10 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

Anne Robertson Johnson Cockrill (10 Feb 1757 – 13 Oct 1821 | Wake County NC – Nashville TN) pioneer landowner, first female to receive land grant in Tennessee.


Mildred Childe Lee (10 Feb 1845 – 27 Mar 1905 | Arlington VA – New Orleans LA) folk figure, Confederate family member, General Robert E. Lee’s youngest daughter.


Marguerite Milton Wells (10 Feb 1872 – 12 Aug 1959 | Milwaukee WI – Minneapolis MN) writer, suffragist, social reformer, MN League of Women Voters state / national president.


Mary Rowena [Rena] Maverick Green (10 Feb 1874 – 29 Nov 1962 | Sedalia MO – San Antonio TX) editor, sculptor, suffragist, memoirist, publisher, watercolorist, social activist, one of first women on San Antonio School Board, co-founder / first president of San Antonio Conservation Society.


Edith Clarke (10 Feb 1883 – 29 Oct 1959 | Howard County MD – Olney MD) author, essayist, first US female electrical engineer, first US female professor of electrical engineering, first woman to earn MS in electrical engineering from MIT, invented / patented Clarke calculator / Clarke transformation, first female Fellow of American Institute of Electrical Engineers.

09 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

Patience Lovell Wright (09 Feb 1725 – 23 Mar 1786 | Oyster Bay NY – London UK) poet, painter, wax sculptor, first recognized US female sculptor, aka The Promethean Modeler, American Revolutionary War political spy / activist.


Sarah [Sally] Hemings (09 Feb 1773 – 1835 | Charles City County, Virginia Colony – Charlottesville VA) diarist, domestic slave, social / political / literary figure.


Lydia Estes Pinkham (09 Feb 1819 – 17 May 1873 | Lynn MA – Lynn MA) women’s herbal remedy inventor / developer / entrepreneur.


Laura Redden Searing (09 Feb 1839 – 10 Aug 1923 | Somerset County MD – San Mateo County CA) poet, journalist, songwriter, pen name: Howard Glyndon, onset of deafness at age 11.


Laura Clay (09 Feb 1849 – 29 Jun 1941 | White Hall KY – Lexington KY) orator, suffragist leader, Kentucky Equal Rights Association co-founder / first president.

03 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (03 Feb 1737 – 23 Feb 1801 | Horsham PA – Philadelphia PA) poet, author, commonplace book writer.


Amelia Ball Coppuck Welby (03 Feb 1819 – 03 May 1852 | St Michael’s MD – Louisville KY) poet.


Anna Campbell Palmer (03 Feb 1854 – 18 Jun 1928 | Elmira NY – Elmira NY) novelist, aka Mrs. George Archibald.


Alice Locke Park (03 Feb 1861 – 18 Oct 1961 | Boston MA – Palo Alto CA) pacifict, suffragist, feminist, peace / women’s rights activist, WILPF leader, founded Palo Alto Women’s Peace Party, organized American Union Against Militarism [later the American Civil Liberties Union].


Gertrude Stein (03 Feb 1874 – 27 Jul 1946 | Allegheny PA – Neuilly-sur-Seine FR) poet, novelist, lesbian, playwright, language innovator.