13 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lucy Blackwell Stone (13 Aug 1818 – 19 Oct 1893 | West Brookfield MA – Boston MA) writer, orator, suffragist, publisher, abolitionist, magazine founder / editor, women’s rights activist / organizer.

Martha Joanna Reade Nash Lamb (13 Aug 1829 – 02 Jan 1893 | Plainfield MA – New York NY) editor, author, historian, child welfare activist, Secretary of US Sanitary Commission, owner / editor-in-chief Magazine of American History.

Leonora Kearney Barry (13 Aug 1849 – 18 Jul 1923 | County Cork IE – Minooka IL) women’s labor rights activist / organizer, sole female Knights of Labor national office holder, aka Mother Lake and America’s First Woman Labor Activist.

Mary Ellen [Ella] Quinlan O’Neill (13 Aug 1857 – 28 Feb 1922 | New Haven CT – Los Angeles CA) pianist, literary figure / inspiration, mother of playwright Eugene O’Neill.

Annie Oakley (13 Aug 1860 – 03 Nov 1926 | near Woodland OH – Greenville OH) folk figure, philanthropist, aka Little Sure Shot, exhibition sharpshooter, born Phoebe Ann Moses, autobiographical writer.

22 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Newton Woolsey Howland (22 Jul 1835 – 03 Jul 1917 | New York NY – Newport RI) author, memoirist, Civil War Union nurse, Howland Circulating Library co-founder.

Maria Beulah Woodworth-Etter (22 Jul 1844 – 16 Sep 1924 | Lisbon OH – Indianapolis IN) author, preacher, minister, healing evangelist, aka Mother of Pentecost.

Emma Lazarus (22 Jul 1849 – 19 Nov 1887 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, author, Georgist, playwright, short story writer.

Mary Williamson Averell Harriman (22 Jul 1851 – 07 Nov 1932 | New York NY – New York NY) patron of arts, philanthropist, funded eugenics records / mental retardation research, founded American Orchestral Society, financed Tri-National Exhibition of Contemporary Art.

Mother Marie Joseph Butler (22 Jul 1860 – 23 Apr 1940 | Ballynunnery IE – Tarrytown NY) Irish-American, born Johanna Butler, Roman Catholic nun, educator / school foundress, founded Mother Butler Mission Guilds, instituted retreat movement for Catholic laywomen.

31 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jessie Ann Benton Frémont (31 May 1824 – 27 Dec 1902 | Rockbridge VA – Los Angeles CA) author, memoirist, abolitionist, political activist, short story writer.

Kate Kennedy (31 May 1827 – 18 Mar 1890 | Gaskinstown IE – Oakland CA) essayist, educator, educational reformer, teacher tenure activist / advocate.

Emily Perkins Bissell (31 May 1861 – 08 Mar 1948 | Wilmington DE – Wilmington DE) essayist, health activist, social reformer, Christmas Seals founder.

Cynthia Westover Alden (31 May 1862 – 08 Jan 1931 | Afton IA – Brooklyn NY) poet, author, editor, teacher, journalist, civil servant, philanthropist, pen name: Kate Kensington, invented NYC street-cleaners’ cart, founder / president-general of the International Sunshine Society to house / educate blind babies / children / elderly.

Kathlyn Williams Eyton (31 May 1888 – 23 Sep 1960 | Butte MT – Hollywood CA) actress, screenwriter, social philanthropist. 

03 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Laura Matilda Towne (03 May 1825 – 22 Feb 1901 | Pittsburgh PA – St Helena Island SC ) educator, abolitionist, first freedmen’s school founder.

Anne Etheridge Hooks (03 May 1839 – 23 Jan 1913 | Detroit MI – Georgetown VA) aka Gentle Annie, Civil War Union nurse / vivandiere, one of two women to receive Kearny Cross.

George Madden Martin (03 May 1866 – 30 Nov 1946 | Louisville KY – Louisville KY) novelist, social reform / civil rights / prohibition activist, Commission on Interracial Co-operation charter member, Association of Southern Women for Prevention of Lynching leader / advocate.

Angel De Cora (03 May 1871 – 06 Feb 1919 | Thurston NE – Northampton MA) Winnebago teacher, painter, illustrator, Native American rights activist, aka Hinook-Mahiwi-Kalinaka [Fleecy Cloud Floating in Place].

Maud O’Farrell Swartz (03 May 1879 – 22 Feb 1937 | County Kildare IE – Brooklyn NY) Irish-American labor activist, president of Women’s Trade Union League [1922 to 1926], Secretary of the NY State Department of Labor under Industrial Commissioner Frances Perkins, first woman and first trade unionist to hold that position.

01 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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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.

18 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary [Katherine] Baptist Russell (18 Apr 1829 – 06 Aug 1898 | Bewry IE – San Francsico CA) educator, Sister of Mercy, religious activist, founded home for infirm.

Marion Foster Welch (18 Apr 1851 – 09 Jul 1935 | Pittsburgh PA – Pittsburgh PA) pianist, composer, lecturer, piano teacher, curator of Stephen Foster Memorial.

Clara Elsene Peck Williams (18 Apr 1883 – 24 Feb 1968 | Allegan MI – Gettysburg PA) painter, etcher, illustrator, comics artist, watercolorist.

Edna Hall Scott Kump (18 Apr 1887 – 19 Jan 1957 | Elkins WV – Elkins WV) gardener, First Lady of West Virginia.

Lucile McVey Drew (18 Apr 1890 – 03 Nov 1925 | Sedalia MO – Los Angeles CA) actress, knitter, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter, aka Jane Morrow, Mrs. Sidney Drew.

07 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Henrietta de Beaulieu Dering Johnston (07 Mar 1670 – 09 Mar 1729 | Dublin IE – Charleston SC) pastelist, noted as first professional woman artist in America.

Rebecca Hammond Laird (07 Mar 1772 – 28 Sep 1855 | New Bedford MA – Madison IN) poet, teacher, aka the first poet in Indiana.

Elizabeth [Ebe] Manning Hawthorne (07 Mar 1802 – 01 Jan 1883 | Salem MA – Montserrat MA) author, sister of / coauthor with Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Mary Eleanor Brackenridge (07 Mar 1837 – 14 Feb 1924 | Warrick County IN – San Antonio TX) clubwoman, women’s rights activist, clubwoman philanthropist, co-founded Woman’s Club of San Antonio, first female to sit on any Texas university governing board, one of three women on first board of regents at Texas Woman’s University [photos © Texas Woman’s University].

Louise Whitfield Carnegie (07 Mar 1857 – 24 Jun 1946 | New York NY – New York NY) philanthropist.

10 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sally Foster Otis (10 Jan 1770 – 06 Sep 1838 | Boston MA – Boston MA) hostess, folk figure, Francophile, aka Queen of Boston Society.

Louisa Lane Drew (10 Jan 1820 – 31 Aug 1897 | London UK – Larchmont NY) British-American stage actress, theater owner, theatrical family matriarch.

Larcena Ann Pennington Page Scott (10 Jan 1837 – 31 Mar 1913 | Nashville TN – Tucson AZ) pioneer, Western folk heroine, Indian kidnap survivor.

Manie Payne Ferguson (10 Jan 1850 – 08 Jun 1932 | Carlow IE – Los Angeles CA) hymnist, evangelist, social activist, co-founded Peniel Mission, American Holiness Movement pioneer leader.

Mary Amelia Ingalls (10 Jan 1865 – 17 Oct 1928 | Pepin WI – De Smet SD) blind, folk / literary family figure, one of sisters of Little House on the Prairie.