22 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Emily Huntington Miller (22 Oct 1833 – 02 Nov 1913 | Brooklyn CT – Northfield MN) poet, author, educator, hymn writer, laid groundwork for formation of National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union [WCTU].

Abigail Scott Duniway (22 Oct 1834 – 11 Oct 1915 | Groveland IL – Portland OR) writer, suffragist, women’s rights activist, newspaper editor / publisher.

Mary Jane McAfee Atkins (22 Oct 1836 – 13 Oct 1911 | Harrodsburg KY – Colorado Springs CO) heiress, teacher, philanthropist, founded Kansas City Art Museum [now known as Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art].

Annie Louise Cary Raymond (22 Oct 1842 – 03 Apr 1921 | Wayne ME – Norwalk CT) opera / concert singer.

Charlotte Champe Stearns Eliot (22 Oct 1843 – 10 Sep 1929 | Baltimore MD – Cambridge MA) poet, teacher, social worker, mother of T. S. Eliot.

19 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anna Murray-Douglass (19 Oct 1813 – 04 Aug 1882 | Denton MD – Washington DC) African-American abolitionist, Underground Railroad activist, first wife of Frederick Douglass.

Amanda Theodocia Jones (19 Oct 1835 – 31 Mar 1914 | East Bloomfield NY – Brooklyn NY) poet, author, inventor, suffragist, spiritualist, Jones Process vacuum canning company founder.

Margaret Hamilton (19 Oct 1840 – 11 Jan 1922 | Rochester NY – Wakefield MA) teacher, Civil War Union nurse, religious Sister of Charity, left Catholic Church and Sisters of Charity, converted to Baptist Church, president National Army Nurse Association.

Annie Smith Peck (19 Oct 1850 – 18 Jul 1935 | Providence RI – New York NY) author, scholar, lecturer, feminist, suffragist, adventurer, mountaineer, travel writer.

Bertha Knight Landes (19 Oct 1868 – 29 Nov 1943 | Ware MA – Ann Arbor MI) Seattle WA mayor, women’s activist, first female elected to govern major US city.

24 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lois Lathrop Cutler (24 Sep 1788 – 23 Mar 1878 | Lebanon NH – Oak Lake MN) Mormon pioneer, mother of fourteen, Female Relief Society activist.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (24 Sep 1825 – 22 Feb 1911 | Baltimore MD – Philadelphia PA) poet, author, essayist, feminist, abolitionist, African-American, aka The Bronze Muse, civil rights / temperance activist.

Katharine [Kate] Brownlee Sherwood (24 Sep 1841 – 15 Feb 1914 | Poland OH – Washington DC) poet, journalist, clubwoman, women’s relief leader, Poetess of Congressional Circle.

Winifred Edgerton Merrill (24 Sep 1862 – 06 Sep 1951 | Ripon WI – Fairfield CT) astronomer, first female Columbia University graduate, first US woman PhD in mathematics.

Cornelia Bowen (24 Sep 1865 – 09 Jul 1934 | Tuskegee AL – Mount Meigs AL) writer, teacher, educator, administrator, in the first graduating class of Tuskegee Institute, founded Mount Meigs Colored Institute and Negro Boys’ Reformatory.

21 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (21 Sep 1809 – 26 Feb 1871 | Salem MA – London UK) painter, illustrator, essayist, journal editor.

Mary Monnett Bain (21 Sep 1833 – 30 Jul 1885 | Delaware OH – Osawatomie KS) philanthropist, women’s higher education advocate / supporter.

Mary T. Waggaman (21 Sep 1846 – 30 Jul 1931 | Baltimore MD – Baltimore MD) prolific children’s author and religious novelist.

Susan Macdowell Eakins (21 Sep 1851 – 27 Dec 1938 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) artist, painter, photographer, artist’s model.

Sara Delano Roosevelt (21 Sep 1854 – 07 Sep 1941 | Newburgh NY – Hyde Park NY) memoirist, mother of FDR, political family member, mother-in-law to Eleanor Roosevelt.

07 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Lua Adelia Davis Treat (07 Sep 1830 – 11 Apr 1923 | Trumansburg NY – Pembroke NY) writer, botanist, naturalist, entomologist, utopian community member, collaborated with Charles Darwin, aka ‘One of Darwin’s Women’.

Alice Chipman Dewey (07 Sep 1858 – 14 Jul 1927 | Fenton MI – New York NY) PhD, author, mother, educator, philosopher, world traveler, women’s right activist, letter correspondent, co-founded Laboratory School with husband John Dewey.

Laura Coombs Hills (07 Sep 1859 – 21 Feb 1952 | Newburyport MA – Massachusetts) designer, illustrator, watercolorist, miniature portrait painter.

Anna Mary Robertson Moses (07 Sep 1860 – 13 Dec 1961 | Greenwich NY – Hoosick Falls NY) farmer, folk artist, aka Grandma Moses, needlework artist.

Nellie Arnold Plummer (07 Sep 1860 – 01 Jan 1933 | Ellicott’s Mills MD – Hyatsville MD) author, teacher, former slave, first female student at Wayland Seminary, biographical / autobiographical writer.

29 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anna Ella Carroll (29 Aug 1815 – 19 Feb 1893 | Pocomoke City MD – Washington DC) author, reporter, lobbyist, politician, pamphleteer, US Presidential consultant, informal member of Lincoln’s Cabinet, never officially recognized for her strategic contributions.

Eliza Allen Starr (29 Aug 1824 – 08 Sep 1901 | Deerfield MA – Durand IL) poet, author, lecturer, illustrator, Catholic convert.

Abby Hutchison Patton (29 Aug 1829 – 24 Nov 1892 | New York NY – Milford NH) hymnist, concert singer.

Mary Garrett Hay (29 Aug 1857 – 29 Aug 1928 | Charlestown IN – New Rochelle NY) suffragist, community organizer, co-worker and companion to Carrie Chapmann Catt, president of Women’s City Club of New York / Woman Suffrage Party / New York Equal Suffrage League.

Florine Stettheimer (29 Aug 1871 – 11 May 1944 | Rochester NY – Manhattan NY) poet, painter, designer.

15 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anna L. Clapp (15 Aug 1814 – 03 Dec 1889 | Cambridge NY – Lee Center IL) Civil War nurse, Ladies Union Aid Society founder, Western Sanitary Commission president, female veteran nurse benefits / pensions activist / spokeswoman.

Ann Pamela Cunningham (15 Aug 1816 – 01 May 1875 | Rosemont Plantation SC – Rosemont Plantation SC) historical preservationist, founded The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union.

Biddy Mason (15 Aug 1818 – 16 Jan 1891 | Hancock GA – Los Angeles CA) social activist, humanitarian, philanthropist, businesswoman, nurse / midwife, freed African-American slave, founded travelers center / black elementary school / first A.M.E. Church in California.

Virginia Clemm Poe (15 Aug 1822 – 30 Jan 1847 | Baltimore MD – Fordham NY) literary folk figure, wife / first cousin of Edgar Allan Poe.

Mary Cunningham Logan (15 Aug 1838 – 22 Feb 1922 | Petersburg MO – Washington DC ) writer, editor, memoirist.

21 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Theodosia Bartow Burr Alston (21 Jun 1783 – 29 Dec 1812 | Albany NY – lost at sea off coast of South Carolina) folk figure, letter correspondent, First Lady of South Carolina, US Vice Presidential daughter.

Minnie Dessau Louis (21 Jun 1841 – 12 Mar 1922 | Philadelphia PA – Manhattan NY) poet, author, educator, community leader, co-founder of National Council of Jewish Women.

Mary Salome Cutler Fairchild (21 Jun 1855 – 20 Dec 1921 | Dalton MA – Takoma Park MD) author, librarian, library activist / educator.

Martha Van Rensselaer (21 Jun 1864 – 26 May 1932 | Randolph NY – New York NY) author, editor, educator, domestic scientist, founding co-director Cornell College of Home Economics.

Mary Cromwell Jarrett (21 Jun 1876 – 04 Aug 1961 | Baltimore MD – New York NY) author, educator, researcher, psychiatric social worker, pioneer work with post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD].

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.

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.