05 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Edith Dean Painter (05 Aug 1821 – 20 Jul 1899 | New Garden OH – Pasadena CA) Quaker, farmer, abolitionist, Underground Railroad conductor.

Clara Dorothy Bewick Colby (05 Aug 1846 – 07 Sep 1916 | Cheltenham UK – Palo Alto CA) writer, editor, teacher, suffragist, public speaker, equal rights activist, public library founder, newspaper founder / publisher.

Mary Ellen Richmond (05 Aug 1861 – 12 Sept 1928 | Belleville IL – New York NY) social work pioneer, Unitarian, first Social Caseworker, aka Mother of Professional Social Work, [with Jane Addams] founded professional social case work.

Mary Ritter Beard (05 Aug 1876 – 14 Aug 1958 | Indianapolis IN – Phoenix AZ) author, archivist, historian, memoirist, suffragist, woman’s historian, women’s rights activist.

Ruth Wheeler (05 Aug 1877 – 29 Sep 1948 | Plains PA – Poughkeepsie NY) author, chemist, nutritionist, professor, developed first college curriculum for study of dietetics and nutrition.

04 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Susanna Wright (04 Aug 1697 – 01 Dec 1784 | Lancashire UK – Wright’s Ferry PA) poet, pundit, author, pioneer, translator, landowner, entrepreneur, multi-linguist, first American female silk farmer / producer / exporter.

Clarissa C. Bryan Cook (04 Aug 1811 – 19 Feb 1879 | Sidney NY – Davenport IA) philanthropist, civic / religious / charitable activist, founded Clarissa Cook Library and Clarissa C. Cook Home for the Friendless [later Clarissa C. Cook Retirement Home].

Florence Newell Barbour (04 Aug 1866 – 24 Jul 1946 | Providence RI – Providence RI) pianist, lyricist, musician, composer.

Emily Helen Butterfield (04 Aug 1884 – 22 Mar 1958 | Algonac MI – Neebish Island MI) artist, editor, author, architect, feminist activist, children’s book writer, first licensed female architect in Michigan, pen-and-ink / watercolor illustrator.

Barbara Nachtrieb Grimes Armstrong (04 Aug 1890 – 18 Jan 1976 | San Francisco CA – Oakland CA) author, legal scholar, law professor, social insurance advocate.

26 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lucy Newhall Danforth Colman (26 Jul 1817 – 18 Jan 1906 | Sturbridge MA – Syracuse NY) author, teacher, columnist, abolitionist, Free Thought writer, women’s rights activist.

Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer (26 Jul 1822 – 04 Jan 1904 | London UK – Baltimore MD) writer, historian, translator.

Maria Fearing (26 Jul 1838 – 1937 | Gainesville AL – Sumter AL) educator, missionary, children’s advocate, freed African-American slave.

Abigail May Alcott Nieriker (26 Jul 1840 – 29 Dec 1879 | Concord MA – Paris FR) artist, art teacher, literary family figure, sister of Louisa May Alcott, aka Abba and Abby.

Tatzumbie DuPea (26 Jul 1849 – 26 Feb 1970 | Lone Pine CA – Los Angeles CA) aka Beautiful Star, Paiute writer / actress / activist / spokesperson, died at age 121.

24 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Frances [Fanny] Flora Bond Palmer (24 Jul 1812 – 20 Aug 1876 | Leicester UK – Brooklyn NY) artist, teacher, entrepreneur, lithographer, lithographic innovator, Currier & Ives printmaker [though often not credited or recognized as original artist and designer].

Mary Margaret Bartelme (24 Jul 1866 – 25 Jul 1954 | Chicago IL – Carmel CA) judge, author, attorney, girls and women’s rights activist / advocate / educator.

Alice Jane [Jean] Chandler Webster (24 Jul 1876 – 11 Jun 1916 | Fredonia NY – New York NY) novelist, femininst, journalist, playwright, suffragist, social reformer, political activist, short fiction writer, girls’ school teacher, Settlement House worker, portrayed strong female protagonists.

Eleanor Manning O’Connor (24 Jul 1884 – 12 Jul 1973 | Lynn MA – Mexico City MX) architect, educator, watercolorist, public housing activist, Special Instructor of Architecture and Housing.

Agnes May Meyer Driscoll (24 Jul 1889 – 16 Sep 1971 | Genesco IL – Fairfax VA) aka Miss Aggie or Madame X, high school math teacher, military academy music director, WW I / WW II US Navy cryptanalyst, member Armed Forces Security Agency.

20 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah [Sally] Wister (20 Jul 1761 – 21 Apr 1804 | Philadelphia PA – Germantown PA) diarist, Quaker, journal writer.

Laura Keene (20 Jul 1826 – 04 Nov 1873 | Winchester UK – Montclair NJ) actress, innovator, impresario, theater manager, born Mary Frances Moss.

Philomène Belliveau (20 Jul 1854 – 17 Mar 1940 | Memramcook NB – Rimouski QC) Acadian artist, portrait painter.

Hortense Sparks Ward (20 Jul 1872 – 05 Dec 1944 | Matagorda TX – Houston TX) writer, lawyer, suffragist, pamphleteer, women’s rights activist, first female attorney admitted to Texas bar, first female registered voter in Harris County, Special Chief Justice of first woman’s Appellate Court of Texas.

Anne Ryan McFadden (20 Jul 1889 – 18 Apr 1954 | Hoboken NJ – Morristown NJ) artist, painter, collagist, printmaker.

18 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jane Lampton Clemens (18 Jun 1803 – 27 Oct 1890 | Columbia KY – Keokuk IA) literary family figure, mother of Samuel Clemens, portrayed as Aunt Polly in Tom Sawyer.

Frances [Fanny] Sargent Locke Osgood (18 Jun 1811 – 12 May 1850 | Boston MA – New York NY) poet, author, letter correspondent.

Helen Hinsdale Rich (18 Jun 1827 – 04 Sep 1914 | Antwerp NY – St. Joseph MO) poet, lecturer, suffragist, women’s rights activist, temperance worker, short fiction writer, aka Poet of the Adirondacks, first woman to stand for woman suffrage in St. Lawrence County NY.

Laura Adeline Muntz Lyall (18 Jun 1860 – 09 Dec 1930 | Radford UK – Toronto ON) visual artist, Canadian Impressionst, known for portraits of mothers and children.

Carolyn Wells (18 Jun 1862 – 26 Mar 1942 | Rahway NJ – New York NY) poet, author.

11 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anne Newport Royall (11 Jun 1769 – 01 Oct 1854 | Baltimore MD – Washington DC) writer, publisher, reformer, journalist, possibly first professional female journalist in America.

Caroline Le Gresley LeSueur (11 Jun 1814 – 01 Oct 1898 | Jersey, Channel Islands – St Johns AZ) Mormon, farmer, pioneer, settler, co-founder of St. Johns, Arizona.

Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens (11 Jun 1832 – 08 Aug 1899 | La Grange TN – Edgefield SC) author, socialite, flag seamstress, Confederate icon, aka Queen of the Confederacy.

Mary Leslie (11 Jun 1842 – 01 Mar 1920 | UK – Toronto ON) artist, art teacher, columnist for McLure Syndicate, conducted Leslie’s College for Women, pen names: J.T.J., James Thomas Jones.

Olivia America Davidson Washington (11 Jun 1854 – 09 May 1889 | Mercer WV – Boston MA) teacher, Tuskegee Institute co-founder.

12 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sister Mary Irene FitzGibbon (12 May 1823 – 14 Aug 1896 | London UK – New York NY) teacher, Sister of Charity, founding director New York Foundling Hospital, born Catherine Rosamund FitzGibbon.

Sarah Elizabeth Van der Vort Emery (12 May 1838 – 10 Oct 1895 | Phelps NY – Lansing MI) editor, writer, speaker, suffragist, Universalist, Populist campaigner, Women’s Temperance Union leader.

Matilda Coxe Evans Stevenson (12 May 1849 – 24 Jun 1915 | San Augine TX – Oxon Hill MD) author, ethnologist, Zuni expert / researcher, Women’s Anthropological Society of America president, aka Tilly E. Stevenson.

Louise Phelps Kellogg (12 May 1862 – 11 Jul 1942 | Milwaukee WI – Madison WI) writer, educator, historian.

Ann Bassett (12 May 1878 – 08 May 1956 | Moffat County CO – Leeds UT) folk figure, rancher, cattle rustler, Sundance Kid cohort, Wild Bunch member, alias Etta Place, aka Queen Ann.

07 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Juliet Ann Opie Hopkins (07 May 1818 – 09 Mar 1890 | Jefferson County WV – Washington DC) US Civil War Confederate nurse, aka Florence Nightingale of the South.

Harriet Starr Cannon (07 May 1823 – 29 Mar 1896 | Charleston SC – Peekskill NY) religious, school founder, children’s advocate, spiritual leader / organizer, founded Episcopalian Sisterhood of St Mary.

Euphemia Vale Blake (07 May 1824 – 21 Oct 1904 | Hastings UK – Brooklyn NY) critic, author, editor, journalist, British-born American.

Varina Banks Howell Davis (07 May 1826 – 16 Oct 1906 | Natchez MS – New York NY) writer, memoirist, columnist, Confederate States First Lady, post-war reconciliation activist.

Margaret Elizabeth [Lizzie] Crozier French (07 May 1851 – 14 May 1926 | Knoxville TN – Washington DC) educator, suffragist, social reform activist.

06 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jane McManus Cazneau (06 Apr 1807 – 12 Dec 1878 | Brunswick NY – at sea near Dominican Republic) journalist, publicist, aka Cora Montgomery.

Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney (06 Apr 1823 – 01 Nov 1908 | Lancaster MA – Galesburg IL) poet, editor, author, educator, pen names: Julia, Minnie May, Frank Fisher, Sadie Sensible, Minister’s Wife, Rev. Peter Benson’s Daughter.

Catherine [Kate] Boott Gannet Wells (06 Apr 1838 – 13 Dec 1911 | London UK – Boston MA) writer, reformer, philanthropist, anti-suffragist.

Martha Gallison Moore Avery (06 Apr 1851 – 08 Aug 1929 | Steuben ME – Medford MA) author, socialist, Catholic convert, anti-socialist / anti-suffrage activist.

Catherine Everit [Kate] Macy Ladd (06 apr 1863 – 27 aug 1945 | Manhattan NY – Far Hills NJ) philanthropist, founder of philanthropic foundation.