04 Aug | Women.Words.Work

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Susanna Wright (04 Aug 1697 – 01 Dec 1784 | Lancashire UK – Wright’s Ferry PA) poet, pundit, author, pioneer, translator, landowner, entrepreneur, multi-linguist, first American female silk farmer / producer / exporter.

Clarissa C. Bryan Cook (04 Aug 1811 – 19 Feb 1879 | Sidney NY – Davenport IA) philanthropist, civic / religious / charitable activist, founded Clarissa Cook Library and Clarissa C. Cook Home for the Friendless [later Clarissa C. Cook Retirement Home].

Florence Newell Barbour (04 Aug 1866 – 24 Jul 1946 | Providence RI – Providence RI) pianist, lyricist, musician, composer.

Emily Helen Butterfield (04 Aug 1884 – 22 Mar 1958 | Algonac MI – Neebish Island MI) artist, editor, author, architect, feminist activist, children’s book writer, first licensed female architect in Michigan, pen-and-ink / watercolor illustrator.

Barbara Nachtrieb Grimes Armstrong (04 Aug 1890 – 18 Jan 1976 | San Francisco CA – Oakland CA) author, legal scholar, law professor, social insurance advocate.

03 Aug | Women.Words.Work

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Graceanna Lewis (03 Aug 1821 – 25 Feb 1912 | West Chester PA – Media PA) author, suffragist, naturalist, illustrator, ornithologist, Underground Railroad activist.

Nina Clifford (03 Aug 1851 – 14 Jul 1929 | Chatham ON – Detroit MI) madam, folk figure, brothel owner, born Johanna Crow.

Caroline [Carrie] Celestia Ingalls Swanzey (03 Aug 1870 – 02 Jun 1946 | Montgomery KS – Pennington SD) typesetter, folk / literary / pioneer figure.

Sophia Kindrick Alcorn (03 Aug 1883 – 28 Nov 1967 | Stanford KY – Stanford KY) educator, deaf-blind disability rights activist, invented Tadoma Method and Alcorn Symbols, American Association for the Blind (AFB) advocate, first female elder of Stanford Presbyterian Church.

Margaret [Maggie] Kuhn (03 Aug 1905 – 22 Apr 1995 | Buffalo NY – Philadelphia PA) writer, social activist, elder rights advocate, Gray Panther founder, autobiographical author.

02 Aug | Women.Words.Work

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Marie-Anne Gaboury Lagimodière (02 Aug 1780 – 14 Dec 1875 | Maskinongé QC – Saint-Boniface MB) pioneer / settler, Canadian folk figure, aka Grandmother of the Red River.

Hannah Jones Armstrong Wilcox (02 Aug 1810 – 19 Aug 1890 | Illinois US – Winterset IA) folk figure, Lincoln neighbor, Lincoln defended her son Duff in Almanac Trial.

Carrie Estelle Betzold Doheny (02 Aug 1875 – 30 Oct 1958 | Philadelphia PA – Los Angeles CA) philanthropist, library foundress, rare book collector, founded Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation, donated book collection to St John’s Seminary (Camarillo CA), funded construction of St Vincent’s Church (LA) and buildings at Loyola Marymount University (LA), former Doheny home Chester Place became Mount St Mary’s College campus, awarded title of Papal Countess (1939) by Pope Pius XII for her services to Catholic Church.

Mittie Maude Lena Gordon Nelson (02 Aug 1889 – 1961 | Webster Parish LA – Ethiopia) African-American, black nationalist, civil rights activist, established Peace Movement of Ethiopia.

Kate [Kathe] Steinitz (02 August 1889 – 07 April 1975 | Upper Silesia [now Poland] – Los Angeles CA) artist, art historian, focus on Bauhaus / Dadaist movement.

01 Aug | Women.Words.Work

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Anne Willing Bingham (01 Aug 1764 – 11 May 1801 | Philadelphia PA – Bermuda) socialite, artist’s model, letter correspondent.

Esther Sumner Damon (01 Aug 1814 – 11 Nov 1906 | Bridgewater VT – Plymouth VT) farmer, lay nurse, school teacher, seamstress, last American Revolutionary War widow state pensioner in US.

Maria Mitchell (01 Aug 1818 – 28 Jun 1889 | Nantucket MA – Lynn MA) suffragist, professor, astronomer, first American woman to work as professional astronomer, discovered Miss Mitchell’s Comet [initially named C/1847 Ti, credited to an Italian man].

Ida Celanire Craddock (01 Aug 1857 – 16 Oct 1902 | Philadelphia PA – New York NY) occultist, Unitarian, free speech advocate, women’s rights activist, pastor / priestess of Church of Yoga, first female undergraduate at University of Pennsylvania, institutionalized for her radical books / beliefs / eroticism, ended life by suicide rather than be re-imprisoned.

Angela Diller (01 Aug 1877 – 01 May 1968 | Brooklyn NY – Stamford CT) pianist, author, teacher, Diller-Quaile School of Music co-founder.

31 Jul | Women.Words.Work

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Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley (31 Jul 1793 – 26 Jul 1827 | Boston MA – Concord MA) scholar, educator, Unitarian, intellectual, letter correspondent.

Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge (31 Jul 1811 – 26 Aug 1890 | Philadelphia PA – Chicago IL) author, fundraiser, welfare worker, Civil War administrator of Chicago Sanitary Commission, co-founded Chicago Home for the Friendless.

Lydia Moss Bradley (31 Jul 1816 – 16 Jan 1908 | Vevay IN – Peoria IL) social activist, college founder, philanthropist, independent financial manager, founded Bradley Polytechnic Institute.

Sarah J.S. Tompkins Garnet (31 Jul 1831 – 17 Sep 1911 | Brooklyn NY – Brooklyn NY) author, educator, suffragist, seamstress, school principal, educational activist, first African-American woman to found Equal Suffrage League organization, first black woman principal in the New York City public school system.

Amelia Stone Quinton (31 Jul 1833 – 23 Jun 1926 | Jamesville NY – Ridgefield Park NJ) Native American rights activist / advocate / organizer, co-founded Women’s National Indian Association.

30 Jul | Women.Words.Work

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Emma Millinda Gillett (30 Jul 1852 – 23 Jan 1927 | Princeton WI – Washington DC) lawyer, clubwoman, National Woman’s Party member, women’s law education activist / advocate, first female Notary Public appointed by US President.

Julia Henrietta Gulliver (30 Jul 1856 – 25 Jul 1940 Norwich CT – Eustis FL) author, educator, philosopher, Rockford College president, second US woman awarded PhD.

Lucy Angeline Bacon (30 Jul 1857 – 17 Oct 1932 | Pitcairn NY – San Francisco CA) artist, art teacher, American Impressionist.

Elizabeth Ross Haynes (30 Jul 1883 – 26 Oct 1953 | Mount Willing AL – New York NY) author, YWCA advocate, civil rights activist, social reformer / researcher.

Bertha Fanning Taylor (30 Jul 1883 – 03 Jul 1980 | New York NY – Norfolk VA) curator, painter, author, educator, art critic, illustrator, art historian.

29 Jul | Women.Words.Work

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Isabella Marshall Graham (29 Jul 1742 – 27 Jul 1814 | Lanarkshire SCT – New York NY) Scottish-American educator, philanthropist, founded Society for Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children / one of first women’s societies to engage in active public benevolence and successfully petition for shares of public welfare funds.

Julia Gardiner Tyler (29 Jul 1820 – 10 Jul 1889 | East Hampton NY – Richmond VA) aka Lady Presidentress, Confederate plantation owner / overseer, first US Presidential First Lady to be photographed.

Caroline Frances Putnam (29 Jul 1826 – 14 Jan 1917 | Warren MA – Lottsburg VA) educator, abolitionist, Unitarian, civil rights activist, lifelong companion of Sallie Holley, co-founded Holley School for freed slaves.

Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (29 Jul 1861 – 14 Feb 1884 | Chestnut Hill MA – New York NY) political family figure, President Theodore Roosevelt’s first wife.

Theresa Mary Gowanlock Johnson (29 Jul 1863 – 12 Sep 1899 | Tintern ON – Lincoln ON) author, pioneer, Upper Canadian, Indian captive / survivor.

28 Jul | Women.Words.Work

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Louise Amelia Knapp Clappe Smith (28 Jul 1819 – 09 Feb 1906 | Elizabeth NJ – Morristown NJ) author, memoirist, schoolteacher, letter correspondent, pen name: Dame Shirley.

Mary Osburn Adkinson (28 July 1843 – 29 June 1918 | Rush County OH – New Orleans LA) pastor’s wife, temperance reformer, sewing / dressmaking university instructor.

Louisine Waldron Elder Havemeyer (28 Jul 1855 – 06 Jan 1929 | New York NY – New York NY) feminist, suffragist, memoirist, art collector, artist’s model, philanthropist, patron of American Impressionist Mary Cassatt.

Alice Duer Miller (28 Jul 1874 – 22 Aug 1942 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, novelist, suffragist, screenwriter, women’s activist, active political observer.

Rachael Robinson Elmer (28 Jul 1878 – 13 Feb 1919 | Rokeby [now Ferrisburgh] VT – New York NY) artist, illustrator, art postcard painter, WWI poster artist, WWI Bird and Tree Club fundraiser, aka ‘The Woman who Changed the World of American Postcards.’

27 Jul | Women.Words.Work

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Matilda Ann [Linda] Judson Richards (27 Jul 1841 – 16 Apr 1930 | West Potsdam NY – Boston MA) nurse, author, memoirist, nursing educator, first professional trained US nurse, established nursing schools in US and Japan, created first system for keeping individual medical records for hospitalized patients.

Helen Gerrells Stoddard (27 Jul 1850 – 31 Dec 1940 | Sheboygan WI – Dallas TX) educator, politician, community activist, Texas Women’s University co-founder, Women’s Christian Temperance Union leader, first woman to run for Congress in California.

Elizabeth Ann Plankinton (27 Jul 1853 – 1923 | Milwaukee WI – Lucerne CHE) humanitarian, philanthropist, artists / artisans patron, funded illustrated volume of Plankinton Memorial Book, funded first YWCA building in Milwaukee, aka Miss Lizzie and the Municipal Patroness.

Lucy Maynard Salmon (27 Jul 1853 – 14 Feb 1927 | Fulton NY – Poughkeepsie NY) author, historian, professor of history, new social history advocate.

Augusta Stowe Gullen (27 Jul 1857 – 25 Sep 1943 | Mount Pleasant ON – Toronto ON) physician, social reformer, women’s rights activist, first woman to gain a medical degree in Canada, Women’s College Hospital co-founder.

26 Jul | Women.Words.Work

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Lucy Newhall Danforth Colman (26 Jul 1817 – 18 Jan 1906 | Sturbridge MA – Syracuse NY) author, teacher, columnist, abolitionist, Free Thought writer, women’s rights activist.

Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer (26 Jul 1822 – 04 Jan 1904 | London UK – Baltimore MD) writer, historian, translator.

Maria Fearing (26 Jul 1838 – 1937 | Gainesville AL – Sumter AL) educator, missionary, children’s advocate, freed African-American slave.

Abigail May Alcott Nieriker (26 Jul 1840 – 29 Dec 1879 | Concord MA – Paris FR) artist, art teacher, literary family figure, sister of Louisa May Alcott, aka Abba and Abby.

Tatzumbie DuPea (26 Jul 1849 – 26 Feb 1970 | Lone Pine CA – Los Angeles CA) aka Beautiful Star, Paiute writer / actress / activist / spokesperson, died at age 121.