21 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Nancy H. Adsit (21 May 1825 – 27 Apr 1902 | Palermo NY – Milwaukee WI) art lecturer / educator / essayist, first US female insurance agent.

Elizabeth Storrs Billings Mead (21 May 1832 – 25 Mar 1917 | Conway MA – Coconut Grove FL) author, educator, president of Oberlin and Mount Holyoke Colleges.

Anna Callender Brackett (21 May 1836 – 18 Mar 1911 | Boston MA – Summit NJ) author, educator, translator, philosopher, first female normal school principal, editor of New England Journal of Education.

Mary Virginia [Jennie] Wade (21 May 1843 – 03 Jul 1863 | Gettysburg VA – Gettysburg VA) Civil War Union supporter, lone civilian casualty at Battle of Gettysburg.

Amelia [Amy] Muller Fay (21 May 1844 – 28 Feb 1928 | Bayou Goula LA – Cambridge MA) author, musician, concert pianist.

20 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Dolley Payne Todd Madison (20 May 1768 – 12 Jul 1849 | North Carolina Province, British America – Washington DC) US Presidential First Lady, memoirist, letter correspondent.

Mary Ramsey Lemons Wood (20 May 1787 – 01 Jan 1908 | Knoxville TN – Hillsboro OR) pioneer, died as oldest person at that time (disputed), aka Oldest Methodist in the World, First Mother Queen of Oregon Pioneers.

Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell (20 May 1825 – 05 Nov 1921 | Henrietta NY – Elizabeth NJ) author, Unitarian pastor, women’s rights activist, first US female ordained minister.

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (20 May 1851 – 09 Jul 1926 | Lenox MA – New York NY) author, religious sister, memoirist, social worker, aka Mother Mary Alphonsa.

19 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Miriam Peale (19 May 1800 – 04 Feb 1885 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) still-life / portrait painter.

Margaret Junkin Preston (19 May 1820 – 28 Mar 1897 | Milton PA – Baltimore MD) poet, essayist, memoirist, Confederate, blind later in life.

Fidelia Bridges (19 May 1834 – 14 May 1923 | Salem MA – Canaan CT) visual artist, plein-air painter, watercolorist.

Catharine [Kate] Furbish (19 May 1834 – 06 Dec 1931 | Exeter NH – Brunswick ME) botanist, illustrator, watercolorist, co-founded Maine Botanical Society.

Mary Clare de Graffenried (19 May 1849 – 26 Apr 1921 | Macon GA – Washington DC) author, social investigator / reformer.

18 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Edwards Bryan (18 May 1846 – 15 Jun 1913 | Lloyd FL – Clarkston GA) poet, author, essayist, journalist.

Gertrude Käsebier (18 May 1852 – 13 Oct 1934 | Des Moines IA – New York NY) women’s photography advocate, pioneering artistic / portrait / pictorial / photographer.

Elisabeth Luther Cary (18 May 1867 – 13 Jul 1936 | Brooklyn NY – Brooklyn NY) art critic, biographer, translator.

Rachelle Slobodinsky Yarros (18 May 1869 – 17 Mar 1946 | Kiev RU – Chicago IL) author, physician, reformer, women’s rights activist, first woman admitted to College of Physicians and Surgeons in Boston.

17 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Annie [Narna] Payson Call (17 May 1853 – 02 Feb 1940 | Arlington MA – Waltham MA) author, healer, librarian, Swedenborgian, writer for Ladies Home Journal.

Mary Devens (17 May 1857 – 13 Mar 1920 | Ware MA – Cambridge MA) pictorial photographer, Photo-Secession member.

Helen May Butler Young (17 May 1867 – 16 Jun 1957 | Keene NH – Covington KY) bandmaster, aka The Female Sousa, first all-women brass band leader.

Dorothy Gibson (17 May 1889 – 17 Feb 1946 | Hoboken NJ – Paris, France) actress, scriptwriter, Titanic survivor, acted in first Titanic film, alleged WWII intelligence operative.

Louise Crenshaw Ray (17 May 1890 – 23 Oct 1956 | Butler AL – Birmingham AL) poet.

16 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (16 May 1804 – 03 Jan 1894 | Billerica MA – Jamaica Plain MA) US editor, writer, educator, translator, school founder, bookstore owner, Transcendentalist, kindergarten founder / teacher / activist.

Mary Nimmo Moran (16 May 1842 – 25 Sep 1899 | Strathaven SCT – East Hampton NY) Scottish-American etcher, landscape artist.

Elizabeth Armstrong Reed (16 May 1842 – 18 Jun 1915 | Winthrop ME – Chicago IL) editor, author, Oriental scholar.

LaSalle Corbell Pickett (16 May 1843 – 22 Mar 1931 | Nansemond VA – Richmond VA) US author, lecturer, biographer Civil War Confederate memoirist.

Matilda Smyrell Calder Thurston (16 May 1875 – 18 Apr 1958 | Hartford CT – Auburndale MA) teacher, missionary, memoirist, founded Ginling College in Nanking.

15 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Susan Barber Lloyd Jones (15 May 1832 – 26 Oct 1911 | Rome NY – Madison WI) author, speaker, activist, hymnist, Unitarian, clubwoman, women’s ministerial activist.

Mary Colman Wheeler (15 May 1846 – 10 Mar 1920 | Concord MA – Providence RI) artist, women’s art teacher, founder / first head Wheeler School.

Susanne Vandegrift Moore (15 May 1848 – 1926 | Bucks County PA – Jacksonville FL) editor, publisher, weekly St. Louis Life owner / editor.

Helen Dawes Brown (15 May 1857 – 05 Sep 1941 | Concord MA – Montclair NJ) editor, novelist.

Emily Jordan Folger (15 May 1858 – 21 Feb 1936 | Ironton OH – Glen Cove NY) scholar, philanthropist, rare book collector, co-founded / funded Folger Shakespeare Library, third woman to receive honorary degree from Amherst College.

14 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Minerva Parker Nichols (14 May 1862 – 17 Nov 1949 | Peoria IL – Westport CT) architect, first US female architect to establish independent professional practice.

Mathilde Georgine Schley (14 May 1864 – 20 Mar 1941 | Horicon WI – Milwaukee WI) artist, landscape painter, member Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors.

Alice Boughton (14 May 1866 – 21 Jun 1943 | Brooklyn NY – Brookhaven NY) Photo-Secessionist, portrait photographer, photography-as-art innovator.

Marian Osborne (14 May 1871 – 05 Sep 1931 | Montreal QC – Toronto ON) poet, author, dramatist.

Elizabeth [Lizzie] Beatrice Cooke Fouse (14 May 1875 – 22 Oct 1952 | Lexington KY – Lexington KY) teacher, African-American women’s rights activist, member National Association of Colored Women [NACW] and Kentucky Association of Colored Women [KACW].

13 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Linda Gilbert (13 May 1847 – 24 Oct 1895 | Rochester NY – Mount Vernon NY) poet, inventor, welfare worker, prison reformer, prison library activist.

Ellen Spencer Mussey (13 May 1850 – 21 Apr 1936 | Geneva OH – Washington DC) lawyer, educator, women’s rights / law education activist, Spencerian Handwriting reformer / promoter.

Margaret Marshall Saunders (13 May 1861 – 15 Feb 1947 | Milton NS – Toronto ON) lecturer, romance novelist, children’s author, animal rights advocate.

Jenny Eakin Delony Rice (13 May 1866 – 01 Apr 1949 | Washington AR – Little Rock AR) painter, educator, aka Jenny Myrowitz.

Fay Kellogg (13 May 1871 – 10 Jul 1918 | Milton PA – Brooklyn NY) architect, steel construction specialist, pioneering female architect, women artists’ advocate.

12 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sister Mary Irene FitzGibbon (12 May 1823 – 14 Aug 1896 | London UK – New York NY) teacher, Sister of Charity, founding director New York Foundling Hospital, born Catherine Rosamund FitzGibbon.

Sarah Elizabeth Van der Vort Emery (12 May 1838 – 10 Oct 1895 | Phelps NY – Lansing MI) editor, writer, speaker, suffragist, Universalist, Populist campaigner, Women’s Temperance Union leader.

Matilda Coxe Evans Stevenson (12 May 1849 – 24 Jun 1915 | San Augine TX – Oxon Hill MD) author, ethnologist, Zuni expert / researcher, Women’s Anthropological Society of America president, aka Tilly E. Stevenson.

Louise Phelps Kellogg (12 May 1862 – 11 Jul 1942 | Milwaukee WI – Madison WI) writer, educator, historian.

Ann Bassett (12 May 1878 – 08 May 1956 | Moffat County CO – Leeds UT) folk figure, rancher, cattle rustler, Sundance Kid cohort, Wild Bunch member, alias Etta Place, aka Queen Ann.