22 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Louisa Van Velsor Whitman (22 Sep 1795 – 23 May 1873 | West Hills NY – West Hills NY) Dutch-American, homesteader, literary family member, poet Walt Whitman’s mother.

Charlotte Sophia Sewall Eastman (22 Sep 1816 – 25 May 1896 | Hallowell ME – York ME) artist, portrait painter.

Jane Manning James (22 Sep 1822 – 16 Apr 1908 | Wilton CT – Salt Lake City UT) early LDS member, aka Aunt Jane, first black female Mormon pioneer in Utah Territory.

Mary Clement Leavitt (22 Sep 1830 – 05 Feb 1912 | Hopkinton NH – Boston MA) educator, suffragist, social reformer, girl’s school founder, women / children’s rights activist, international temperance leader / lecturer / founder.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (22 Sep 1872 – 04 Jun 1958 | Cambridge MA – Portsmouth NH) author, magazine writer, aka Mrs. Fordyce Coburn.

21 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (21 Sep 1809 – 26 Feb 1871 | Salem MA – London UK) painter, illustrator, essayist, journal editor.

Mary Monnett Bain (21 Sep 1833 – 30 Jul 1885 | Delaware OH – Osawatomie KS) philanthropist, women’s higher education advocate / supporter.

Mary T. Waggaman (21 Sep 1846 – 30 Jul 1931 | Baltimore MD – Baltimore MD) prolific children’s author and religious novelist.

Susan Macdowell Eakins (21 Sep 1851 – 27 Dec 1938 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) artist, painter, photographer, artist’s model.

Sara Delano Roosevelt (21 Sep 1854 – 07 Sep 1941 | Newburgh NY – Hyde Park NY) memoirist, mother of FDR, political family member, mother-in-law to Eleanor Roosevelt.

20 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lidian Jackson Emerson (20 Sep 1802 – 13 Nov 1892 | Plymouth MA – Concord MA) intellectual, literary figure / hostess, abolitionist, animal welfare activist, women’s / Native American rights advocate.

Elizabeth [Libby] Smith Miller (20 Sep 1822 – 22 May 1911 | Peterboro NY – Geneva NY) author, suffragist, biographer, women’s dress code reformer, women’s movement financial supporter.

Kate Harrington (20 Sep 1831 – 29 Sep 1917 | Allegheny City PA – Fort Madison IA) poet, teacher, children’s author, primer and speller writer, born Rebecca Harrington Smith, aka Rebecca Smith Pollard, pioneered / produced first sequential reading program of intensive synthetic phonics for children used in American public schools [till 1937].

Alice Rollit Coe (20 Sep 1858 – 08 Dec 1940 | Rawdon QC – Seattle WA) poet, author, immigrant, pen name: May B. Knott.

Edith Guerrier (20 Sep 1870 – 1958 | New Bedford MA – Boston MA) author, librarian, progressive library program activist, founded Paul Revere Pottery and Saturday Night Girls groups in Boston’s North End.

19 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Rosetta Sherwood Hall (19 Sep 1865 – 05 Apr 1951 | Liberty NY – Ocean Grove NJ) author, doctor, educator, missionary, mission school founder.

Nellie Augusta Knopf (19 Sep 1875 – 30 Apr 1962 | Chicago IL – Lansing MI) artist, landscape / still life painter.

Vera Charlotte Scott Cushman (19 Sep 1876 – 01 Feb 1946 | Ottawa IL – Savannah GA) social worker, YWCA pioneer, prolific fundraiser, WWI soldier support activist.

Mabel Vernon (19 Sep 1883 – 02 Sep 1975 | Wilmington DE – Washington DC) Quaker, pacifist, suffragist leader, member of American Woman Suffrage Association.

Sarah Louise [Sadie] Delany (19 Sep 1889 – 25 Jan 1999 | Lynch Station VA – Mount Vernon NY) author, teacher, memoirist.

18 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Edna Dean Proctor (18 Sep 1829 – 18 Dec 1923 | Henniker NH – Framingham MA) poet, author, short fiction writer, known as a master of pathos.

Lucy Martin Donnelly (18 September 1870 – 03 August 1948 | Ithaca NY – Bryn Mawr PA) poet, author, educator, letter correspondent.

Margarete Muehsam-Edelheim (18 Sep 1891 – 25 May 1975 | Berlin DEU- New York NY) editor, lawyer, journalist, women’s rights activist, emigrated from Nazi Germany, founded Leo Baeck Institute in New York.

Agnes George de Mille (18 Sep 1905 – 07 Oct 1993 | New York NY – New York NY) author, dancer, memoirist, master teacher, choreographer.

Edna Dean Proctor (18 Sep 1829 – 18 Dec 1923 | Henniker NH – Framingham MA) poet, author, short fiction writer, known as a master of pathos.

17 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mercy Ruggles Bisbee Jackson (17 Sep 1802 – 13 Dec 1877 | Hardwick MA – Boston MA) writer, lecturer, suffragist, physician, homeopath, school teacher, temperance activist, mother of eleven children, advocate for women’s medical education, professor of children’s diseases at newly-opened Boston University School of Medicine, applied / denied access to medical training for 10 years because she was a woman.

Cora Frances Stoddard (17 Sep 1872 – 13 May 1936 | Irvington NE – Dorchester MA) author, temperance activist, The Scientific Temperance Federation secretary / active member.

Emily Vanderbilt Sloane Hammond (17 Sep 1874 – 22 Feb 1970 | Manhattan NY – Manhattan NY) author, heiress, musician, socialite, philanthropist, charities activist, founder of Parents’ League of New York.

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (17 Sep 1880 – 01 Jan 1980 | Philadelphia PA – Waterbury CT) figurative sculptor.

Katharine Sergeant Angell White (17 Sep 1892 – 20 Jul 1977 | Winchester MA – Blue Hill ME) author, gardener, New Yorker fiction editor.

16 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Wiseman See (16 Sep 1854 – 31 Jul 1939 | Ontario CA – Ontario CA) candymaker, businesswoman.

Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin (16 Sep 1861 – 1947 | Charleston SC – Boston MA) teacher, inventor, patented Gong and Signal Chair for hotels, second black woman to receive US Patent [note: found no images of the inventor herself; image used is one of an unidentified 19th c. black woman].

Eva Lawrence Watson-Schütze (16 Sep 1867 – 01 May 1935 | Jersey City NJ – Chicago IL) painter, photographer, Photo-Secession movement co-founder.

Clara Edith Work Ayres (16 Sep 1880 – 17 May 1917 | Venice Township OH – onboard USS Mongolia, Atlantic Ocean) nurse, WWI US Red Cross nurse, grocery store owner / manager, one of first two US military women killed in WWI [Helen Burnett Wood the other].

Daisy Ann Peterkin (16 Sep 1884 – 12 Aug 1952 | St. Louis MO – Miami Beach FL) vaudeville toe-dancer, Ziegfield Follies dance member, aka Mademoiselle Dazie.

15 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (15 Sep 1824 – 21 Mar 1906 | Boston MA – Milton MA) poet, children’s author, Christian Scientist, pen name: A. D. T. Whitney.

Sarah Knowles Bolton (15 Sep 1841 – 21 Feb 1916 | Farmington CT – Cleveland OH) poet, writer, biographer, children’s author.

Mary French Swarthout (15 Sep 1844 – unknown | Sangerfield NY – Chicago IL) educator, maths textbooks author, Authors’ Club member, vice-president of Illinois Women’s Press Club.

Anna Winlock (15 Sep 1857 – 20 Dec 1904 | Cambridge MA – Boston MA) computer, astronomer, one of the women referred to as ‘The Harvard Computers’ [drawing by Sara Netherway for Cosmos Magazine].

Mary-Cooke Branch Munford (15 Sep 1865 – 03 Jul 1938 | Richmond VA – Richmond VA) educator, suffragist, civil rights activist, labor / health / education reformer.

14 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Emily Pomona Edson Briggs (14 Sep 1830 – 03 Jul 1910 | Burton OH – Washington DC) journalist, first Lincoln White House female correspondent, first president of Women’s National Press Association.

Julia Magruder (14 Sep 1854 – 09 Jun 1907 | Charlottesville VA – Richmond VA) novelist, short story writer.

Alice Stone Blackwell (14 Sep 1857 – 01 Mar 1950 | Orange NJ – Cambridge MA) feminist, suffragist, journalist, social reformer, human rights advocate.

Julia Barlow Platt (14 Sep 1857 – 1935 | San Francisco CA – Pacific Grove CA) author, embryologist, environmental preservationist, Mayor of Pacific Grove [at 74], aka The Woman Who Saved Monterey Bay.

Ellen Beach Yaw (14 Sep 1869 – 09 Sep 1947 | Buffalo NY – Covina CA) coloratura soprano, aka Lark Ellen, unpublished memoirist.

13 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Theodosia Johnes Ford (13 Sep 1741 – 31 Aug 1824 | Southampton NY – Morristown NJ) historical folk figure, land / estate manager, hosted winter headquarters for Washington family / guests / troops.

Laura Ingersoll Secord (13 Sep 1775 – 17 Oct 1868 | Great Barrington, Province of Massachusetts Bay – Village of Chippewa ON) folk figure, Canadian heroine, cookbook author.

Emily Bradley Neal Haven (13 Sep 1827 – 23 Aug 1863 | Hudson NY – Mamaroneck NY) children’s author, magazine editor, popular Episcopal writer, pen names: Cousin Alice, Alice B. Neal, Alice B. Haven, Clara Cushman, Cornelia Holyroyd, Mrs Manners.

Pamela Clemens Moffett (13 Sep 1827 – 31 Aug 1904 | Jamestown TN – Greenwich CT) musician, music teacher, literary family figure.

Marian [Clover] Hooper Adams (13 Sep 1843 – 06 Dec 1885 | Boston MA – Washington DC) hostess, socialite, pioneering portrait photographer.