20 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Maria Louise Pool (20 Aug 1841 – 18 May 1898 | Rockland MA – Rockland MA) author, social novelist, magazine writer.

Margaret Clay Ferguson (20 Aug 1863 – 28 Aug 1951 | Orleans NY – San Diego CA) author, botanist, first woman president Botanical Society of America.

Ellen Crosby Roosevelt (20 Aug 20 1868 – 26 Sep 1954 | Rosedale NY – Hyde Park NY) American tennis player, first cousin to FDR, posthumously inducted into International Tennis Hall of Fame [1975].

Caroline Risque Janis (20 Aug 1883 – 09 Apr 1952 | St Louis MO – St Louis MO) painter, sculptor, member of The Potters’ Wheel group of artists and writers.

Rose Hum Lee (20 Aug 1904 – 24 Mar 1964 | Butte MT – Phoenix AZ) author, sociologist, researcher, short story writer, first female Chinese-American sociology department head.

31 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jessie Ann Benton Frémont (31 May 1824 – 27 Dec 1902 | Rockbridge VA – Los Angeles CA) author, memoirist, abolitionist, political activist, short story writer.

Kate Kennedy (31 May 1827 – 18 Mar 1890 | Gaskinstown IE – Oakland CA) essayist, educator, educational reformer, teacher tenure activist / advocate.

Emily Perkins Bissell (31 May 1861 – 08 Mar 1948 | Wilmington DE – Wilmington DE) essayist, health activist, social reformer, Christmas Seals founder.

Cynthia Westover Alden (31 May 1862 – 08 Jan 1931 | Afton IA – Brooklyn NY) poet, author, editor, teacher, journalist, civil servant, philanthropist, pen name: Kate Kensington, invented NYC street-cleaners’ cart, founder / president-general of the International Sunshine Society to house / educate blind babies / children / elderly.

Kathlyn Williams Eyton (31 May 1888 – 23 Sep 1960 | Butte MT – Hollywood CA) actress, screenwriter, social philanthropist.