09 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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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 | Women’s Words & Works

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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 | Women’s Words & Works

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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 | Women’s Words & Works

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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 | Women’s Words & Works

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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.

04 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Susanna Wright (04 Aug 1697 – 01 Dec 1784 | Lancashire UK – Wright’s Ferry PA) poet, pundit, author, pioneer, translator, landowner, entrepreneur, multi-linguist, first American female silk farmer / producer / exporter.

Clarissa C. Bryan Cook (04 Aug 1811 – 19 Feb 1879 | Sidney NY – Davenport IA) philanthropist, civic / religious / charitable activist, founded Clarissa Cook Library and Clarissa C. Cook Home for the Friendless [later Clarissa C. Cook Retirement Home].

Florence Newell Barbour (04 Aug 1866 – 24 Jul 1946 | Providence RI – Providence RI) pianist, lyricist, musician, composer.

Emily Helen Butterfield (04 Aug 1884 – 22 Mar 1958 | Algonac MI – Neebish Island MI) artist, editor, author, architect, feminist activist, children’s book writer, first licensed female architect in Michigan, pen-and-ink / watercolor illustrator.

Barbara Nachtrieb Grimes Armstrong (04 Aug 1890 – 18 Jan 1976 | San Francisco CA – Oakland CA) author, legal scholar, law professor, social insurance advocate.

03 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Graceanna Lewis (03 Aug 1821 – 25 Feb 1912 | West Chester PA – Media PA) author, suffragist, naturalist, illustrator, ornithologist, Underground Railroad activist.

Nina Clifford (03 Aug 1851 – 14 Jul 1929 | Chatham ON – Detroit MI) madam, folk figure, brothel owner, born Johanna Crow.

Caroline [Carrie] Celestia Ingalls Swanzey (03 Aug 1870 – 02 Jun 1946 | Montgomery KS – Pennington SD) typesetter, folk / literary / pioneer figure.

Sophia Kindrick Alcorn (03 Aug 1883 – 28 Nov 1967 | Stanford KY – Stanford KY) educator, deaf-blind disability rights activist, invented Tadoma Method and Alcorn Symbols, American Association for the Blind (AFB) advocate, first female elder of Stanford Presbyterian Church.

Margaret [Maggie] Kuhn (03 Aug 1905 – 22 Apr 1995 | Buffalo NY – Philadelphia PA) writer, social activist, elder rights advocate, Gray Panther founder, autobiographical author.

02 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Marie-Anne Gaboury Lagimodière (02 Aug 1780 – 14 Dec 1875 | Maskinongé QC – Saint-Boniface MB) pioneer / settler, Canadian folk figure, aka Grandmother of the Red River.

Hannah Jones Armstrong Wilcox (02 Aug 1810 – 19 Aug 1890 | Illinois US – Winterset IA) folk figure, Lincoln neighbor, Lincoln defended her son Duff in Almanac Trial.

Carrie Estelle Betzold Doheny (02 Aug 1875 – 30 Oct 1958 | Philadelphia PA – Los Angeles CA) philanthropist, library foundress, rare book collector, founded Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation, donated book collection to St John’s Seminary (Camarillo CA), funded construction of St Vincent’s Church (LA) and buildings at Loyola Marymount University (LA), former Doheny home Chester Place became Mount St Mary’s College campus, awarded title of Papal Countess (1939) by Pope Pius XII for her services to Catholic Church.

Mittie Maude Lena Gordon Nelson (02 Aug 1889 – 1961 | Webster Parish LA – Ethiopia) African-American, black nationalist, civil rights activist, established Peace Movement of Ethiopia.

Kate [Kathe] Steinitz (02 August 1889 – 07 April 1975 | Upper Silesia [now Poland] – Los Angeles CA) artist, art historian, focus on Bauhaus / Dadaist movement.

01 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Anne Willing Bingham (01 Aug 1764 – 11 May 1801 | Philadelphia PA – Bermuda) socialite, artist’s model, letter correspondent.

Esther Sumner Damon (01 Aug 1814 – 11 Nov 1906 | Bridgewater VT – Plymouth VT) farmer, lay nurse, school teacher, seamstress, last American Revolutionary War widow state pensioner in US.

Maria Mitchell (01 Aug 1818 – 28 Jun 1889 | Nantucket MA – Lynn MA) suffragist, professor, astronomer, first American woman to work as professional astronomer, discovered Miss Mitchell’s Comet [initially named C/1847 Ti, credited to an Italian man].

Ida Celanire Craddock (01 Aug 1857 – 16 Oct 1902 | Philadelphia PA – New York NY) occultist, Unitarian, free speech advocate, women’s rights activist, pastor / priestess of Church of Yoga, first female undergraduate at University of Pennsylvania, institutionalized for her radical books / beliefs / eroticism, ended life by suicide rather than be re-imprisoned.

Angela Diller (01 Aug 1877 – 01 May 1968 | Brooklyn NY – Stamford CT) pianist, author, teacher, Diller-Quaile School of Music co-founder.

31 Jul | Women’s Words & Works

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Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley (31 Jul 1793 – 26 Jul 1827 | Boston MA – Concord MA) scholar, educator, Unitarian, intellectual, letter correspondent.

Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge (31 Jul 1811 – 26 Aug 1890 | Philadelphia PA – Chicago IL) author, fundraiser, welfare worker, Civil War administrator of Chicago Sanitary Commission, co-founded Chicago Home for the Friendless.

Lydia Moss Bradley (31 Jul 1816 – 16 Jan 1908 | Vevay IN – Peoria IL) social activist, college founder, philanthropist, independent financial manager, founded Bradley Polytechnic Institute.

Sarah J.S. Tompkins Garnet (31 Jul 1831 – 17 Sep 1911 | Brooklyn NY – Brooklyn NY) author, educator, suffragist, seamstress, school principal, educational activist, first African-American woman to found Equal Suffrage League organization, first black woman principal in the New York City public school system.

Amelia Stone Quinton (31 Jul 1833 – 23 Jun 1926 | Jamesville NY – Ridgefield Park NJ) Native American rights activist / advocate / organizer, co-founded Women’s National Indian Association.