14 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Narcissa Prentiss Whitman (14 Mar 1808 – 29 Nov 1847 | Prattsburgh NY – Waiilatpu [now Spokane] WA) diarist, letter correspondent, Whitman Massacre victim, missionary / mission founder, first white woman known to cross Rocky Mountains.

Lucy Hobbs Taylor (14 Mar 1833 – 03 Oct 1910 | Constable NY – Lawrence KS) women’s rights activist, first graduated / licensed US female dentist.

Eliza Frances Shepard Pumpelly (14 Mar 1840 – 05 Feb 1915 | Dorchester MA – Newport RI) socialite, mother, aka Mrs. Raphael Pumpelly, portrait painted by John Singer Sargent.

Anna Caroline Maxwell (14 Mar 1851 – 02 Jan 1929 | Bristol NY – New York NY) nurse, author, nurse educator, established Army Nursing Corps, aka The American Florence Nightingale.

Emily Gowan Ferguson Murphy (14 Mar 1868 – 27 Oct 1933 | Cookstown ON – Edmonton AB) jurist, author, magistrate, women’s rights activist, one of Canada’s Famous Five.

12 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jane Means Appleton Pierce (12 Mar 1806 – 02 Dec 1863 | Hampton NH – Andover MA) US Presidential First Lady, aka The Shadow of the White House.

Elizabeth Crocker Bowers (12 Mar 1830 – 06 Nov 1895 | Stamford CT – Philadelphia PA) stage actress, theatrical / music academy manager.

Dora Wheeler Keith (12 Mar 1856 – 07 Dec 1940 | New York NY – Brooklyn NY) artist, designer, illustrator, realist painter, aka Mrs. Boudinot Keith.

Alice Harriman Browne (12 Mar 1861 – 24 Dec 1925 | Newport ME – Hollywood CA) poet, editor, novelist, publisher, short story writer, nonfiction author, aka The Only Woman Publisher in the World.

Clara Bowdoin Winthrop (12 Mar 1876 – 15 Mar 1969 | Boston MA – Boston MA) poet, art collector, philanthropist.

08 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Hannah Hoes Van Buren (08 Mar 1783 – 05 Feb 1819 | Kinderhook NY – Albany NY) US Presidential First Lady.

Orra White Hitchcock (08 Mar 1796 – 26 May 1863 | South Amherst MA – Amherst MA) artist, teacher, watercolorist, classroom chart muralist, early female botanical / scientific / geological / landscape illustrator.

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (08 Mar 1828 – 04 Apr 1887 | New York NY – New York NY) art collector, philanthropist.

Agnes Harrington D’Arcambal (08 Mar 1829 – 14 Feb 1899 | Burlington VT – Detroit MI) social activist, prison reformer, humanitarian, founded D’Arcambal Home of Industry for discharged prisoners.

Josephine Garis-Cochran [later Cochrane] (08 Mar 1839 – 03 Aug 1913 | Ashtabula County OH – Chicago IL) American inventor, invented first successful hand-powered dishwasher, founded Garis-Cochrane Manufacturing Company, renamed 1897 as Cochran’s Crescent Washing Machine Company, posthumously inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame [2006].

Eliza Poor Donner Houghton (08 Mar 1843 – 19 Feb 1922 | Springfield IL – Los Angeles CA) memoirist, massacre survivor.

07 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Henrietta de Beaulieu Dering Johnston (07 Mar 1670 – 09 Mar 1729 | Dublin IE – Charleston SC) pastelist, noted as first professional woman artist in America.

Rebecca Hammond Laird (07 Mar 1772 – 28 Sep 1855 | New Bedford MA – Madison IN) poet, teacher, aka the first poet in Indiana.

Elizabeth [Ebe] Manning Hawthorne (07 Mar 1802 – 01 Jan 1883 | Salem MA – Montserrat MA) author, sister of / coauthor with Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Mary Eleanor Brackenridge (07 Mar 1837 – 14 Feb 1924 | Warrick County IN – San Antonio TX) clubwoman, women’s rights activist, clubwoman philanthropist, co-founded Woman’s Club of San Antonio, first female to sit on any Texas university governing board, one of three women on first board of regents at Texas Woman’s University [photos © Texas Woman’s University].

Louise Whitfield Carnegie (07 Mar 1857 – 24 Jun 1946 | New York NY – New York NY) philanthropist.

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.

05 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Silvia Dubois (05 Mar 1788 – 27 May 1888 | Sourland Mountain NJ – Sourland Mountain NJ) domestic, fieldworker, freed slave, tavern owner, ferrywoman, oral historian, subject of Silvia Dubois: A Biografy of the Slav who Whipt Her Mistres and Gand Her Fredom by C. W. Larison.

Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (05 Mar 1819 – 21 Jul 1870 | Bordeaux FR – Twickenham UK) American author, actress, playwright, public reader.

Lucy Larcom (05 Mar 1824 – 17 Apr 1893 | Beverly MA – Boston MA) poet, Rushlight Literary Magazine founder.

Constance Fenimore Woolson (05 Mar 1840 – 24 Jan 1894 | Claremont NH – Venice IT) poet, novelist, travel writer, short story writer.

Harriet Newell Noyes (05 Mar 1844 – 16 Jan 1924 | Guilford Township OH – Seville OH) author, educator, Presbyterian missionary, founded the True Light Middle School / first women’s school in Canton Province in China.

03 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Una Hawthorne (03 Mar 1844 – 10 Sep 1877 | Concord MA – London UK) artistic / literary family member, daughter of artist Sophia Hawthorne / author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Isabel Weld Perkins Anderson (03 Mar 1876 – 03 Nov 1948 | Boston MA – Washington DC) poet, editor, heiress, travel writer, philanthropist, children’s author, WWI ARC nurse, aka Mrs Larz Anderson.

Margaret Chase Going Woodhouse (03 Mar 1890 – 12 Dec 1984 | Victoria BC – Sprague CT) educator, politician, economics professor, aka Chase Woodhouse, founder / director Institute of Women’s Professional Relations.

Grace Lumpkin (03 Mar 1891 – 03 Mar 1980 | Milledgeville GA – Columbia SC) feminist, public speaker, proletarian novelist, US Communist, later in life anti-Communist Christian convert.

Beatrice Wood (03 Mar 1893 – 12 Mar 1998 | San Francisco CA – Ojai CA) artist, potter, aka The Mama of Dada.

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.

01 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Palmer Tyler (01 Mar 1775 – 07 Jul 1866 | Watertown MA – Brattleboro VT) author, farmer, mother of 11 children, published one of earliest childcare manuals [1811] by an American woman.

Lillian M. N. Ames Stevens (01 Mar 1844 – 06 Apr 1914 | Dover-Foxcroft ME – Portland ME) philanthropist, humanitarian, community activist, women’s right advocate, founder / president Maine WCTU and president of US National WCTU [Women’s Christian Temperance Union].

Mary Ella Waller (01 Mar 1855 – 14 Jun 1938 | Boston MA – Wellesley MA) poet, novelist, essayist, translator, short story writer.

Virginia E. Walker Broughton (01 Mar 1856 – 21 Sep 1934 | Nashville TN – Memphis TN) African-American author, teacher, essayist, preacher, religious scholar, Baptist missionary.

Katharine Elizabeth Dopp (01 Mar 1863 – 14 May 1944 | Belmont WI – Chicago IL) teacher, educational activist, one of first to advocate for industry / business involvement in elementary education, children / young adult textbooks author in science / economics / anthropology.

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.