1903 | Norwich Township ON – Toronto ON) educator, suffragist, Quaker / then Unitarian, Canada’s first practicing female homeopathic physician, founding member of Toronto Women’s Literary Guild, founding president of Dominion Women’s Enfranchisement Association [became Canadian Suffrage Association].

Mary Harris Jones (01 May 1837 – 11 Nov 1930 | Cork IE – Adelphi MD) author, dressmaker, school teacher, labor activist, aka Mother Jones, community organizer, autobiographical author.

Martha Jane Burke Cannary (01 May 1852 – 01 Aug 1903 | Princeton MO – Terry SD) folk figure, memoirist, aka Calamity Jane, frontierswoman, professional scout.

30 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Abba Louisa Goold Woolson (30 Apr 1838 – 06 Feb 1921 | Windham Center ME – Portland ME) poet, author, lecturer, historian, women’s dress reform advocate.

Mary Scott Lord Dimmock Harrison (30 Apr 1858 – 05 Jan 1948 | Honesdale PA – New York NY) former US Presidential First Lady, second wife of Benjamin Harrison.

Mary Blanche O’Sullivan (30 Apr 1860 – 1940 | Saint John NB – Boston MA) editor, writer, teacher, naturalized American, editor-in-chief of Donahoe’s Magazine, member of New England Woman’s Press Association.

Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel (30 Apr 1866 – 22 Jun 1936 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) pioneering female dentist, founded Women’s Dental Association of the United States.

Belle Skinner (30 Apr 1866 – 10 Apr 1928 | Williamsburg MA – Paris FR) arts patron, humanitarian, philanthropist, architectural restorationist, musical instrument collector, aka La Maraine [Fairy Godmother].

29 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Helen Louise Chapel Bullock (29 Apr 1836 – 1927 | Norwich NY – Norwich NY) suffragist, philanthropist, musical educator, temperance activist, women’s prison reformer.

Adeline [Addie] Lucia Hart Ballou (29 Apr 1837 – 10 Aug 1916 | Chagrin Falls OH – San Francisco CA) poet, artist, author, lecturer, suffragist.

Caroline [Carrie] Watson Fleming (29 Apr 1844 – 19 Jul 1931 | Fairmont WV – Fairmont WV) First Lady of West Virginia, civic / cultural / religious activist.

Margherita Arlina Hamm (29 Apr 1867 – 17 Dec 1907 | St Stephen NB – New York NY) author, journalist, suffragist, magazine editor, war correspondent.

Katherine Golden Bitting (29 Apr 1868 – 1937 | Stratford ON – Lafayette IN) author, food chemist, professor, food preservation expert.