22 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Emily Huntington Miller (22 Oct 1833 – 02 Nov 1913 | Brooklyn CT – Northfield MN) poet, author, educator, hymn writer, laid groundwork for formation of National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union [WCTU].

Abigail Scott Duniway (22 Oct 1834 – 11 Oct 1915 | Groveland IL – Portland OR) writer, suffragist, women’s rights activist, newspaper editor / publisher.

Mary Jane McAfee Atkins (22 Oct 1836 – 13 Oct 1911 | Harrodsburg KY – Colorado Springs CO) heiress, teacher, philanthropist, founded Kansas City Art Museum [now known as Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art].

Annie Louise Cary Raymond (22 Oct 1842 – 03 Apr 1921 | Wayne ME – Norwalk CT) opera / concert singer.

Charlotte Champe Stearns Eliot (22 Oct 1843 – 10 Sep 1929 | Baltimore MD – Cambridge MA) poet, teacher, social worker, mother of T. S. Eliot.

21 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Caroline Carmichael McIntosh Fillmore (21 Oct 1813 – 11 Aug 1881 | Morristown NJ – Buffalo NY) heiress, eccentric, second wife of US President Millard Fillmore.

Martha [Mattie] Whitney Summerhayes (21 Oct 1844 – 12 May 1926 | Nantucket MA – Schenectady NY) memoirist, travel writer, world traveler, pioneer Army wife, autobiographical author.

Margaret Eleanor Theodora Addison (21 Oct 1868 – 18 Dec 1940 | Horning’s Mills ON – Toronto ON) diarist, educator, first dean of women at Victoria College, Ontario.

Josephine Lovett (21 Oct 1877 – 17 Sep 1958 | San Francisco CA – Rancho Santa Fe CA) stage actress, adapter, screenwriter, riding club co-founder.

Julia Lynch Olin (21 Oct 1882 – 11 Mar 1961 | Glen Cove NY – New York NY) author, publisher, member of Bahá’í faith [later expelled], autobiographical author, co-founded New History Society NYC, formed educational association / monthly magazine The Caravan of East and West.

20 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ellen Hardin Walworth (20 Oct 1832 – 23 Jul 1915 | Jacksonville IL – Washington DC) poet, author, editor, attorney, historian, biographer, social activist, domestic violence survivor / advocate, historic preservationist, Daughters of the American Revolution co-founder.

Elizabeth [Bessie] Bradwell Helmer (20 Oct 1858 – 10 Jan 1927 | Chicago IL – Chicago IL) attorney, publisher, Great Chicago Fire survivor, women’s rights activist / advocate.

Frances Alice Kellor (20 Oct 1873 – 04 Jan 1952 | Columbus OH – New York NY) author, essayist, social reformer / investigator, focus on women and immigrants.

Nellie Mooney McClung (20 Oct 1873 – 01 Sep 1951 | Chatsworth ON – Victoria BC ) novelist, legislator, suffragist, social activist, non-fiction author, one of Canada’s Famous Five.

Inglis Fletcher (20 Oct 1879 – 30 May 1969 | Alton IL – Wilmington NC) novelist, playwright.

19 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anna Murray-Douglass (19 Oct 1813 – 04 Aug 1882 | Denton MD – Washington DC) African-American abolitionist, Underground Railroad activist, first wife of Frederick Douglass.

Amanda Theodocia Jones (19 Oct 1835 – 31 Mar 1914 | East Bloomfield NY – Brooklyn NY) poet, author, inventor, suffragist, spiritualist, Jones Process vacuum canning company founder.

Margaret Hamilton (19 Oct 1840 – 11 Jan 1922 | Rochester NY – Wakefield MA) teacher, Civil War Union nurse, religious Sister of Charity, left Catholic Church and Sisters of Charity, converted to Baptist Church, president National Army Nurse Association.

Annie Smith Peck (19 Oct 1850 – 18 Jul 1935 | Providence RI – New York NY) author, scholar, lecturer, feminist, suffragist, adventurer, mountaineer, travel writer.

Bertha Knight Landes (19 Oct 1868 – 29 Nov 1943 | Ware MA – Ann Arbor MI) Seattle WA mayor, women’s activist, first female elected to govern major US city.

18 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet (18 Oct 1818 – 03 Jul 1877 | Sodus Point NY – New York NY) poet, author, editor, historian, translator, first to record lives of American Revolutionary women.

Ellen Browning Scripps (18 Oct 1836 – 03 Aug 1932 | London UK – La Jolla CA) editor, journalist, philanthropist, women’s education / democratic principles advocate, funded La Jolla Women’s Club building, founded Scripps College / Scripps Aquarium / The Scripps Research Institute [TSRI] / Scripps Institute of Oceanography [and many more].

Emma Elizabeth Brown (18 Oct 1847 – 1907 | Concord NH – Massachusetts) poet, artist, author, essayist, biographer, watercolorist, pen names: B.E.E. and E.E.Brown.

Sarah Tyson Rorer (18 Oct 1849 – 27 Dec 1937 | Richboro PA – Colebrook PA) author, domestic science pioneer educator, Pennsylvania Chautauqua School of Domestic Science director.

Helen Reimensnyder Martin (18 Oct 1868 – 29 Jun 1939 | Lancaster PA – New Canaan CT) novelist, short fiction writer, focus on Pennsylvania Dutch / Amish / Mennonite.

17 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anne Parrish (17 Oct 1761 – 26 Dec 1800 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) Quaker, educator, philanthropist, school founder, girls’ and women’s rights activist.

Ellen Palmer Allerton (17 Oct 1835 – 31 Aug 1893 | Centerville NY – Padonia KS) poet.

Laura Read Wilder Wight (17 Oct 1861 – 13 Nov 1954 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) heiress, family member of Hawaiian railway magnate.

Sophia Hayden Bennett (17 Oct 1868 – 03 Feb 1953 | Santiago CL – Winthrop MA) architect, first female MIT graduate in architecture, designed Woman’s Building at World’s Columbia Exposition 1892.

Clara Longworth de Chambrun (17 Oct 1873 – 31 May 1954 | Cincinnati OH – Paris FR) author, novelist, biographer, Shakespeare scholar, patron of the arts, founding member of The American Library in Paris.

16 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Isabelle Walton Lusk (16 Oct 1835 – 22 Jan 1933 | Old Town ME – Sacramento CA) memoirist, travel author, national traveler.

Lilian Leland Andrews (16 Oct 1857 – c. 1930 | New York NY – unknown) author, Freethinker, world traveler, travel writer, Liberal League lecturer.

Victoria Kaʻiulani Cleghorn (16 Oct 1875 – 06 Mar 1899 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) artist, princess, cultural ambassador, aka Victoria Kaʻiulani Kalaninuiahilapalapa Cleghorn.

Anna Elizabeth Keener (16 Oct 1895 – 22 Jul 1982 | Flagler CO – Santa Fe NM) artist, painter, author, WWI Navy yeoman.

Marguerite Luella Rawalt (16 Oct 1895 – 16 Dec 1989 | Prairie City IL – Corpus Christi TX) author, attorney, feminist, women’s rights activist.

15 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Van Lew (15 Oct 1818 – 25 Sep 1900 | Richmond VA – Richmond VA) diarist, memoirist, aka Crazy Bet, Civil War Union spy / ring leader, post-War postmistress.

Helen Hunt Fiske Jackson (15 Oct 1830 – 12 Aug 1885 | Amherst MA – San Francisco CA) poet, novelist, historian, pen name: H.H., Native American rights activist.

Fannie Jackson Coppin (15 Oct 1837 – 21 Jan 1913 | Washington DC – Philadelphia PA) educator, missionary, African-American, Bethel Institute co-founder.

Florence Adelaide Fowle Adams (15 Oct 1863 – 31 Jul 1916 | Chelsea MA – Pierce WA) orator, author, gesture / pantomime researcher, educator at Boston School of Oratory, focus on Delsarte method of dramatic expression, founded Boston Ideal Tableaux Company for young women staging tableaux vivants.

Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (15 Oct 1872 – 28 Dec 1961 | Wytheville VA – Washington DC) First Lady, memoirist, unofficial acting US President.

14 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Laura Askew Haygood (14 Oct 1845 – 29 Apr 1900 | Watkinsville GA – Shanghai CN) educator, missionary, memoirist, letter correspondent.

Mary Theodora [Dora] Starbuck Ebert (14 Oct 1856 – 29 Feb 1924 | Winston NC – Old Richmond NC) boarding house owner / operator, Moravian church and settlement family member.

Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (14 Oct 1856 – 03 Nov 1928 | Clinton IA – Geneva CH) writer, geographer, photographer, Washington DC cherry-tree-planting advocate, first female board member of National Geographic Society.

Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils (14 Oct 1863 – 25 May 1936 | Chilton WI – San Francisco CA) reporter, journalist, columnist, pen names Annie Laurie and Winifred Black.

13 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley (13 Oct 1744 – 22 Jan 1832 | Philadelphia PA – Carlisle PA) folk figure, aka Molly Pitcher, American Revolutionary War heroine.

Lillie Langtry (13 Oct 1853 – 12 Feb 1929 | Jersey UK – Monaco FR) British-American actress, vineyard owner, autobiographical author, thoroughbred race horse farm owner, stage production company founder / director, born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton.

Eleanor Clarke Slagle (13 Oct 1868 – 18 Sep 1942 | Hobart NY – Yonkers NY) social worker, occupational therapy pioneer / leader / founder, founding member of National Society for Promotion of Occupational Therapy.

Louise Closser Hale (13 Oct 1872 – 26 Jul 1933 | Springfield MA – Los Angeles CA) actress, novelist, playwright.