16 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

Lucy Virginia French (16 Mar 1825 – 31 Mar 1881 | Accomack County VA – McMinnville TN) poet, author, songwriter, pen name L’Inconnue.


Anna B. Alcott Pratt (16 Mar 1831 – 13 Jul 1893 | Germantown PA – Concord MA) author, folk / literary family figure.


Clara Weaver Parrish (16 Mar 1861 – 11 Nov 1925 | Selma AL – New York NY) painter, illustrator, printmaker, stained glass window designer.


Sara Corning (16 Mar 1872 – 05 May 1969 | Chegoggin NS – Yarmouth NS) nurse, humanitarian, WWI Red Cross nurse, saved wartime orphans, founded orphanage on Island of Syros, graduate of Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Hanover, New Hamsphire.


Loja Saarinen (16 Mar 1879 – 21 Apr 1968 | Helsinki FI – Bloomfield Hills MI) author, sculptor, textile artist, Finnish-American, opened Studio Loja Saarinen, founded weaving department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, born Minna Carolina Mathilde Louise Gesellius.