05 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Kate Cumming (05 Jun 1828 – 05 Jun 1909 | Scotland UK – Birmingham AL) diarist, memoirist, Confederate nurse.

Miriam Florence Folline Squier Leslie (05 Jun 1836 – 18 Sep 1914 | New Orleans LA – New York NY) author, memoirist, publisher.

Sarah Elizabeth Forbush Downs (05 Jun 1843 – 1926 | Wrentham MA – Cambridge MA) dime novelist, magazine writer, aka Mrs Georgie Sheldon, Mrs George Sheldon Downs.

Susan Stuart Frackelton (05 Jun 1848 – 14 Apr 1932 | Milwaukee WI – Kenilworth IL) artist, author, ceramics painter, Arts and Crafts movement leader.

Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman (05 Jun 1853 – 19 Mar 1915 | Cedarville IL – Chicago IL) banker, educator, social activist, craftswoman, philanthropist, Woman’s Club leader, physician’s assistant, sister of social activist Jane Addams, mother of Marcet Haldeman-Julius.

21 May | Women’s Words & Works

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Nancy H. Adsit (21 May 1825 – 27 Apr 1902 | Palermo NY – Milwaukee WI) art lecturer / educator / essayist, first US female insurance agent.

Elizabeth Storrs Billings Mead (21 May 1832 – 25 Mar 1917 | Conway MA – Coconut Grove FL) author, educator, president of Oberlin and Mount Holyoke Colleges.

Anna Callender Brackett (21 May 1836 – 18 Mar 1911 | Boston MA – Summit NJ) author, educator, translator, philosopher, first female normal school principal, editor of New England Journal of Education.

Mary Virginia [Jennie] Wade (21 May 1843 – 03 Jul 1863 | Gettysburg VA – Gettysburg VA) Civil War Union supporter, lone civilian casualty at Battle of Gettysburg.

Amelia [Amy] Muller Fay (21 May 1844 – 28 Feb 1928 | Bayou Goula LA – Cambridge MA) author, musician, concert pianist.

02 May | Women’s Words & Works

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Rhoda Lavinia [Vinnie] Goodell (02 May 1839 – 31 Mar 1880 | Utica NY – Janesville WI) first licensed female lawyer in Wisconsin State.

Katharine Putnam Hooker (02 May 1849 – 07 Jan 1935 | Milwaukee WI – Santa Barbara CA) socialite, philanthropist, travel writer.

Margaret Hill McCarter (02 May 1860 – 31 Aug 1938 | Carthage IN – Topeka KS) teacher, novelist, founded Western Sorosis women’s club.

Julia Barnett Rice (02 May 1860 – 18 Nov 1929 | New Orleans LA – New York NY) musician, physician, civic / social activist, documented unnecessary tugboat whistling / aided passage of 1907 Bennett Act, founding president of The Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise, founded SSUN children’s branch for NYC Board of Education.

Alice Bertha Kroeger (02 May 1864 – 31 Oct 1909 | St. Louis MO – Philadelphia PA) author, lecturer, librarian, professor, student of Melvil Dewey, founder / director of library science program at Drexel University [1892-1909].

23 Apr | Women’s Words & Works

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Penina Moise (23 Apr 1797 – 13 Sep 1880 | Charleston SC – Charleston SC) poet, hymnist.

Susan Louise Cotton Marsh (23 Apr 1867 – 21 Sep 1946 | Troy IN – St Louis MO) author, activist, biographer, children’s advocate, Poet Laureate of Missouri, children’s guardianship legislative proponent.

Tillie Anderson (23 Apr 1875 – 29 Apr 1965 | Skåne SE – Detroit Lakes MN) Swedish-American, cyclist, seamstress, undisputed ladies’ cycling champion of the world, women’s cycling activist, advocate for bicycle paths in Chicago City Parks.

Mary Ellicott Arnold (23 Apr 1876 – 23 May 1968 | New Brighton NY – Delaware County PA) writer, teacher, Quaker, memoirist, Native American Indian rights activist, member Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom [WILPF].

Miriam Dorothy [Isidora] Newman (23 Apr 1878 – 1955 | New Orleans LA – New Orleans LA) poet, artist, writer, playwright, storyteller, philanthropist.

26 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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Sophia McIlvaine Bledsoe Herrick (26 Mar 1837 – 09 Oct 1919 | Gambier OH – Greenwich CT) editor, science writer, literary critic.

Jessie Catherine Kinsley (26 Mar 1858 – 10 Feb 1938 | Oneida NY – Oneida NY) diarist, painter, folk artist, memoirist, letter correspondent, braided tapestry maker, Oneida Community member.

Alice Lee Hornor Snelling Moqué (26 Mar 1861 – 16 Jul 1919 | New Orleans LA – Washington DC) poet, essayist, lecturer, travel writer, suffragist, photographer, sportswoman, newspaper correspondent, early US female bicyclist, founding member / vice-president of National Congress of Mothers.

Bertha Van Hoosen (26 Mar 1863 – 07 Jun 1952 | Stony Creek MI – Romeo MI) essayist, physician, medical illustrator, women’s health advocate, autobiographical author, president / founding member American Medical Women’s Association.

Agnes Gertrude Regan (26 Mar 1869 – 30 Sep 1943 | San Francisco CA – Washington DC) lay leader, women’s activist, federal housing advocate, Latin American female exchange student activist, executive secretary of National Council of Catholic Women.