14 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (14 Jun 1811 – 01 Jul 1896 | Litchfield CT – Hartford CT) poet, author, abolitionist, social reformer.

Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper Tyler (14 Jun 1816 – 29 Dec 1889 | New York NY – Montgomery AL) political family member, White House hostess / de facto First Lady for father-in-law US President John Tyler.

Cornelia Peake McDonald (14 Jun 1822 – 11 Jan 1909 | Alexandria VA – Louisville KY) author, Confederate Civil War diarist, aka One of the Devil Diarists of Winchester.

Sigourney Trask (14 Jun 1849 – 20 Mar 1936 | Spring Creek PA – Barcroft VA) physician, Methodist Episcopal Church missionary, first female missionary doctor at Foochow, China.

Ruth Imogen Stout (14 Jun 1884 – 22 Aug 1980 | Topeka KS – Redding CT) memoirist, nonfiction author, no-work gardening expert / innovator.

13 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Julia Brace (13 Jun 1807 – 12 Aug 1884 | Newington CT – Bloomfield CT) nurse, deaf-blind from childhood typhus fever, developed unique system of signing, studied and worked at American School for the Deaf.

Mary Lydia Bolles Branch (13 Jun 1840 – 17 Apr 1922 | New London CT – New London CT) children’s author / short story writer.

Sallie Swepson Sims Southall Cotten (13 Jun 1846 – 04 May 1929 | Lawrenceville VA – Winchester MA) poet, author, speaker, educator, historian, civic activist, North Carolina Woman’s Club leader.

Christine Terhune Herrick (13 Jun 1859 – 02 Dec 1944 | Newark NJ – Washington DC) cook, journalist, magazine writer, prolific cookbook author.

Alice Stebbins Wells (13 Jun 1873 – 17 Aug 1957 | Manhattan KS – Los Angeles CA) Pentecostal minister, first US female police officer, LAPD historian, international policewoman’s organization founder / president.

12 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lilian Jeannette Rice (12 Jun 1889 – 22 Dec 1938 | National City CA – Rancho Santa Fe CA) pioneering female eco-conscious architect.

Lela Campbell Murray (12 Jun 1890 – 18 Mar 1949 | Kentucky US – San Bernardino CA) social / civil rights activist, pioneering African-American dude ranch co-owner / manager.

Djuna Barnes (12 Jun 1892 – 18 Jun 1982 | Cornwall-on-Hudson NY – New York NY) poet, writer, journalist, illustrator, memoirist, playwright, sketch artist.

Viola Blanche Evans Dean (12 Jun 1892 – 31 May 1974 | Clay County AL – Goodwater AL) teacher, author, naturalist, illustrator, conservationist.

Anni Albers (12 Jun 1899 – 09 May 1994 | Berlin DEU – Orange CT) author, weaver, Bauhaus graduate, printmaker, mixed media artist, German-American textile artist, born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann, founded Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

11 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anne Newport Royall (11 Jun 1769 – 01 Oct 1854 | Baltimore MD – Washington DC) writer, publisher, reformer, journalist, possibly first professional female journalist in America.

Caroline Le Gresley LeSueur (11 Jun 1814 – 01 Oct 1898 | Jersey, Channel Islands – St Johns AZ) Mormon, farmer, pioneer, settler, co-founder of St. Johns, Arizona.

Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens (11 Jun 1832 – 08 Aug 1899 | La Grange TN – Edgefield SC) author, socialite, flag seamstress, Confederate icon, aka Queen of the Confederacy.

Mary Leslie (11 Jun 1842 – 01 Mar 1920 | UK – Toronto ON) artist, art teacher, columnist for McLure Syndicate, conducted Leslie’s College for Women, pen names: J.T.J., James Thomas Jones.

Olivia America Davidson Washington (11 Jun 1854 – 09 May 1889 | Mercer WV – Boston MA) teacher, Tuskegee Institute co-founder.

10 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Pauline Cushman Fryer (10 jun 1833 – 02 dec 1897 | New Orleans LA – San Francisco CA) actress, Civil War Union spy, born Harriet Wood.

Rebecca Latimer Felton (10 Jun 1835 – 24 Jan 1930 | Decatur GA – Atlanta GA) writer, lecturer, political activist, first female US Senator.

Caroline Hazard (10 Jun 1856 – 19 Mar 1945 | Peace Dale RI – Santa Barbara CA) author, educator, museum patron, philanthropist, fifth president of Wellesley College.

Violet Oakley (10 Jun 1874 – 25 Feb 1961 | Bergen Heights NJ – Philadelphia PA) painter, muralist, printmaker, stained glass artist, Christian Scientist, first American woman to receive a public mural commission.

Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg (10 Jun 1881 – 11 Mar 1974 | Vienna AT – New York NY) author, parent / child expert.

09 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Theodora Cormontan (09 Jun 1840 – 26 Oct 1922 | Beitstad NO – Decorah IA) pianist, organist, hymnist, composer, teacher, music publisher, music-lending librarian.

Helen Marot (09 Jun 1865 – 03 Jun 1940 | Philadelphia PA – New York NY) writer, editor, librarian, social reformer, labor organizer.

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (09 Jun 1877 – 18 Mar 1968 | Philadelphia PA – Framingham MA) poet, painter, sculptor, African-American, member of Black Renaissance.

Marcia Davenport (09 Jun 1903 – 16 Jan 1996 | New York NY – Monterey CA) author, music critic, memoirist, biographer.

Sarah Ratner (09 Jun 1903 – 28 Jul 1999 | New York NY – New York NY) author, essayist, biochemist, researcher.

08 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Lucinda Bonney Rambaut (08 Jun 1816 – 24 Jul 1900 | Hamilton NY – Hamilton NY) educator, women’s school founder, Native American rights advocate.

Sarah Ellen Harding Baker (08 Jun 1847 – 30 Mar 1886 | Cincinnati OH – Johnson County IA) teacher, astronomer, creative quilter, known for her Solar System Quilt.

Ida Saxton McKinley (08 Jun 1847 – 26 May 1907 | Canton OH – Canton OH) bank teller, ‘secret’ epileptic, US Presidential First Lady.

Marion [Mamie] Graves Anthon Fish (08 Jun 1853 – 25 May 1915 | Staten Island NY – Glenclyffe NY) socialite, high society leader, self-styled fun-maker.

Adah Louise Sutton Saalfield (08 Jun 1860 – 18 Nov 1935 | Brooklyn NY – Akron OH) poet, author, children’s writer, women’s rights activist, animal welfare advocate, pen names: Ada Sutton, Adah Louise Sutton, Louise A. Field.

07 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Susan Elizabeth Blow (07 Jun 1843 – 27 Mar 1916 | St Louis MO – New York NY) author, educator, kindergarten founder, children’s education activist, aka The Mother of American Kindergarten.

Alice Luann Moore Hubbard (07 Jun 1861 – 07 May 1915 | Wales NY – off the coast of Ireland) writer, feminist, original Roycrofter, lost at sea onboard torpedoed ocean liner Lusitania.

Alice Van Vechten Brown (07 Jun 1862 – 16 Oct 1949 | Hanover NH – Middletown NJ) author, art educator, art historian, created first US courses in museum training [1911] and modern art [1927] .

Alice Nielsen (07 Jun 1872 – 08 Mar 1943 | Nashville TN – Far Rockaway NY) operatic lyric soprano.

Carmela Anna Ponselle (07 Jun 1887 – 13 Jun 1977 | Schenectady NY – New York NY) operatic mezzo-soprano.

06 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Parker Remond (06 Jun 1826 – 13 Dec 1894 | Salem MA – Florence IT) author, lecturer, physician, abolitionist, African-American.

Annie Adams Fields (06 Jun 1834 – 05 Jan 1915 | Boston MA – Cambridge MA) author, diarist, memoirist, biographer, social reformer, philanthropist.

Elida Barker Rumsey Fowle (06 Jun 1842 – 17 Jun 1919 | New York NY – Dorchester MA) field nurse, songstress, library founder, social activist.

Beulah Poynter Leffler (06 Jun 1883 – 13 Aug 1960 | Eagleville MO – Manhasset NY) actor, author, playwright, short fiction writer, mystery / romance novelist.

A’Lelia Walker (06 Jun 1885 – 17 Aug 1931 | Vicksburg MS – Long Branch NJ) businesswoman, cultural salon hostess, Harlem Renaissance patron of arts.

05 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Kate Cumming (05 Jun 1828 – 05 Jun 1909 | Scotland UK – Birmingham AL) diarist, memoirist, Confederate nurse.

Miriam Florence Folline Squier Leslie (05 Jun 1836 – 18 Sep 1914 | New Orleans LA – New York NY) author, memoirist, publisher.

Sarah Elizabeth Forbush Downs (05 Jun 1843 – 1926 | Wrentham MA – Cambridge MA) dime novelist, magazine writer, aka Mrs Georgie Sheldon, Mrs George Sheldon Downs.

Susan Stuart Frackelton (05 Jun 1848 – 14 Apr 1932 | Milwaukee WI – Kenilworth IL) artist, author, ceramics painter, Arts and Crafts movement leader.

Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman (05 Jun 1853 – 19 Mar 1915 | Cedarville IL – Chicago IL) banker, educator, social activist, craftswoman, philanthropist, Woman’s Club leader, physician’s assistant, sister of social activist Jane Addams, mother of Marcet Haldeman-Julius.