12 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lilian Jeannette Rice (12 Jun 1889 – 22 Dec 1938 | National City CA – Rancho Santa Fe CA) pioneering female eco-conscious architect.

Lela Campbell Murray (12 Jun 1890 – 18 Mar 1949 | Kentucky US – San Bernardino CA) social / civil rights activist, pioneering African-American dude ranch co-owner / manager.

Djuna Barnes (12 Jun 1892 – 18 Jun 1982 | Cornwall-on-Hudson NY – New York NY) poet, writer, journalist, illustrator, memoirist, playwright, sketch artist.

Viola Blanche Evans Dean (12 Jun 1892 – 31 May 1974 | Clay County AL – Goodwater AL) teacher, author, naturalist, illustrator, conservationist.

Anni Albers (12 Jun 1899 – 09 May 1994 | Berlin DEU – Orange CT) author, weaver, Bauhaus graduate, printmaker, mixed media artist, German-American textile artist, born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann, founded Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

03 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Martha Jane Knowlton Coray (03 jun 1821 – 14 dec 1881 | Covington KY – Provo UT) educator, historian, preservationist, sole female on first Board of Trustees for Brigham Young Academy.

Charcila Cecilia Moore Morse (03 Jun 1838 – 13 Jun 1926 | Anahuac TX – Tampa FL) citrus farmer, pioneer educator, founded St. Anthony Catholic School [now the oldest parochial school in Florida].

Hannah Kent Schoff (03 Jun 1853 – 10 Dec 1940 | Upper Darby PA – Philadelphia PA) author, child welfare activist / worker.

Elinore Pruitt Rupert Stewart (03 Jun 1876 – 08 Oct 1933 | Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory – Rock Springs WY) author, homesteader, letter correspondent, aka the Woman Homesteader.

Edna Noble White (03 Jun 1879 – 04 May 1954 | Fairmount IL – Detroit MI) home economics educator, child development researcher, Merrill Palmer Institute first director.

22 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Charity Bryant (22 May 1777 – 06 Oct 1851 | North Bridgewater MA – Weybridge VT) poet, teacher, focus on acrostic poetry, Boston marriage partner with Sylvia Drake.

Gertrude Jane Hall Denny (22 May 1837 – 05 Aug 1933 | Ten Mile Run NJ – Portland OR) author, Whitman Massacre survivor, wife of US Consul-General to Shanghai, co-importer of first Chinese pheasants to US soil.

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (22 May 1844 – 14 Jun 1926 | Allegheny City PA – Château de Beaufresne FR) painter, printmaker, pioneering American Impressionist.

Bertha Honoré Potter Palmer (22 May 1849 – 05 May 1918 | Louisville KY – Osprey FL) art collector, clubwoman, philanthropist.

Lucy May Stanton (22 May 1875 – 19 Mar 1931 | Atlanta GA – Athens GA) watercolorist, miniature portrait artist, large-scale landscapes / still life painter.

14 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Minerva Parker Nichols (14 May 1862 – 17 Nov 1949 | Peoria IL – Westport CT) architect, first US female architect to establish independent professional practice.

Mathilde Georgine Schley (14 May 1864 – 20 Mar 1941 | Horicon WI – Milwaukee WI) artist, landscape painter, member Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors.

Alice Boughton (14 May 1866 – 21 Jun 1943 | Brooklyn NY – Brookhaven NY) Photo-Secessionist, portrait photographer, photography-as-art innovator.

Marian Osborne (14 May 1871 – 05 Sep 1931 | Montreal QC – Toronto ON) poet, author, dramatist.

Elizabeth [Lizzie] Beatrice Cooke Fouse (14 May 1875 – 22 Oct 1952 | Lexington KY – Lexington KY) teacher, African-American women’s rights activist, member National Association of Colored Women [NACW] and Kentucky Association of Colored Women [KACW].

04 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Elizabeth Surratt (04 May 1823 – 07 Jul 1865 | Waterloo MD – Washington DC) boarding house owner / operator, historical / political folk figure, tried as Lincoln assassination co-conspirator, first American female executed by hanging.

Julia Britton Hooks (04 May 1852 – 10 Mar 1942 | Frankfort KY – Memphis TN) pianist, social worker, civil rights leader, juvenile court officer, second female African-American US college graduate, founded Julia Hooks Cottage School and Julia Hooks School of Music.

Mary Ellis Peltz (04 May 1896 – 24 Oct 1981 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, editor, author, music / drama critic, founding editor Opera News magazine.

Joy Bright Hancock (04 May 1898 – 20 Aug 1986 | Wildwood NJ – Bethesda MD) pilot, WAVES activist, early female Naval officer, autobiographical author.

Bernice Mildred Goetz (04 May 1909 – 30 Dec 1958 | Cleveland OH – Brooklyn NY) poet, author, teacher, lecturer, explorer.

03 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Laura Matilda Towne (03 May 1825 – 22 Feb 1901 | Pittsburgh PA – St Helena Island SC ) educator, abolitionist, first freedmen’s school founder.

Anne Etheridge Hooks (03 May 1839 – 23 Jan 1913 | Detroit MI – Georgetown VA) aka Gentle Annie, Civil War Union nurse / vivandiere, one of two women to receive Kearny Cross.

George Madden Martin (03 May 1866 – 30 Nov 1946 | Louisville KY – Louisville KY) novelist, social reform / civil rights / prohibition activist, Commission on Interracial Co-operation charter member, Association of Southern Women for Prevention of Lynching leader / advocate.

Angel De Cora (03 May 1871 – 06 Feb 1919 | Thurston NE – Northampton MA) Winnebago teacher, painter, illustrator, Native American rights activist, aka Hinook-Mahiwi-Kalinaka [Fleecy Cloud Floating in Place].

Maud O’Farrell Swartz (03 May 1879 – 22 Feb 1937 | County Kildare IE – Brooklyn NY) Irish-American labor activist, president of Women’s Trade Union League [1922 to 1926], Secretary of the NY State Department of Labor under Industrial Commissioner Frances Perkins, first woman and first trade unionist to hold that position.

27 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Upton Ferrin (27 Apr 1810 – 11 Apr 1881 | South Danvers MA – Marblehead MA) pioneering suffragist, pamphleteer, public speaker.

Mary Elizabeth Croghan Schenley (27 Apr 1826 – 01 Nov 1903 | Louisville KY – London UK) heiress, Pittsburgh philanthropist, romantic scandal heroine.

Alice Morse Earle (27 Apr 1851 – 16 Feb 1911 | Worcester MA – Hempstead NY) author, pioneering social historian.

Alice Sarah Tyler (27 Apr 1859 – 18 Apr 1944 | Decatur IL – Decatur IL) editor, author, club woman, librarian, Carnegie library activist.

Mary Elliott Flanery (27 Apr 1867 – 19 Jul 1933 | Carter County KY – Cattlettsburg KY) suffragist, politician, journalist, columnist, social reformer, Daughters of Confederacy co-founder, women’s rights activist, first female elected to KY General Assembly and State legislature south of Mason–Dixon line.

16 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Ann Major Harris Fayerweather (16 Apr 1812 – 16 Nov 1878 | Norwich CT – Kingston RI) African-American activist, abolitionist, school integrationist.

Martha McClellan Brown (16 Apr 1838 – 31 Aug 1916 | Baltimore MD – Dayton OH) newspaper publisher, temperance activist, women’s college vice-president, Ohio Temperance leader.

Ida Elizabeth Smith Noyes (16 Apr 1853 – 05 Dec 1912 | Croton DE – Chicago IL) poet, speaker, club woman, member of Daughters of the American Revolution.

Mary Ellen Britton (16 Apr 1855 – 27 Aug 1925 | Lexington KY – Lexington KY) educator, suffragist, journalist, columnist, civil rights activist, first female African-American physician in Lexington, original member of KY Negro Education Association.

Emily Susan Hartwell (16 Apr 1859 – 02 Oct 1951 | Foochow CN – Oberlin OH) philanthropist, relief worker, orphanage founder, educational missionary, founder / teacher of girls’ school at Ponasang.

Grace Anne Bower anniebower71@gmail.com Hill (16 Apr 1865 – 01 Jan 1947 | Wellsville NY – Swarthmore PA) aka Marcia Macdonald, Christian novelist / short story writer.

01 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Martha Wadsworth Brewster (01 Apr 1710 – c. 1757 | Lebanon CT – Lebanon CT) poet, writer.

Mary Richardson Walker (01 Apr 1811 – 21 Nov 1877 | Baldwin ME – Forest Grove OR) diarist, frontier missionary to Spokan Indians, co-founded Columbia Maternal Association, one of first six women to travel over Rocky Mountains.

Agnes Repplier (01 apr 1855 – 15 nov 1950 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) author, essayist, biographer, cat lover / owner.

Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge (01 Apr 1866 – 30 Jul 1948 | Lexington KY – Chicago IL) author, social activist / scientist, higher education innovator, Progressive Era social reformer.

Aurelia Isabel Henry Reinhardt (01 Apr 1877 – 28 Jan 1948 | San Francisco CA – Palo Alto CA) peace activist, Unitarian moderator, Mills College president [1916 – 1943], prominent member / leader of numerous organizations.

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.