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.

19 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Cornelia Grinnell Willis (19 Mar 1825 – 24 Mar 1904 | New Bedford MA – Washington DC) abolitionist, women’s rights advocate, columnist for New York Ledger, protected and purchased freedom for Harriet Jacobs, founding member of first US Woman’s Club, founded school for young women at the Willis Idlewild Estate.

Alice French (19 Mar 1850 – 09 Jan 1934 | Andover MA – Davenport IA) novelist, aka Octave Thanet.

Ellen Gates Starr (19 Mar 1859 – 10 Feb 1940 | Laona IL – Suffern NY) author, teacher, lecturer, bookbinder, child labor activist, anti-industrialist, co-founder of Hull-House, social / political reformer, Arts and Crafts Movement practitioner.

Senda Berenson Abbott (19 Mar 1868 – 16 Feb 1954 | Vilnius LT – Santa Barbara CA ) author, wrote first guide / rule book for women’s basketball, Instructor of Physical Culture at Smith College, aka The Mother of Women’s Basketball.

Edith Nourse Rogers (19 Mar 1881 – 10 Sep 1960 | Saco ME – Boston MA) aviator, politician, social welfare activist, created US GI Bill, veterans advocate, Women’s Army Corps founder, longest tenured US State Representative.

13 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Abigail Powers Fillmore (13 Mar 1798 – 30 Mar 1853 | Stillwater NY – Washington DC) US Presidential First Lady, book collector, private librarian.

Jane Elizabeth Hitchcock Jones (13 Mar 1813 – 13 Jan 1896 | Vernon NY – Brooklyn NY) author, suffragist, abolitionist, women’s rights activist.

Clara L. Brown Dyer (13 Mar 1849 – 02 Mar 1931 | Cape Elizabeth ME – Portland ME) artist, reader, lecturer, landscape painter, social club woman, one of first members of the Society of Art and the Portland Art League, organizing president of National Society of United States Daughters of 1812 in State of Maine. 

Phebe Estelle Spalding (13 Mar 1859 – 12 Mar 1937 | Westfield VT – Pomona CA) author, art historian, first female professor Pomona College.

Alice Bellvadore Sams Turner (13 Mar 1859 – 10 Jul 1915 | Mingo IA – Colfax IA) diarist, teacher, physician, social activist, public press contributor, co-founded Colfax Free Public Library, co-founded Turner Rest Home and Sanitarium, first female health officer in Iowa, first woman admitted to Iowa Health and Protective Association.

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.

09 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary T. Martin Sloop (09 Mar 1873 – 13 Jan 1962 | Davidson NC – Crossnore NC) physician, educational reformer, autobiographical author, Crossnore School founding director, established women’s Weaving Room, funded social works by selling used clothing.

Beatrice Alexander Behrman (09 Mar 1895 – 03 Oct 1990 | Brooklyn NY – Palm Beach FL) dollmaker, entrepreneur, aka Madame Alexander.

Thelma Given (09 Mar 1896 – 25 Dec 1977 | Columbus OH – Boston MA) violinist, aka Little Miss Given.

Clara Reisenberg Rockmore (09 Mar 1911 – 10 May 1998 | Vilnius LT – New York NY) violin prodigy, pioneer virtuoso performer of electronic musical instrument theremin.

Marjorie Craig Crowley (09 Mar 1912 – 20 Feb 2003 | Bangor ME – Naples FL) self-help / fitness author, director of Elizabeth Arden Salon of Exercise.

04 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Frances [Ma-con-a-quah] Slocum (04 Mar 1773 – 09 Mar 1847 | Warwick RI – Peru IN) Quaker, folk figure, Delaware Indian captive / survivor / adopted member.

Rebecca Gratz (04 Mar 1781 – 27 Aug 1869 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) author, philanthropist, charitable worker, religious educator, letter correspondent.

Myrtilla Miner (04 Mar 1815 – 17 Dec 1864 | New York NY – Washington DC) educator, abolitionist, social activist, founder / director Normal School for Colored Girls [later DC Teachers College].

Anna Elizabeth Broomall (04 Mar 1847 – 04 Apr 1931 | Upper Chichester Township PA – Chester PA) Quaker, pioneering obstetrics physician / professor, curator / librarian Delaware County [PA] Historical Society.

Effie Carlton Crockett (04 Mar 1856 – 07 Jan 1940 | Rockland ME – Boston MA) actress, composer, singer-songwriter, composed “Rock-A-Bye Baby”.

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.

28 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Mason Lyon (28 Feb 1797 – 05 Mar 1849 | Buckland MA – South Hadley MA) chemist, education activist, founded Wheaton Female Seminar [later Wheaton College], founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary [later renamed Mount Holyoke College].

Sybil Jones Jones (28 Feb 1808 – 04 Dec 1873 | Brunswick ME – Dirigo Corner ME) Quaker minister, foreign missionary.

Cynthia Hicks Van Name Leonard (28 Feb 1828 – 10 Apr 1908 | Buffalo NY – Rutherford NJ) writer, aid worker, suffragist, spiritualist, social reformer, first female NYC Mayoral candidate, founded first IA soldiers home, founded Illinois Good Samaritan Society, created women’s homeless shelters, advocated women prison guards for women.

Sarah Ida Fowler Morgan Dawson (28 Feb 1842 – 05 May 1909 | New Orleans LA – Paris FR) folk figure, Civil War diarist.

Elizabeth Gardiner Glendower Evans (28 Feb 1856 – 12 Dec 1937 | New Rochelle NY – Brookline MA) memoirist, social activist, penal reformer, co-founder of WILPF [Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom].

24 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Harper Tappan (24 Feb 1784 – 02 Aug 1855 | Harpersfield NY – Harpersfield OH) pioneer, teacher at Western Reserve School.

Lydia Amanda Brewster Sewell (24 Feb 1839 – 15 Nov 1926 | North Elba NY – Florence IT) artist, genre / portrait painter.

Emma Esther Lampert Cooper (24 Feb 1855 – 30 Jul 1920 | Nunda NY – Pittsford NY) realist artist.

Maria Maud Leonard McCreery (24 Feb 1883 – 10 Apr 1938 | Cedarburg WI – Milwaukee WI) editor, socialist, feminist, suffragist, pamphleteer, tuberculosis survivor, editor-in-chief, labor union organizer.

Mary Ellen Chase (24 Feb 1887 – 28 Jul 1973 | Blue Hill ME – Northampton MA) critic, novelist, educator, essayist, children’s author.

22 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Isabella Beecher Hooker (22 Feb 1822 – 25 Jan 1907 | Litchfield CT – Hartford CT) author, suffragist activist / leader / lecturer.

Rebecca Sophia Clarke (22 Feb 1833 – 10 Aug 1906 | Norridgewock ME – Norridgewock ME) aka Sophie May, children’s serial novelist.

Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster (22 Feb 1838 – 03 Jun 1912 | New Rochelle NY – South Orange Village NJ) poet, editor, hymnist, short story writer, autobiographical author.

Anna Giaccaglia Hill (22 Feb 1851 – 18 Feb 1931 | Cincinnati OH – Hollywood CA) Annetta Saloski, operatic soprano, aka The Toast of Milan.

Ann Maria [Annie] Le Porte Diggs (22 Feb 1853 – 07 Sep 1916 | London ON – Detroit MI) poet, author, activist, journalist, librarian, Canadian-born American, national speaker / first female delegate for National People’s Party Convention [Omaha NE 1892].