29 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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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 | Herstorical.Reflections

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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 | Herstorical.Reflections

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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 | Herstorical.Reflections

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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.

25 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Maria Weston Chapman (25 Jul 1806 – 12 Jul 1885 | Weymouth MA – Weymouth MA) editor, hymnist, abolitionist, letter correspondent.

Flora Adams Darling (25 Jul 1840 – 06 Jan 1910 | Lancaster NH – New York NY) author, memoirist, founding president US Daughters of 1812, born Sophronia A. Adams.

Ella R. Starbuck Montague (25 Jul 1859 – 07 Jan 1910 | Winston NC – Winston NC) boarding house owner, Moravian church / settlement family member.

Estelle May Hurll (25 Jul 1863 – 08 May 1924 | New Bedford MA – Wellesley MA) author, art historian, expert in aesthetics, assistant professor at Wellesley College, then full professor / head of Philosophy Department at Mount Holyoke College.

Kathryn Leone Wood (25 Jul 1869 – 12 Mar 1936 | Kalamazoo MI – Los Altos CA) writer, artist, miniaturist, portrait painter. [Note: portrait is one painted by KLW, not necessarily one of herself.]

24 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Frances [Fanny] Flora Bond Palmer (24 Jul 1812 – 20 Aug 1876 | Leicester UK – Brooklyn NY) artist, teacher, entrepreneur, lithographer, lithographic innovator, Currier & Ives printmaker [though often not credited or recognized as original artist and designer].

Mary Margaret Bartelme (24 Jul 1866 – 25 Jul 1954 | Chicago IL – Carmel CA) judge, author, attorney, girls and women’s rights activist / advocate / educator.

Alice Jane [Jean] Chandler Webster (24 Jul 1876 – 11 Jun 1916 | Fredonia NY – New York NY) novelist, femininst, journalist, playwright, suffragist, social reformer, political activist, short fiction writer, girls’ school teacher, Settlement House worker, portrayed strong female protagonists.

Eleanor Manning O’Connor (24 Jul 1884 – 12 Jul 1973 | Lynn MA – Mexico City MX) architect, educator, watercolorist, public housing activist, Special Instructor of Architecture and Housing.

Agnes May Meyer Driscoll (24 Jul 1889 – 16 Sep 1971 | Genesco IL – Fairfax VA) aka Miss Aggie or Madame X, high school math teacher, military academy music director, WW I / WW II US Navy cryptanalyst, member Armed Forces Security Agency.

23 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Charlotte Saunders Cushman (23 Jul 1816 – 18 Feb 1876 | Boston MA – Boston MA) stage actress, operatic contralto singer, played male and female parts, namesake for Charlotte Cushman Club (1907), became Charlotte Cushman Foundation (2000).

Mary Prudence Wells Smith (23 Jul 1840 – 17 Dec 1930 | Attica NY – Greenfield MA) feminist, children’s author, local historian, women’s rights activist, women’s history advocate.

Harriet Williams Russell Strong (23 Jul 1844 – 06 Sep 1926 | Buffalo NY – Whittier CA) suffragist, agriculturist, conservationist, philanthropist, women’s rights activist, dam and reservoir series inventor / innovator.

Sophia Cook Amos Zimmerman (23 Jul 1856 – 23 Nov 1930 | Syracuse NY – Syracuse NY) missionary, philanthropist, religious / educational patron, president of Woman’s Missionary Society of First English Lutheran Church.

Barbara Deming (23 Jul 1917 – 02 Aug 1984 | New York NY – Sugarloaf Key FL) poet, author, feminist, advocate of non-violent social change.

22 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Newton Woolsey Howland (22 Jul 1835 – 03 Jul 1917 | New York NY – Newport RI) author, memoirist, Civil War Union nurse, Howland Circulating Library co-founder.

Maria Beulah Woodworth-Etter (22 Jul 1844 – 16 Sep 1924 | Lisbon OH – Indianapolis IN) author, preacher, minister, healing evangelist, aka Mother of Pentecost.

Emma Lazarus (22 Jul 1849 – 19 Nov 1887 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, author, Georgist, playwright, short story writer.

Mary Williamson Averell Harriman (22 Jul 1851 – 07 Nov 1932 | New York NY – New York NY) patron of arts, philanthropist, funded eugenics records / mental retardation research, founded American Orchestral Society, financed Tri-National Exhibition of Contemporary Art.

Mother Marie Joseph Butler (22 Jul 1860 – 23 Apr 1940 | Ballynunnery IE – Tarrytown NY) Irish-American, born Johanna Butler, Roman Catholic nun, educator / school foundress, founded Mother Butler Mission Guilds, instituted retreat movement for Catholic laywomen.

21 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Anna Morrison Jackson (21 Jul 1831 – 24 Mar 1915 | Lincoln NC – Charlotte NC) author, memoirist, military / political wife, aka Widow of the Confederacy.

Henrietta Maria Morse Chamberlain King (21 Jul 1832 – 31 Mar 1925 | Boonville MO – Kingsville TX) Texas rancher, philanthropist, public school builder.

Mary Foote Henderson (21 Jul 1842 – 16 Jul 1931 | Seneca Falls NY – Bar Harbor ME) author, suffragist, art collector, social activist, community developer, temperance leader.

Myra Horner Camden Atkinson (21 Jul 1844 – 13 Apr 1925 | Lumberport WV – Clarksburg WV) First Lady of Virginia, genealogist / family historian.

Blanche Willis Howard von Teuffel (21 Jul 1847 – 07 Oct 1898 | Bangor ME – Munich DEU) pianist, novelist.

20 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah [Sally] Wister (20 Jul 1761 – 21 Apr 1804 | Philadelphia PA – Germantown PA) diarist, Quaker, journal writer.

Laura Keene (20 Jul 1826 – 04 Nov 1873 | Winchester UK – Montclair NJ) actress, innovator, impresario, theater manager, born Mary Frances Moss.

Philomène Belliveau (20 Jul 1854 – 17 Mar 1940 | Memramcook NB – Rimouski QC) Acadian artist, portrait painter.

Hortense Sparks Ward (20 Jul 1872 – 05 Dec 1944 | Matagorda TX – Houston TX) writer, lawyer, suffragist, pamphleteer, women’s rights activist, first female attorney admitted to Texas bar, first female registered voter in Harris County, Special Chief Justice of first woman’s Appellate Court of Texas.

Anne Ryan McFadden (20 Jul 1889 – 18 Apr 1954 | Hoboken NJ – Morristown NJ) artist, painter, collagist, printmaker.