16 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

Isabelle Walton Lusk (16 Oct 1835 – 22 Jan 1933 | Old Town ME – Sacramento CA) memoirist, travel author, national traveler.


Lilian Leland Andrews (16 Oct 1857 – c. 1930 | New York NY – unknown) author, Freethinker, world traveler, travel writer, Liberal League lecturer.


Victoria Kaʻiulani Cleghorn (16 Oct 1875 – 06 Mar 1899 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) artist, princess, cultural ambassador, aka Victoria Kaʻiulani Kalaninuiahilapalapa Cleghorn.


Anna Elizabeth Keener (16 Oct 1895 – 22 Jul 1982 | Flagler CO – Santa Fe NM) artist, painter, author, WWI Navy yeoman.


Marguerite Luella Rawalt (16 Oct 1895 – 16 Dec 1989 | Prairie City IL – Corpus Christi TX) author, attorney, feminist, women’s rights activist.

23 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

Anne Elizabeth McDowell (23 Jun 1826 – 30 Sep 1901 | Smyrna DE – Drexel Hill PA) editor, journalist, publisher, founded Woman’s Advocate weekly newspaper, founded McDowell Free Library for Women for workers at Wanamaker’s Department Store.


Agnes Dean Abbat (23 Jun 1847 – 01 Jan 1917 | New York NY – New York NY) artist, teacher, watercolorist, floral still life / landscape / coastal scene painter, second women elected to the American Water Color Society.


Louise Howland King Cox (23 Jun 1865 – 11 Dec 1945 | San Francisco CA – Windham CT) woodcarver, photographer, stained glass artist, children’s portrait painter.


Mabel Rivers Landrum Torrey (23 Jun 1886 – 01 Apr 1974 | Sterling CO – Ames IA) sculptor, ceramicist, children’s figure specialist, commissioned public sculptor.


Sarah Van Hoosen Jones (23 Jun 1892 – 1972 | Stony Creek MI – Rochester MI) author, breeder, civic leader, genetic researcher, first US female PhD in Animal Genetics.

12 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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.

22 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

Olive Logan (22 Apr 1839 – 27 Apr 1909 | Elmira NY – Banstead UK) author, actress, lecturer, suffragist | Women.Bourne.Works © Susan.Powers.Bourne


Ursula Newell Gestefeld (22 Apr 1845 – 22 Oct 1921 | Augusta ME – Chicago IL) Christian Scientist, New Thought author, women’s press founder.


Henrietta McCormick Goodhart (22 Apr 1857 – 1932 | Chicago IL – Langley Park MD) heiress, memoirist, managed McCormick-Goodhart Mansion on Langley Park Estate.


Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (22 Apr 1873 – 21 Nov 1945 | Richmond VA – Richmond VA) poet, novelist, short story writer, Pulitzer Prize laureate, autobiographical author.


Laura Gilpin (22 Apr 1891 – 30 Nov 1979 | Austin Bluffs CO – Santa Fe NM) Pictorialist, photographer, focus on images of Native Americans [particularly Navajo and Pueblo] and Southwestern landscapes.

25 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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.