14 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Charlotte Fowler Wells (14 Aug 1814 – 04 Jun 1901 | Cohocton NY – West Orange NJ) author, phrenologist, journal publisher.

May Dickson Exall (14 Aug 1859 – 28 Sep 1936 | McKinney TX – Dallas TX) civic leader, clubwoman, arts activist, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts co-founder.

Florence Pullman Lowden (14 Aug 1868 – 05 Jul 1937 | Chicago IL – Chicago IL) travel writer, philanthropist, First Lady of Illinois.

Vivian Louise Aunspaugh (14 Aug 1869 – 09 Mar 1960 | Bedford VA – Dallas TX) painter, art editor, art teacher, art school founder.

Leila Edna Andrews (14 Aug 1876 – 28 Apr 1954 | North Manchester IN – Oklahoma City OK) author, pediatrician, pediatrics professor, hematologist, one of first two female members of American College of Physicians [ACP].

13 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lucy Blackwell Stone (13 Aug 1818 – 19 Oct 1893 | West Brookfield MA – Boston MA) writer, orator, suffragist, publisher, abolitionist, magazine founder / editor, women’s rights activist / organizer.

Martha Joanna Reade Nash Lamb (13 Aug 1829 – 02 Jan 1893 | Plainfield MA – New York NY) editor, author, historian, child welfare activist, Secretary of US Sanitary Commission, owner / editor-in-chief Magazine of American History.

Leonora Kearney Barry (13 Aug 1849 – 18 Jul 1923 | County Cork IE – Minooka IL) women’s labor rights activist / organizer, sole female Knights of Labor national office holder, aka Mother Lake and America’s First Woman Labor Activist.

Mary Ellen [Ella] Quinlan O’Neill (13 Aug 1857 – 28 Feb 1922 | New Haven CT – Los Angeles CA) pianist, literary figure / inspiration, mother of playwright Eugene O’Neill.

Annie Oakley (13 Aug 1860 – 03 Nov 1926 | near Woodland OH – Greenville OH) folk figure, philanthropist, aka Little Sure Shot, exhibition sharpshooter, born Phoebe Ann Moses, autobiographical writer.

12 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Elkins Sanders (12 Aug 1762 – 19 Feb 1851 | Salem MA – Salem MA) essayist, book reviewer, Unitarian, pamphleteer, Native American rights advocate [image note: anonymous 18th c. Massachusetts woman].

Elizabeth Oakes Smith (12 Aug 1806 – 16 Nov 1893 | North Yarmouth ME – Blue Point NY) poet, editor, lecturer, fiction writer, suffragist, women’s rights activist.

Lillie Devereux Blake (12 Aug 1833 – 30 Dec 1913 | Raleigh NC – Englewood NJ) author, suffragist, social reformer, aka Tiger Lily.

Katharine Lee Bates (12 Aug 1859 – 28 Mar 1929 | Falmouth MA – Wellesley MA) poet, author, educator, songwriter, composed ‘America the Beautiful’.

Edith Matilda Thomas (12 Aug 1854 – 13 Sep 1925 | Chatham Center OH – New York NY) poet, editor, author, teacher, typesetter.

11 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Eliza Hart Spalding (11 Aug 1807 – 13 Jan 1851 | Kensington CT – Brownsville OR) diarist, pioneer, missionary to Nez Perce, mother of Eliza Spalding Warren.

Octavia Walton Le Vert (11 Aug 1811 – 12 Mar 1877 | Augusta GA – Augusta GA) author, socialite, social activist, memoirist, travel writer.

Oriana [Orie] Russell Moon Andrews (11 Aug 1834 – 26 Dec 1883 | Viewmont VA – Scottsville VA) aka Dr. Orie Moon, Civil War Confederate doctor, Bedouin missionary physician.

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (11 Aug 1836 – 22 Dec 1919 | Lexington KY – Caldwell NJ) poet.

Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond (11 Aug 1862 – 28 Dec 1946 | Janesville WI – Hollywood CA) poet, pianist, singer-songwriter, first US female music publisher, autobiographical author, first woman to sell one million copies of a song.

10 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Sargeant Neal Gove Nichols (10 Aug 1810 – 30 May 1884 | Goffstown NH – London UK) writer, lecturer, educator, suffragist, visionary, vegetarian, health reformer, autobiographer, hydrotherapy advocate, women’s rights activist.

Eliza Frances Andrews (10 Aug 1840 – 21 Jan 1931 | Washington GA – Rome GA) diarist, botanist, essayist, educator, memoirist, textbook author, magazine writer.

Mary Artemesia Lathbury (10 Aug 1841 – 20 Oct 1913 | Manchester NY – East Orange NJ) hymnist, children’s book author, religious periodical writer.

Gertrude Bloede (10 Aug 1845 – 14 Aug 1945 | Dresden DEU – Baldwin NY) German-born American poet, pen name: Stuart Sterne.

Mary [C. C.] Carroll Craig Bradford (10 Aug 1856 – 15 Jan 1938 | Brooklyn NY – Denver CO) politician, suffragist, Colorado State Superintendent of Public Instruction, first female delegate to 1908 Democratic National Convention, president: National Education Association, Colorado Federation of Women’s Clubs, and Colorado Springs Equal Suffrage Association.

09 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (09 Aug 1757 – 09 Nov 1854 | Albany NY – Washington DC) archivist, social activist, orphanage founder / supporter.

Mary Randolph (09 Aug 1762 – 23 Jan 1828 | Manakin VA – Washington DC) cookbook / housekeeping author, women’s domestic freedom advocate.

Dorothea Klumpke Roberts (09 Aug 1861 – 05 Oct 1942 | San Francisco CA – San Francisco CA) author, astronomer, Director of Bureau of Measurements at Paris Observatory, endowed Klumpke-Roberts Award for service to astronomy / astronomy education.

Janie Porter Barrett (09 Aug 1865 – 27 Aug 1948 | Athens GA – Hampton VA) educator, social reformer, welfare worker, founded Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, Virginia State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs founder / leader.

Lula May Hefner (09 Aug 1874 – 19 Jul 1954 | Nowata OK – Oklahoma City OK) milliner, Cherokee, businesswoman, first female oil driller in Oklahoma, first female to drill oil on her own property in Oklahoma, owned largest car garage in Oklahoma.

08 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Esther Hobart Morris (08 Aug 1814 – 03 Apr 1902 | Tioga NY – Cheyenne WY) milliner, aka Mrs. Slack, women’s rights activist, first female US Judge / Justice of the Peace in Wyoming.

Julia Ann Wilbur (08 Aug 1815 – 06 Jun 1895 | Milan NY – Washington DC) nurse, Quaker, suffragist, abolitionist, Civil War diarist, member / secretary Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society.

Mary Blair Moody (08 Aug 1837 – 18 Aug 1919 | Castle Creek NY – New Haven CT) author, physician, women’s rights activist, one of first female physicians in New Haven CT.

Cora Bussey Hillis (08 Aug 1858 – 12 Aug 1924 | Bloomfield IA – St Cloud MN) educator, clubwoman, child welfare advocate.

Ruth VanSickle Ford (08 Aug 1897 – 18 Apr 1989 | Aurora IL – Aurora IL) artist, art instructor, social realist painter, co-founded Chicago Women’s Salon, owned Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, first IL female member of American Watercolor Society [1954], first female member of Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art [1960].

07 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis (07 Aug 1813 – 24 Aug 1876 | Bloomfield NY – Providence RI) educator, suffragist, publisher, abolitionist, founding member of New England Woman Suffrage Association.

Alice James (07 Aug 1848 – 06 Mar 1892 | New York NY – London UK) editor, diarist, history teacher, literary figure, letter correspondent.

Ellen Fitz Pendleton (07 Aug 1864 – 26 Jul 1936 | Westerly RI – Newton MA) mathematics professor, long-term president of Wellesley College, academic freedom advocate, first woman on panel to award American Peace Prize.

Florence Margaret Martus (07 Aug 1868 – 08 Feb 1943 | Chatham GA – Savannah GA) folk figure, lighthouse keeper, aka Savannah’s Waving Girl.

Amelia [Amy] Elizabeth du Pont (07 Aug 1875 – 16 Feb 1962 | Wilmington DE – Montecito CA) heiress, aka Miss Amy, philanthropist, founded Unidel Foundation, funded University of Delaware.

06 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Zerelda G. Wallace (06 Aug 1817 – 19 Mar 1901 | Bourbon KY – Jennings IN) author, suffragist, temperance leader, First Lady of Indiana.

Myrtle Fillmore (06 Aug 1845 – 06 Oct 1931 | Pagetown OH – Lees Summit MO) author, memoirist, school teacher, New Thought practitioner, Unity Church co-founder, née Mary Caroline Page, aka Mother of Unity.

Susie Baker King Taylor (06 Aug 1848 – 06 Oct 1912 | Liberty GA – Boston MA) memoirist, social activist, Civil War nurse, aka The Black Clara Barton.

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (06 Aug 1861 – 30 Sep 1948 | Norwich CT – Oyster Bay NY) US First Lady, social activist, knitter and needlework artist.

Elizabeth Robins (06 Aug 1862 – 08 May 1952 | Louisville KY – Brighton UK) actress, novelist, playwright, suffragist, pen name: C. E. Raimond.

05 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Edith Dean Painter (05 Aug 1821 – 20 Jul 1899 | New Garden OH – Pasadena CA) Quaker, farmer, abolitionist, Underground Railroad conductor.

Clara Dorothy Bewick Colby (05 Aug 1846 – 07 Sep 1916 | Cheltenham UK – Palo Alto CA) writer, editor, teacher, suffragist, public speaker, equal rights activist, public library founder, newspaper founder / publisher.

Mary Ellen Richmond (05 Aug 1861 – 12 Sept 1928 | Belleville IL – New York NY) social work pioneer, Unitarian, first Social Caseworker, aka Mother of Professional Social Work, [with Jane Addams] founded professional social case work.

Mary Ritter Beard (05 Aug 1876 – 14 Aug 1958 | Indianapolis IN – Phoenix AZ) author, archivist, historian, memoirist, suffragist, woman’s historian, women’s rights activist.

Ruth Wheeler (05 Aug 1877 – 29 Sep 1948 | Plains PA – Poughkeepsie NY) author, chemist, nutritionist, professor, developed first college curriculum for study of dietetics and nutrition.