29 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (29 Mar 1831 – 10 Mar 1919 | Ulverston UK – Queens NY) English-American novelist, short story writer.

Augusta Louise Pierce Tabor (29 Mar 1833 – 30 Jan 1895 | Augusta ME – Pasadena CA) folk figure, social activist, mining entrepreneur / millionaire.

Isabella Thoburn (29 Mar 1840 – 01 Sep 1901 | St Clairsville OH – Lucknow IN) educator, Methodist Episcopal missionary, high school / women’s college founder in India.

Frances Wisebart Jacobs (29 Mar 1843 – 03 Nov 1892 | Harrodsburg KY – Denver CO) philanthropist, school teacher, founded United Way, social / community activist, founded Denver’s Jewish Hospital Association, aka Denver’s Mother of Charities.

Lou Henry Hoover (29 Mar 1874 – 07 Jan 1944 | Waterloo IA – New York NY) linguist, scholar, translator, public speaker, Girl Scout enthusiast / supporter, US Presidential First Lady, first First Lady to speak fluent Chinese, first First Lady to offer regular national radio broadcasts.

28 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Rhoda Holmes Nicholls (28 Mar 1854 – 07 Sep 1930 | Coventry UK – Stamford CT) English-American, artist, writer, art instructor, oil / watercolor painter.

Minnie Mancelona [Tip] Andress Pratt (28 Mar 1869 – 12 Nov 1962 | Missouri US – Petoskey MI) teacher, namesake of Mancelona MI, early pioneer settler family member.

Grace Gassette (28 Mar 1871 – 1955 | Chicago IL – Woodstock VT) painter, author, sculptor, WWI Honoree, amputee prosthetic / surgical tool inventor, Chicago Women’s Athletic Club founder, aka The Woman Who Remakes Broken Soldiers, American Ambulance Hospital in Paris surgical department organizer.

Anne Douglas Sedgwick (28 Mar 1873 – 19 Jul 1935 | Englewood NJ – Hampstead UK) American-British novelist.

Clara Lemlich Shavelson (28 Mar 1886 – 12 Jul 1982 | Gorodok UA – Los Angeles CA) suffragist, Communist, revolutionary, garment worker, labor organizer, peace / community activist, co-founded ILGWU [International Ladies Garment Workers Union], co-founded UCWW [United Council of Working-Class Women, which became Progressive Women’s Council].

15 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Harriet [Hattie] E. Wilson (15 Mar 1825 – 28 Jun 1900 | Milford NH – Quincy MA) Spiritualist, public speaker, housekeeper, first recognized female African-American novelist.

Alice Cunningham Fletcher (15 Mar 1838 – 06 Apr 1923 | Havana CU – Washington DC) author, sketch artist, ethnologist, social scientist, anthropologist.

Edith Maud Eaton (15 Mar 1865 – 07 Apr 1914 | Macclesfield UK – Montreal QC) journalist, aka Sui Sin Far, short fiction writer, British-Chinese-Canadian.

Mary Chase Perry Stratton (15 Mar 1867 – 15 Apr 1961 | Hancock MI – Detroit MI) ceramic artist, Pewabic Pottery co-founder, Arts and Crafts Movement member.

Henrietta [Hattie] Kanengeiser Carnegie (15 Mar 1886 – 22 Feb 1956 | Vienna AT – New York NY) milliner, immigrant, entrepreneur, fashion designer / doyenne.

06 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anna Claypoole Peale (06 Mar 1791 – 25 Dec 1878 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) portrait miniaturist, still life painter.

Sarah Knox [Knoxie] Davis (06 Mar 1814 – 15 Sep 1835 | Vincennes IN – Saint Francisville LA) Confederate folk / political family figure.

Martha Burton Woodhead Williamson (06 Mar 1843 – 18 Mar 1922 | Rothwell UK – Los Angeles CA) editor, journalist, malacologist, WCTU member, letter correspondent, discovered / created names for 11 new mollusks, president of Southern California Press Club, president of Historical Society of Southern California, founding member of American Association of Conchologists.

Carrie Belle Kearney (06 Mar 1863 – 27 Feb 1939 | Flora MS – Jackson MS) author, activist, novelist, legislator.

Kathleen [Kitty] Biggar Eaton Cannell (06 Mar 1891 – 23 May 1974 | Boston MA – Boston MA) dancer, author, aka Rihani, expatriate, ‘static dance’ innovator, dance / fashion critic and correspondent, WWII foreign correspondent, autobiographical author.

02 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Eleanor Bayliss Royce (02 Mar 1819 – 23 Nov 1891 | Stratford-upon-Avon UK – Santa Rosa CA) diarist, author, pioneer, memoirist.

Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (02 Mar 1831 – 26 Jun 1885 | Erie PA – Ho-Ho-Kus NJ) mystery writer, aka Seeley Regester.

Annie Eliot Trumbull (02 Mar 1857 – 22 Dec 1949 | Hartford CT – Hartford CT) poet, author, playwright.

Susanna Madora [Dora] Kinsey Salter (02 Mar 1860 – 17 Mar 1961 | Lamira OH – Norman OK) politician, prohibitionist, community activist, religious / political activist, member of Women’s Christian Temperance Union [WCTU], first female Mayor of Argonia KS, one of first women elected to any US political office.

Mabel Ward Cameron (02 Mar 1863 – 22 Feb 1923 | Boston MA – Hartford CT) author, biographer.

29 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ann Lee (29 Feb 1736 – 08 Sep 1784 | Manchester UK – Watervliet NY) aka Mother Ann Lee, Ann Elizabeth Lees, leader of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, or Shakers.

Emmeline Blanche Woodward Harris Whitney Wells (29 Feb 1828 – 25 Apr 1921 | Petersham MA – Salt Lake City UT) poet, editor, diarist, journalist, women’s rights activist, fifth Relief Society General President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints [LDS Church].

Augusta Savage (29 Feb 1892 – 27 Mar 1962 | Green Cove Springs FL – New York NY) African-American sculptor, associated with Harlem Renaissance, born Augusta Christine Fells.

25 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Idawalley [Ida] Zorada Lewis-Wilson (25 Feb 1842 – 25 Oct 1911 | Newport RI – Newport RI) folk figure, lighthouse keeper, heroic lifesaver.

Anna Fisher Beiler (25 Feb 1848 – 01 Apr 1904 | Newcastle-upon-Tyne UK – Buffalo NY) lecturer, missionary, newspaper editor, philanthropist, temperance activist, Methodist Episcopal Secretary of the Bureau for District of Alaska.

Margaret Howell Davis Hayes (25 Feb 1855 – 18 Jul 1909 | Washington DC – Colorado Springs CO) Daughters of the Confederacy leader, Confederate political family member.

Daisie Adelle Davis (25 Feb 1904 – 31 May 1974 | Lizton IN – Palos Verdes Estates CA) author, nutritionist, cookbook writer, aka Jane Dunlap, LSD experimenter, natural food activist / advocate.

Mary Coyle Chase (25 Feb 1906 – 20 Oct 1981 | Denver CO – Denver CO) journalist, playwright, screenwriter, children’s novelist, 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, born Mary Agnes McDonough Coyle.

19 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (19 Feb 1830 – 15 Feb 1912 | Hitesburg VA – Bloomfield NJ) author, memoirist, novelist, journal writer, fundraiser, preservationist, Civil War historian, social / community / women and children’s activist.

Elizabeth Ann Claridge McCune (19 Feb 1852 – 01 Jan 1924 | Bedfordshire UK – Salt Lake City UT) civic activist, genealogy lecturer, pioneering unofficial female Mormon missionary, advocated LDS allow single women as missionaries [1898].

Annie Nathan Meyer (19 Feb 1867 – 23 Sep 1951 | New York NY – New York NY) author, playwright, Barnard College founder, women’s educational rights activist / advocate.

Lugenia Burns Hope (19 Feb 1871 – 14 Aug 1947 | St Louis MO – Nashville TN) social reformer, civil rights activist, African-American, community organizer, Atlanta Neighborhood Union founder / director.

Mae Elizabeth [Hope] Hampton (19 Feb 1897 – 23 Jan 1982 | Houston TX – New York NY) actress, producer, aspiring opera singer.

18 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Harriet Farley Dunlevy (18 Feb 1817 – 12 Nov 1907 | Claremont NH – New York NY) editor, writer, social / cultural activist, managed ‘Lowell Offering’ literary magazine published by women textile mill workers.

Ida Husted Harper (18 Feb 1851 – 14 Mar 1931 | Franklin County IN – Washington DC) author, editor, teacher, columnist, journalist, suffragist.

Henrietta Christian Wright (18 Feb 1854 – 13 Dec 1899 | Old Bridge Township NJ – Old Bridge Township NJ) children’s science / history / literature author.

Annie Heloise Abel-Henderson (18 Feb 1873 – 14 Mar 1947 | Fernhurst UK – Aberdeen WA) author, historian, professor, book reviewer.

Mary Williams [Molly] Dewson (18 Feb 1874 – 01 Oct 1962 | Quincy MA – Castine ME) feminist, lesbian, social reformer, political activist.

14 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Frances [Fanny] Keeling Valentine Allan (14 Feb 1784 – 28 Feb 1829 | Richmond VA – Richmond VA) literary folk figure, E. A. Poe’s foster-mother / first teacher, taught Poe to read and write, gave Poe his middle name Allan.

Sarah Louise Browning Knox-Goodrich (14 Feb 1825 – 30 Oct 1903 | Culpeper VA – San Jose CA) suffragist, political / women’s rights activist, commissioned Knox-Goodrich Building, Goodrich quarry provided stone for Stanford University construction.

Anna Howard Shaw (14 Feb 1847 – 02 Jul 1919 | Newcastle-upon-Tyne UK – Moylan PA) orator, physician, suffragist, social reformer, women’s leader, autobiographical author, one of first ordained American female Methodist ministers.

Sallie Florence Casey Thayer (14 Feb 1856 – 10 Sep 1925 | Covington KY – San Diego CA) art collector / benefactor, donated her collections to Spencer Art Museum in Lawrence KS.

Virginia Frazer Boyle (14 Feb 1863 – 13 Dec 1938 | Chattanooga TN – Memphis TN) poet, author.