28 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (28 Sep 1821 – 21 Apr 1906 | Kailua-Kona HI – Honolulu HI) painter, sketch artist

Caroline Earle White (28 Sep 1833 – 07 Sep 1916 | Philadelphia PA – Nantucket MA) author, suffragist, travel writer, short fiction writer, animal rights activist, founded Women’s Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [WPSPCA]

Frances Elizabeth Willard (28 Sep 1839 – 17 Feb 1898 | Churchville NY – New York NY) author, orator, pacifist, educator, suffragist, feminist, visionary, temperance reform leader

Kate Douglas Wiggin (28 Sep 1856 – 24 Aug 1923 | Philadelphia PA – Harrow UK) children’s author, children’s educational advocate, kindergarten founder / teacher trainer

Sister Mary Joseph (28 Sep 1883 – 05 Jun 1967 | Peoria IL – Webster Groves MO) nun, academic, librarian, born Sherer, founder / director Gallery of Living Catholic Authors at Webster College [now Webster University] in Webster Goves MO

26 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Adelaide Johnson (26 Sep 1859 – 10 Nov 1955 | Plymouth IL – Washington DC) artist, sculptor, suffragist.

Lucy Biddle Lewis (26 Sep 1861 – 14 Jan 1941 | Sharon Hill PA – Yeadon PA) Quaker, pacifist, social activist, co-founder of American Friends Service Committee [1917], co-founder and President of WILPF [1922-24].

Eleanor Gates (26 Sep 1874 – 07 Mar 1951 | Shakopee MN – Los Angeles CA) novelist, playwright, scriptwriter.

Mary Elisabeth Dreier (26 Sep 1875 – 15 Aug 1963 | Brooklyn NY – Bar Harbor ME) novelist, biographer, social reformer, women’s workers’ rights activist.

Edith Abbott (26 Sep 1876 – 28 Jul 1957 | Grand Island NE – Grand Island NE) author, educator, economist, social worker.

19 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Rosetta Sherwood Hall (19 Sep 1865 – 05 Apr 1951 | Liberty NY – Ocean Grove NJ) author, doctor, educator, missionary, mission school founder.

Nellie Augusta Knopf (19 Sep 1875 – 30 Apr 1962 | Chicago IL – Lansing MI) artist, landscape / still life painter.

Vera Charlotte Scott Cushman (19 Sep 1876 – 01 Feb 1946 | Ottawa IL – Savannah GA) social worker, YWCA pioneer, prolific fundraiser, WWI soldier support activist.

Mabel Vernon (19 Sep 1883 – 02 Sep 1975 | Wilmington DE – Washington DC) Quaker, pacifist, suffragist leader, member of American Woman Suffrage Association.

Sarah Louise [Sadie] Delany (19 Sep 1889 – 25 Jan 1999 | Lynch Station VA – Mount Vernon NY) author, teacher, memoirist.

09 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Mapps Douglass (09 Sep 1806 – 08 Sep 1882 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) African-American artist, author, educator, abolitionist, public lecturer, friendship letter correspondent / illustrator.

Mary Greenhow Lee (09 Sep 1819 – 25 May 1907 | Richmond VA – Baltimore MD) author, Civil War diarist, Confederate activist, known for despising / snubbing Union soldiers and Northerners.

Lucy Jane Rider Meyer (09 Sep 1849 – 16 Mar 1922 | New Haven VT – Chicago IL) writer, editor, hymnist, educator, social worker, philanthropist, Deaconess leader, chemistry professor.

Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin (09 Sep 1850 – 21 Jun 1930 | Brooklyn NY – Nantucket MA) artist, educator, New Woman, philanthropist, first American female MFA, first female student Hague Academy of Fine Arts, founded co-ed trade / crafts school on Nantucket.

Mary Austin (09 Sep 1868 – 13 Aug 1934 | Carlinville IL – Santa Fe NM) feminist, naturalist, mystic, author, “woman of genius,” leading literary figure of her time.

02 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lucretia Peabody Hale (02 Sep 1820 – 12 Jun 1900 | Boston MA – Belmont MA) editor, novelist, journalist, nonfiction author.

Anne Whitney (02 Sep 1821 – 23 Jan 1915 | Watertown MA – Boston MA) poet, sculptor.

Lili’uokalani (02 Sep 1838 – 11 Nov 1917 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) author, songwriter, queen regnant, last ruling Hawaiian monarch.

Emma Gilson Wallace (02 Sep 1841 – 07 Jun 1911 | La Moille IL – Chicago IL) philanthropist, reform / charitable activist, president of both National and Illinois Women’s Relief Corps.

Josephine Emma Curtis Hopkins (02 Sep 1849 – 08 Apr 1925 | Killingly CT – Killingly CT) author, mystic, feminist, teacher, theologian, spiritual prophet, New Thought leader / organizer.

24 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Ann White Johnson (24 Aug 1808 – 05 May 1872 | Westmoreland NH – New York NY) abolitionist, lecturer on physiology, matron of Sing Sing Prison, prison reform advocate, founding member of New England Non-Resistance Society.

Eliza Jane Trimble Thompson (24 Aug 1816 – 03 Nov 1905 | Hillsboro OH – Hillsboro OH) aka Mother Thompson, non-violent temperance Visitation Bands leader, founded Ohio Women’s Crusade Against Alcohol [basis for Women’s Christian Temperance Union].

Marie Brose Tepe Leonard (24 Aug 1834 – 14 May 1901 | Bretagne FR – Pittsburgh PA) Civil War vivandière, aka Fearless French Mary, wounded / survived war but died by suicide years later.

Laura Drake Gill (24 Aug 1860 – 03 Feb 1926 | Chesterville ME – Berea KY) professor, administrator, college president, educational reformer.

Mary Arizona [Zonia] Baber (24 Aug 1862 – 10 Jan 1956 | Clark IL – Chicago IL) geologist, feminist, anti-racist, geographer, anti-imperialist, textbook author, desk designer, geography instruction innovator, peace monument historian, co-founded Geography Society of Chicago, member of WILPF [Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

19 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Ellen Pleasant (19 Aug 1817 – 04 Jan 1904 | Philadelphia PA – San Francisco CA) abolitionist, social activist, entrepreneur, philanthropist, aka Mammy Pleasant, Mother of Human Rights in California.

Antoinette B. Hollister (19 Aug 1863 – 13 Jun 1943 | Chicago IL – Tarpon Springs FL) painter, professor, writer / lecturer about art for children.

Elsie Ferguson (19 Aug 1883 – 15 Nov 1961 | New York NY – New London CT) author, actress, aka The Aristocrat of the Silent Screen.

Grace Hutchins (19 Aug 1885 – 15 Jul 1969 | Boston MA – New York NY) author, activist, communist, pamphleteer, radical labor economist.

Maija Grotell (19 Aug 1899 – 06 Dec 1973 | Helsinki FI – Pontiac MI) author, ceramicist, ceramics teacher, aka The Mother of American Ceramics.

14 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Charlotte Fowler Wells (14 Aug 1814 – 04 Jun 1901 | Cohocton NY – West Orange NJ) author, phrenologist, journal publisher.

May Dickson Exall (14 Aug 1859 – 28 Sep 1936 | McKinney TX – Dallas TX) civic leader, clubwoman, arts activist, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts co-founder.

Florence Pullman Lowden (14 Aug 1868 – 05 Jul 1937 | Chicago IL – Chicago IL) travel writer, philanthropist, First Lady of Illinois.

Vivian Louise Aunspaugh (14 Aug 1869 – 09 Mar 1960 | Bedford VA – Dallas TX) painter, art editor, art teacher, art school founder.

Leila Edna Andrews (14 Aug 1876 – 28 Apr 1954 | North Manchester IN – Oklahoma City OK) author, pediatrician, pediatrics professor, hematologist, one of first two female members of American College of Physicians [ACP].

08 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Esther Hobart Morris (08 Aug 1814 – 03 Apr 1902 | Tioga NY – Cheyenne WY) milliner, aka Mrs. Slack, women’s rights activist, first female US Judge / Justice of the Peace in Wyoming.

Julia Ann Wilbur (08 Aug 1815 – 06 Jun 1895 | Milan NY – Washington DC) nurse, Quaker, suffragist, abolitionist, Civil War diarist, member / secretary Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society.

Mary Blair Moody (08 Aug 1837 – 18 Aug 1919 | Castle Creek NY – New Haven CT) author, physician, women’s rights activist, one of first female physicians in New Haven CT.

Cora Bussey Hillis (08 Aug 1858 – 12 Aug 1924 | Bloomfield IA – St Cloud MN) educator, clubwoman, child welfare advocate.

Ruth VanSickle Ford (08 Aug 1897 – 18 Apr 1989 | Aurora IL – Aurora IL) artist, art instructor, social realist painter, co-founded Chicago Women’s Salon, owned Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, first IL female member of American Watercolor Society [1954], first female member of Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art [1960].

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.