04 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Hanchett Hunt (04 Jun 1830 – 24 Apr 1906 | South Canaan CT – Dorchester MA) Women’s Christian Temperance Union [WCTU] leader / author / lecturer.

Delity Powell Kelly (04 Jun 1851 – 31 Oct 1939 | Apalachicola FL – Pensacola FL) Confederate nurse, Civil War prisoner, first female military pensioner Florida State.

Catharine Waugh McCulloch (04 Jun 1862 – 20 Apr 1945 | Ransomville NY – Evanston IL) author, lawyer, suffragist, first woman elected to US judicial office.

Nora Waln (04 Jun 1895 – 27 Sep 1964 | Grampian Hills PA – Malaga ES) author, novelist, memoirist, magazine writer, war correspondent.

Julia Caroline Butler Hansen (04 Jun 1907 – 03 May 1988 | Portland OR – Cathlamet WA) State representative, children’s book author, second woman / first Democratic woman elected to Congress from Washington State.

03 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Martha Jane Knowlton Coray (03 jun 1821 – 14 dec 1881 | Covington KY – Provo UT) educator, historian, preservationist, sole female on first Board of Trustees for Brigham Young Academy.

Charcila Cecilia Moore Morse (03 Jun 1838 – 13 Jun 1926 | Anahuac TX – Tampa FL) citrus farmer, pioneer educator, founded St. Anthony Catholic School [now the oldest parochial school in Florida].

Hannah Kent Schoff (03 Jun 1853 – 10 Dec 1940 | Upper Darby PA – Philadelphia PA) author, child welfare activist / worker.

Elinore Pruitt Rupert Stewart (03 Jun 1876 – 08 Oct 1933 | Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory – Rock Springs WY) author, homesteader, letter correspondent, aka the Woman Homesteader.

Edna Noble White (03 Jun 1879 – 04 May 1954 | Fairmount IL – Detroit MI) home economics educator, child development researcher, Merrill Palmer Institute first director.

02 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Helen Herron [Nellie] Taft (02 Jun 1861 – 22 May 1943 | Cincinnati OH – Washington DC) memoirist, US Presidential First Lady, patroness of music, planted / arranged first plantings of Japanese cherry trees gifted to Washington DC.

Marjorie Hill Allee (02 Jun 1890 – 30 Apr 1945 | Carthage IN – Indiana US) fiction / nonfiction writer, young adult novelist, children’s book author.

Dorothy West (02 Jun 1907 – 16 Aug 1998 | Boston MA – Boston MA) novelist, short story writer, African-American, member of Harlem Renaissance.

Alice Jackson Stuart (02 Jun 1913 – 13 Jun 2001 | Richmond VA – Richmond VA) teacher, professor, educational advocate, first female African-American to apply [and be denied] for graduate school at University of Virginia, earned Master of Arts at Columbia University.

Betty Wishnick-Freeman (02 Jun 1921 – 03 Jan 2009 | Chicago IL – Los Angeles CA) art collector, photographer, philanthropist, biographical author, documentary filmmaker.

01 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Abby Hadassah Smith (01 Jun 1797 – 23 Jul 1879 | Glastonbury CT – Glastonbury CT) suffragist, tax resister, women’s property activist.

Caroline Lee Hentz (01 Jun 1800 – 11 Feb 1856 | Lancaster MA – Marianna FL) author, novelist, playwright, literary figure, anti-abolitionist, short story writer.

Harriet Ruggles Gold Boudinot (01 Jun 1805 – 15 Aug 1836 | Cornwall CT – New Echota GA) folk figure, letter correspondent, Cherokee marriage partner / pioneer.

Emily Donelson (01 Jun 1807 – 19 Dec 1836 | Donelson TN – Nashville TN) shortest-lived US First Lady, White House Hostess.

Anna Eliot Ticknor (01 Jun 1823 – 05 Oct 1896 | Boston MA – Boston MA) author, educator, public library advocate, home education activist, founded Society to Encourage Studies at Home / first correspondence school in the US.

31 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jessie Ann Benton Frémont (31 May 1824 – 27 Dec 1902 | Rockbridge VA – Los Angeles CA) author, memoirist, abolitionist, political activist, short story writer.

Kate Kennedy (31 May 1827 – 18 Mar 1890 | Gaskinstown IE – Oakland CA) essayist, educator, educational reformer, teacher tenure activist / advocate.

Emily Perkins Bissell (31 May 1861 – 08 Mar 1948 | Wilmington DE – Wilmington DE) essayist, health activist, social reformer, Christmas Seals founder.

Cynthia Westover Alden (31 May 1862 – 08 Jan 1931 | Afton IA – Brooklyn NY) poet, author, editor, teacher, journalist, civil servant, philanthropist, pen name: Kate Kensington, invented NYC street-cleaners’ cart, founder / president-general of the International Sunshine Society to house / educate blind babies / children / elderly.

Kathlyn Williams Eyton (31 May 1888 – 23 Sep 1960 | Butte MT – Hollywood CA) actress, screenwriter, social philanthropist. 

30 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Zilpah Polly Grant Banister (30 May 1794 – 03 Dec 1874 | Norfolk CT – Newburyport MA) educator, pamphleteer, women’s seminary founder.

Persis Foster Eames Albee (30 May 1836 – 07 Dec 1914 | Newry ME – Templeton MA) aka PFE Albee and The First Avon Lady, women’s business trainer / advocate, professional saleswoman for California Perfume Company [later Avon Products].

Katrina Trask (30 May 1853 – 08 Jan 1922 | Brooklyn NY – Saratoga Springs NY) poet, memoirist, playwright, philanthropist, co-founder of Yaddo artists’ retreat, aka Kate Nicholes Trask.

Florence Casler (30 May 1869 – 15 Mar 1954 | Welland ON – Yolo CA) plumber, groundbreaking female architect / contractor / real estate developer of downtown Los Angeles, first female / then sole female director Peoples Bank of Los Angeles.

Josephine Preston Peabody (30 May 1874 – 04 Dec 1922 | New York NY – Cambridge MA) poet, dramatist.

29 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (29 May 1845 – 05 Dec 1921 | Pawley’s Island SC – Charleston SC) author, diarist, publisher, rice farmer, slave holder, aka Patience Pennington.

Susan Elizabeth Frazier (29 May 1864 – 03 Feb 1924 | New York NY – New York NY) activist, African-American, public school educator, women’s issues / civil rights thought leader, president WWI Women’s Auxiliary of Old Fifteenth National Guard black troop.

Elizabeth Cutter Morrow (29 May 1873 – 24 Jan 1955 | Cleveland OH – Englewood NJ) poet, children’s book writer, first female Head of Smith College, grandmother of kidnapped baby Charles Lindbergh Jr.

Leila Mechlin (29 May 1874 – 04 May 1949 | Washington DC – Washington DC) author, art critic, manager, editor of The American Magazine of Art.

Helen Woodard Atwater (29 May 1876 – 26 Jun 1947 | Somerville MA – Washington DC) editor, author, home economics specialist, full-time editor of the Journal of Home Economics, aka The First Lady of American Nutrition.

28 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Butler Wister (28 May 1835 – 09 Jun 1908 | Butler PA – Philadelphia PA) author, editor, diarist.

Annie Sherwood Hawks (28 May 1836 – 03 Jan 1918 | Hoosick NY – Bennington VT) poet, hymnist.

Abby Leach (28 May 1855 – 29 Dec 1918 | Brockton MA – Poughkeepsie NY) author, educational pioneer, Greek and Roman Classicist.

Lizzie Black Kander (28 May 1858 – 24 Jul 1940 | Milwaukee WI – Milwaukee WI) educator, relief / settlement worker, cookbook writer, founded Milwaukee Settlement House, Jewish women’s activist / advocate, originated The Settlement House Cookbook.

Katharine Blunt (28 May 1876 – 29 Jul 1954 | Philadelphia PA – New London CT) author, educator, nutritionist, home economist, third president of Connecticut College.

27 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Julia Evelina Smith (27 May 1792 – 06 Mar 1886 | Glastonbury CT – Hartford CT) author, suffragist, women’s tax / property activist, first female English Bible translator.

Amelia Jenks Bloomer (27 May 1818 – 30 Dec 1894 | Homer NY – Council Bluffs IA) writer, editor, speaker, publisher, suffragist, women’s dress reformer, temperance advocate, women’s tax rights activist.

Julia Ward Howe (27 May 1819 – 17 Oct 1910 | New York NY – Portsmouth RI) poet, hymnist, suffragist, abolitionist, social activist.

May Wright Sewall (27 May 1844 – 22 Jul 1920 | Greenfield WI – Indianapolis IN) educator, lecturer, letterist, reformer, suffragist, civic / social activist, philanthropist.

Alzina Parsons Stevens (27 May 1849 – 03 Jun 1900 | Parsonsfield ME – Chicago IL) journalist, labor leader, settlement worker.

26 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ann Hall (26 May 1792 – 11 Dec 1863 | Pomfret CT – New York NY) miniature portrait painter.

Mary Andrews Denison (26 May 1826 – 15 Oct 1911 | Cambridge MA – Cambridge MA) editor, novelist, playwright, aka Clara Vance, Civil War nurse, short story writer.

Clara Louise Root Burnham (26 May 1854 – 20 Jun 1927 | Newton MA – Bailey Island ME) author, hymnist.

Edna Brady Cornwell (26 May 1868 – 01 Dec 1958 | Romney WV – Romney WV) newspaper publisher, West Virginia State First Lady.

Peggy Hopkins Joyce (26 May 1893 – 12 Jun 1957 | Berkley VA – New York NY) dancer, actress, folk figure, artist model, autobiographical author.