30 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth [Eliza] Kortright Monroe (30 Jun 1768 – 23 Sep 1830 | New York, British America – Richmond VA) US First Lady / Hostess, world traveler, political activist, aka La Belle Américaine, White House social customs advocate / innovator.

Mabel Cratty (30 Jun 1868 – 27 Feb 1928 | Bellaire OH – New York NY) writer, teacher, YWCA activist / administrator, women’s rights advocate.

Louise Pound (30 Jun 1872 – 27 Jun 1958 | Lincoln NE – Lincoln NE) author, athlete, feminist, folklorist, professor.

Lydia Jane Roberts (30 Jun 1879 – 28 May 1965 | Hope Township MI – Rio Piedras PR) author, nutritionist, home economics pioneer, vitamin / mineral RDA innovator.

Bertha Pitts Campbell (30 Jun 1889 – 02 Apr 1990 | Winfield KS – Seattle WA) educator, suffragist, civil rights activist, founding member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

29 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Hannah Maria Libby Smith (29 Jun 1828 – 21 Sep 1906 | Ossipee NH – Provo UT) bobbin doffer, rug weaver, needleworker, historical figure, Mormon pioneer / educator.

Celia Laighton Thaxter (29 Jun 1835 – 25 Aug 1894 | Portsmouth NH – Appledore Island ME) poet, gardener, short story writer.

Julia Clifford Lathrop (29 Jun 1858 – 15 Apr 1932 | Rockford IL – Rockford IL) author, social worker, educational reformer, mother / child rights activist, Director US Children’s Bureau, first-ever female to head federal US bureau.

Emma Azalia Hackley (29 Jun 1867 – 13 Dec 1922 | Murfreesboro TN – Detroit MI) singer, author, lecturer, musician, child prodigy, school teacher, music publisher, civic / social / civil rights activist, founding executive director Colored Women’s League, founded Hackley Choral Society and Voice Normal Institute.

Elizabeth Lehman Myers (29 Jun 1869 – 06 Jan 1936 | Bethlehem PA – Bethlehem PA) historical author / essayist.

28 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mother Benedicta [Sybilla] Riepp (28 Jun 1825 – 15 Mar 1862 | Waal DEU – St. Cloud MN) Benedictine nun, educator, missionary to Pennsylvania Germans.

Eliza Edmunds Hewitt (28 Jun 1851 – 24 Apr 1920 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) writer, hymnist, educator, Sunday School superintendent.

Helen Francis Hood (28 Jun 1863 – 22 Jan 1949 | Chelsea MA – Brookline MA) pianist, composer, teacher.

Alice May Douglas (28 Jun 1865 – 06 Jan 1943 | Bath ME – Bath ME) poet, peace activist, children’s author, newspaper editor, founder and composer of Peace Makers’ Band, head of Women’s Christian Temperance Union’s Peace and Arbitration.

Grace Rainey Rogers (28 Jun 1867 – 09 May 1943 | Cleveland OH – Greenwich CT) heiress, art collector, philanthropist.

27 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Hannah Mather Crocker (27 Jun 1752 – 11 Jul 1829 | Roxbury MA – Boston MA) essayist, educator, school founder, women’s rights activist, advocate for women Freemasons, Revolutionary War spy, authored first American book on rights of women.

Maria Monk (27 Jun 1816 – 08 Sep 1849 | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu QC – Roosevelt Island NY) author, memoirist, religious sister, controversial Canadian folk figure, alleged infanticide / systemic sexual abuse in Catholic convent.

Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney (27 Jun 1824 – 19 Nov 1904 | Boston MA – Jamaica Plain MA) writer, editor, reformer, philanthropist, secretary of School of Design for Women.

Eugenia Scholay Washington (27 Jun 1838 – 30 Nov 1900 | Charles Town WV – Washington DC) historian, civil servant, co-founded Daughters of American Revolution / Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America.

Harriet Hubbard Ayer (27 Jun 1849 – 23 Nov 1903 | Chicago IL – New York NY) socialite, journalist, essayist, kidnap victim, proto-feminist, founded first successful US female-owned cosmetics company, editor of New York World newspaper women’s pages, highest paid US female journalist at the time of her death.

26 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Pierce (26 Jun 1767 – 19 Jan 1852 | Litchfield CT – Litchfield CT) educator, girls’ school founder, women’s education advocate.

Loreta Janeta Velazquez (26 Jun 1842 – 26 Jan 1923 | Havana CU – Washington DC) memoirist, Confederate Civil War spy / soldier, aka Lieutenant Harry Buford, died as Loreta J. Beard at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for the Insane.

Mary Abby Van Kleeck (26 Jun 1883 – 08 Jun 1972 | Glenham NY – Kingston NY) author, feminist, social activist, planned economy advocate.

Alice Leslie [Mopsie] Walker Kosmopoulos (26 Jun 1885 – 25 Jun 1954 | San Francisco CA – Santa Barbara CA) author, multi-linguist, archaeologist, leading expert of Neolithic Period in Southern Greece.

Elizabeth Denny Pierce Blegen (26 Jun 1888 – 21 Sep 1966 | Allegheny PA – Athens GR) author, classicist, educator, archaeologist, art history professor, assistant curator at Vassar’s Art Gallery.

25 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Harriet Mann Miller (25 Jun 1831 – 25 Dec 1918 | Auburn NY – Los Angeles CA) naturalist, birdwatcher, ornithologist, children’s writer, pen name Olive Thorne Miller.

Clara Whitehill Hunt (25 Jun 1871 – 10 Jan 1958 | Utica NY – Sudbury MA) teacher, librarian, author, advocate for children’s library services.

Sarah Birdsall Otis Edey (25 Jun 1872 – 17 Mar 1940 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, editor, suffragist, Girl Scout activist.

Rose Cecil O’Neill (25 Jun 1874 – 06 Apr 1944 | Wilkes-Barre PA – Springfield MO) author, illustrator, fine artist, comics artist, Kewpie Doll creator.

Katherine Kennicott Davis (25 Jun 1892 – 20 Apr 1980 | St Joseph MO – Littleton MA) pianist, lyricist, teacher, composer.

24 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis (24 Jun 1831 – 29 Sep 1910 | Washington PA – Mount Kisco NY) author, novelist, journalist.

Elizabeth [Lizzie] Sewall Alcott (24 Jun 1835 – 14 Mar 1858 | Boston MA – Concord MA) writer, literary figure, literary family member.

Ruth Miriam Randall Edström (24 Jun 1867 – 05 Oct 1944 | Wilmington IL – Stockholm SE) peace activist, Unitarian, expatriate, Swedish-American, women’s rights activist, participated in International Women’s Congress, worked on Hague peace conference.

Caroline Ellen Furness (24 Jun 1869 – 09 Feb 1936 | Cleveland OH – New York NY) author, astronomer, astronomy professor at Vassar College, women’s education advocate, first female PhD in Astronomy from Columbia University.

Beatrice Tonnesen (24 Jun 1871 – 12 May 1958 | Winneconne WI – Oshkosh WI) artist, inventor, photographer, Mars Ware sculpture innovator, pioneer in picture calendar photographs, developed process for silhouette photographs, pioneered use of live models in print advertising.

23 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anne Elizabeth McDowell (23 Jun 1826 – 30 Sep 1901 | Smyrna DE – Drexel Hill PA) editor, journalist, publisher, founded Woman’s Advocate weekly newspaper, founded McDowell Free Library for Women for workers at Wanamaker’s Department Store.

Agnes Dean Abbat (23 Jun 1847 – 01 Jan 1917 | New York NY – New York NY) artist, teacher, watercolorist, floral still life / landscape / coastal scene painter, second women elected to the American Water Color Society.

Louise Howland King Cox (23 Jun 1865 – 11 Dec 1945 | San Francisco CA – Windham CT) woodcarver, photographer, stained glass artist, children’s portrait painter.

Mabel Rivers Landrum Torrey (23 Jun 1886 – 01 Apr 1974 | Sterling CO – Ames IA) sculptor, ceramicist, children’s figure specialist, commissioned public sculptor.

Sarah Van Hoosen Jones (23 Jun 1892 – 1972 | Stony Creek MI – Rochester MI) author, breeder, civic leader, genetic researcher, first US female PhD in Animal Genetics.

22 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Emily Austin Perry (22 Jun 1795 – 15 Aug 1851 | Austinville VA – Jones Creek TX) pioneer, heiress, font innovator, religious / educational philanthropist.

Caroline Wells Healey Dall (22 Jun 1822 – 17 Dec 1912 | Boston MA – Washington DC) author, feminist, reformer, club woman, Transcendentalist.

Kate Mason Rowland (22 Jun 1840 – 28 Jun 1916 | Detroit MI – Richmond VA) editor, author, historian, biographer, genealogist, historic preservationist, charter member of United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Harriett Mulford Stone Lothrop (22 Jun 1844 – 02 Aug 1924 | New Haven CT – San Francisco CA) aka Margaret Sidney, publisher, literary hostess, children’s fiction author, historical preservationist, Children of the American Revolution founder / facilitator.

Caroline Love Goodwin O’Day (22 Jun 1869 – 04 Jan 1943 | Perry GA – Rye NY) artist, politician, school board president, third woman / first NY Democratic Congresswoman, New York State Board of Social Welfare Commissioner.

21 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Theodosia Bartow Burr Alston (21 Jun 1783 – 29 Dec 1812 | Albany NY – lost at sea off coast of South Carolina) folk figure, letter correspondent, First Lady of South Carolina, US Vice Presidential daughter.

Minnie Dessau Louis (21 Jun 1841 – 12 Mar 1922 | Philadelphia PA – Manhattan NY) poet, author, educator, community leader, co-founder of National Council of Jewish Women.

Mary Salome Cutler Fairchild (21 Jun 1855 – 20 Dec 1921 | Dalton MA – Takoma Park MD) author, librarian, library activist / educator.

Martha Van Rensselaer (21 Jun 1864 – 26 May 1932 | Randolph NY – New York NY) author, editor, educator, domestic scientist, founding co-director Cornell College of Home Economics.

Mary Cromwell Jarrett (21 Jun 1876 – 04 Aug 1961 | Baltimore MD – New York NY) author, educator, researcher, psychiatric social worker, pioneer work with post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD].