03 Aug | Women.Words.Work

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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.

29 Jul | Women.Words.Work

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Isabella Marshall Graham (29 Jul 1742 – 27 Jul 1814 | Lanarkshire SCT – New York NY) Scottish-American educator, philanthropist, founded Society for Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children / one of first women’s societies to engage in active public benevolence and successfully petition for shares of public welfare funds.

Julia Gardiner Tyler (29 Jul 1820 – 10 Jul 1889 | East Hampton NY – Richmond VA) aka Lady Presidentress, Confederate plantation owner / overseer, first US Presidential First Lady to be photographed.

Caroline Frances Putnam (29 Jul 1826 – 14 Jan 1917 | Warren MA – Lottsburg VA) educator, abolitionist, Unitarian, civil rights activist, lifelong companion of Sallie Holley, co-founded Holley School for freed slaves.

Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (29 Jul 1861 – 14 Feb 1884 | Chestnut Hill MA – New York NY) political family figure, President Theodore Roosevelt’s first wife.

Theresa Mary Gowanlock Johnson (29 Jul 1863 – 12 Sep 1899 | Tintern ON – Lincoln ON) author, pioneer, Upper Canadian, Indian captive / survivor.

27 Jul | Women.Words.Work

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Matilda Ann [Linda] Judson Richards (27 Jul 1841 – 16 Apr 1930 | West Potsdam NY – Boston MA) nurse, author, memoirist, nursing educator, first professional trained US nurse, established nursing schools in US and Japan, created first system for keeping individual medical records for hospitalized patients.

Helen Gerrells Stoddard (27 Jul 1850 – 31 Dec 1940 | Sheboygan WI – Dallas TX) educator, politician, community activist, Texas Women’s University co-founder, Women’s Christian Temperance Union leader, first woman to run for Congress in California.

Elizabeth Ann Plankinton (27 Jul 1853 – 1923 | Milwaukee WI – Lucerne CHE) humanitarian, philanthropist, artists / artisans patron, funded illustrated volume of Plankinton Memorial Book, funded first YWCA building in Milwaukee, aka Miss Lizzie and the Municipal Patroness.

Lucy Maynard Salmon (27 Jul 1853 – 14 Feb 1927 | Fulton NY – Poughkeepsie NY) author, historian, professor of history, new social history advocate.

Augusta Stowe Gullen (27 Jul 1857 – 25 Sep 1943 | Mount Pleasant ON – Toronto ON) physician, social reformer, women’s rights activist, first woman to gain a medical degree in Canada, Women’s College Hospital co-founder.

02 Jul | Women.Words.Work

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Ellen Liddy Watson (02 Jul 1860 – 20 Jul 1889 | Aran Lake ON – Natrona County WY) folk figure, aka Cattle Kate, Ella Watson, Mrs James Averell, accused of cattle rustling, only woman ever lynched in Wyoming.

Grace Raymond Hebard (02 Jul 1861 – 11 Oct 1936 | Clinton IA – Laramie WY) author, historian, suffragist, pioneering scholar, political economist.

Harriet Brooks Pitcher (02 Jul 1876 – 17 Apr 1933 | Exeter ON – Montreal QC) professor, researcher, first female to earn Master’s degree at McGill University, Canada’s first female nuclear physicist, focused on nuclear radioactivity and transmutations.

Lucy Sprague Mitchell (02 Jul 1878 – 15 Oct 1967 | Chicago IL – New York NY) children’s book author, adult non-fiction author, autobiographical author, first female dean UCAL Berkeley, child development / education researcher, founded Bureau of Educational Experiments [became Bank Street College].

Corinne Douglas Robinson Alsop Cole (02 Jul 1886 – 23 Jun 1971 | Orange NJ – Avon CT) state politician, national political family member.

30 May | Women.Words.Work

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Zilpah Polly Grant Banister (30 May 1794 – 03 Dec 1874 | Norfolk CT – Newburyport MA) educator, pamphleteer, women’s seminary founder.

Persis Foster Eames Albee (30 May 1836 – 07 Dec 1914 | Newry ME – Templeton MA) aka PFE Albee and The First Avon Lady, women’s business trainer / advocate, professional saleswoman for California Perfume Company [later Avon Products].

Katrina Trask (30 May 1853 – 08 Jan 1922 | Brooklyn NY – Saratoga Springs NY) poet, memoirist, playwright, philanthropist, co-founder of Yaddo artists’ retreat, aka Kate Nicholes Trask.

Florence Casler (30 May 1869 – 15 Mar 1954 | Welland ON – Yolo CA) plumber, groundbreaking female architect / contractor / real estate developer of downtown Los Angeles, first female / then sole female director Peoples Bank of Los Angeles.

Josephine Preston Peabody (30 May 1874 – 04 Dec 1922 | New York NY – Cambridge MA) poet, dramatist.

01 May | Women.Words.Work

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Tabitha Moffat Brown (01 May 1780 – 04 May 1858 | Brimfield MA – Forest Grove OR) educator, pioneer emigrant, social reformer, aka Mother Symbol of Oregon, orphanage co-founder / facilitator, founded Tualatin Academy [later Pacific University].

Fidelia Fiske (01 May 1816 – 26 Jul 1864 | Shelburne MA – Shelburne MA) memoirist, religious missionary, women’s educational activist, Mount Holyoke Seminary college teacher, founder / first principal of Nestorian Female Seminary in Persia (Iran).

Emily Howard Jennings Stowe (01 May 1831 – 30 Apr 1903 | Norwich Township ON – Toronto ON) educator, suffragist, Quaker / then Unitarian, Canada’s first practicing female homeopathic physician, founding member of Toronto Women’s Literary Guild, founding president of Dominion Women’s Enfranchisement Association [became Canadian Suffrage Association].

Mary Harris Jones (01 May 1837 – 11 Nov 1930 | Cork IE – Adelphi MD) author, dressmaker, school teacher, labor activist, aka Mother Jones, community organizer, autobiographical author.

Martha Jane Burke Cannary (01 May 1852 – 01 Aug 1903 | Princeton MO – Terry SD) folk figure, memoirist, aka Calamity Jane, frontierswoman, professional scout.