18 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Phoebe Yates Levy Pember (18 Aug 1823 – 04 Mar 1913 | Charleston SC – Pittsburgh PA) memoirist, medical pioneer, Civil War nurse, Confederate hospital administrator.

Hannah E. Barker Taylor (18 Aug 1835 – unknown | Fredericton NB – Pasadena CA) poet, singer, hymnist, English-Native American-Canadian, Woman’s Christian Temperance Union member.

Selma Kronold (18 Aug 1861 – 09 Oct 1920 | Krakow PL – New York NY) pianist, operatic soprano, music advocate, founded Catholic Oratorio Society of New York.

Jemima [Mina] MacKenzie (18 Aug 1872 – 27 Jan 1957 | Waterside NS – Pictou NS) humanitarian, medical missionary to India, founded Broadwell Christian Hospital and orphanage for children in India, adopted 44 children [21 reached adulthood].

Katherine Emilie Bashford (18 Aug 1885 – 03 Jun 1953 | Prescott AZ – Los Angeles CA) author, public and private gardens landscape architect, co-founder / first female president of southern California chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects [ASLA].

05 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Hannah Clark Johnston Bailey (05 Jul 1839 – 23 Oct 1923 | Cornwall-on-Hudson NY – Portland ME) writer, lecturer, publisher, peace activist, pamphleteer, National Council of Women treasurer, Maine Women’s Suffrage Association president.

Frances Christine Tiernan (05 Jul 1846 – 24 Mar 1920 | Salisbury NC – Salisbury NC) author, novelist, aka Christian Reid.

Mary Augusta Jordan (05 Jul 1855 – 14 Apr 1941 | Ironton OH – New Haven CT) editor, author, lecturer, librarian, professor.

Wanda Landowska (05 Jul 1879 – 16 Aug 1959 | Warsaw PO – Lakeville CT) author, harpsichordist, musicologist, piano pedagogue, performing artist, first person to record Bach’s Goldberg Variations [1933].

Marjorie Stinson (05 Jul 1895 – 15 Apr 1975 | Fort Payne AL – Washington DC) aviation pioneer, aeronautical draftswoman, ninth female licensed US pilot, aviation training school co-owner / instructor, aka The Flying Schoolgirl.

13 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ernestine Louise Susmond Polowsky Rose (13 Jan 1810 – 04 Aug 1892 | Piotrków Trybunalski PL – Brighton UK) American author, atheist, feminist, lecturer, abolitionist, women’s rights / political activist, aka The Queen of the Platform, first US female petitioner for married women’s property rights.

Sarah Horton Cockrell (13 Jan 1819 – 26 Apr 1892 | Virginia US – Dallas TX) pioneer, philanthropist, businesswoman, one of first Texas millionaires, City of Dallas benefactor.

Ethelinda [Ethel Lynn] Eliot Beers (13 Jan 1827 – 11 Oct 1879 | Goshen NY – Orange NJ) US Civil War poet.

Lilla Cabot Perry (13 Jan 1848 – 28 Feb 1933 | Boston MA – Hancock NH) poet, artist, painter, translator, self-taught till age of 36.

Charlotte E. Ray (13 Jan 1850 – 04 Jan 1911 | New York NY – Woodside NY) teacher, suffragist, first practicing female African-American lawyer.