28 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Meriva M. Carpenter (28 Apr 1802 – 24 Jul 1887 | Ellington CT – Homer NY) landscape / miniature portrait artist.

Caroline Shawk Brooks (28 Apr 1840 – 20 May 1913 | Cincinnati OH – St Louis MO) farmer, pioneer feminist, Centennial Exposition butter sculptor.

Julia Burnelle Smade [Bernie] Babcock (28 Apr 1868 – 14 Jun 1962 | Union OH – Petit Jean AR) poet, editor, essayist, novelist, satirist, illustrator, newspaper writer, museum founder.

Frances Reed Elliott Davis (28 Apr 1883 – 02 May 1965 | Shelby NC – Mount Clemens MI) first African-American nurse officially admitted to the American Red Cross Nursing Service.

Edith Summers Kelley (28 Apr 1884 – 09 Jun 1956 | Toronto ON – Los Gatos CA) Canadian-born American novelist.

10 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Louise Chandler Moulton (10 Apr 1835 – 10 Aug 1908 | Pomfret CT – Boston MA) poet, critic, short-story writer, prose fiction author, literary salon hostess.

Lucy Higgs Nichols (10 Apr 1838 – 25 Jan 1915 | Halifax County NC – New Albany IN) escaped slave, aka Miss Lucy, Civil War Union nurse, sole female honorary member of Grand Army of the Republic.

Mary Emilee Holmes (10 Apr 1850 – 13 Feb 1906 | Chester NY – Rockford IL) geologist, educator, first female fellow of the Geological Society of America, co-founded seminary for young black women.

Helene Carola Nancy Sanford Dow (10 Apr 1874 – 08 Aug 1962 | Brussels BE – Derby CT) author, travel writer, aka Machesa di Poggio.

Margaret [Daisy] Sutermeister (10 Apr 1875 – 30 May 1951 | Milton MA – Milton MA) glass-plate photographer, plant nursery manager, a few years after her death 1800+ photographic works discovered stored in her barn.

07 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Tabitha Gilman Tenney (07 Apr 1762 – 02 May 1837 | Exeter NH – Exeter NH) author, novelist.

Mary Elizabeth Sigler Bunn (07 Apr 1788 – 31 Jul 1833 | Derry Township PA – Hunterdon County NJ) Married prosperous farm owner, member of well-to-do industrialist’s family.

Jane Evans Elliot (07 Apr 1820 – 05 Dec 1886 | Fayetteville NC – Ellerslie Plantation NC) Civil War and post-war diarist, three-volume diaries spanning four decades.

Anna T. Jeanes (07 Apr 1822 – 24 Sep 1907 | Philadelphia PA – Germantown PA) Quaker, philanthropist, educational activist, founding director of The Jeanes Fund [originally The Negro Rural School Fund].

Marjory Stoneman Douglas (07 Apr 1890 – 14 May 1998 | Minneapolis MN – Coconut Grove FL) writer, feminist, journalist, environmentalist.

10 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Walter Chandler Coates (10 Mar 1829 – 24 Jul 1897 | Kennett Square PA – Kansas City MO) Quaker, suffragist, social / political activist, women’s club founder / leader, aka The Queen of Quality Hill.

Sarah Malinda [Sam] Pritchard Blalock (10 Mar 1839 – 09 Mar 1901 | Avery County NC – Watauga County NC) US Civil War female soldier, fought for both North and South.

Josephine [Ina] Donna Coolbrith (10 Mar 1841 – 29 Feb 1928 | Nauvoo IL – Berkeley CA) poet, writer, librarian, first-ever US State Poet Laureate.

Hallie Quinn Brown (10 Mar 1850 – 16 Sep 1949 | Pittsburgh PA – Wilberforce OH) writer, activist, educator, abolitionist, elocutionist, humanitarian, African-American, women’s rights activist.

Mary Mills Patrick (10 Mar 1850 – 25 Feb 1940 | Canterbury NH – Palo Alto CA) author, scholar, college president, autobiographer, earned PhD at Universitiy of Bern.

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.

10 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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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.

02 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Delia Salter Bacon (02 Feb 1811 – 02 Sep 1859 | Tallmadge OH – Hartford CT) poet, playwright, literary scholar, short story writer, Shakespearean theorist / researcher.

Sarah Marshall Boone (02 Feb 1832 – 1904 | near New Burn NC – New Haven CT) inventor, dressmaker, seamstress, patented wooden ironing board.

Sarah Ann Hackett Stevenson (02 Feb 1841 – 14 Aug 1909 | Buffalo Grove IL – Chicago IL) author, educator, physician, humanitarian, first female American Medical Association member, co-founded Illinois Training School for Nurses.

Effie Brooks [Theodate] Pope Riddle (02 Feb 1867 – 30 Aug 1946 | Salem OH – Farmington CT) one of first registered US female architects, survivor of the sinking of RMS Lusitania, founded / designed Avon Old Farms School, member of American Society for Psychical Research.

Anne Bauchens (02 Feb 1882 – 07 May 1967 | St Louis MO – Woodland Hills CA) film editor, Academy Award for Film Editing, first woman to win an Oscar for film editing.

01 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Johanna Graham Bethune (01 Feb 1770 – 28 Jul 1860 | Fort Niagara ON – New York NY) author, memoirist, social activist, leader in Sunday school education movement, founded Orphan Asylum Society and Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Children.

Hannah Harrison Cohoon (01 Feb 1788 – 07 Jan 1864 | Williamstown MA – Hancock MA) Shaker visionary artist, music composer, created Tree of Life iconic ‘gift painting’.

Harriet Ann Jacobs (01 Feb 1813 – 07 Mar 1897 | Edenton NC – Washington DC) former slave, pen name: Linda Brent, autobiographical author, Civil War relief worker, co-founded two schools for freed slaves.

Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (c. 01 Feb 1818 – c. 01 May 1907 | Dinwiddie County Court House VA – Washington DC) former slave, memoirist, First Lady’s seamstress, businesswoman. 

Lucy Wheelock (01 Feb 1857 – 01 Oct 1946 | Cambridge VT – Boston MA) author, lecturer, translator, one of first US kindergarten education pioneers, founding director of Wheelock Kindergarten Training School.

25 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

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Clarina Irene Howard Nichols (25 Jan 1810 – 11 Jan 1885 | West Townshend VT – Potter Valley CA) author, abolitionist, journalist, lobbyist, public speaker, temperance worker, women’s rights activist, Underground Railroad conductor.

Virginia Jane Kyle Campbell (25 Jan 1822 – 30 Jan 1882 | Raleigh NC – St Louis MO) Irish-American philanthropist, social / political hostess, St. Louis high society matron / activist.

Ann Ralston James (25 Jan 1853 – 06 Jul 1944 | Independence MO – Excelsior Springs MO) American folk figure, wife of Western outlaw / reformed businessman Frank James.

Bertha Feiring Tapper (25 Jan 1859 – 02 Sep 1915 | Oslo NO – New York NY) pianist, author, altruist, composer, humanitarian, music editor, music teacher.

Maud Wood Park (25 Jan 1871 – 08 May 1955 | Boston MA – Reading MA) activist, author, lecturer, playwright, suffragist.

16 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

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Virginia Caroline Tunstall Clay-Clopton (16 Jan 1825 – 23 Jan 1915 | Nash County NC – Gurley AL) author, memoirist, political wife, suffragist, United Daughters of the Confederacy member.

Ellen Russell Emerson (16 Jan 1837 – 12 Jun 1907 | New Sharon ME – Cambridge MA) author, sketcher, ethnologist.

Sarah Rosetta Wakeman (16 Jan 1843 – 19 Jun 1864 | Afton NY – New Orleans LA) US folk figure, aka Lyons Wakeman, letter correspondent, disguised Civil War Union soldier.

Ella Flagg Young (16 Jan 1844 – 26 Oct 1918 | Buffalo NY – Washington DC) author, essayist, theorist, educator, first female superintendent of major school district, first female president of National Education Association [NEA].

Margaret Wilhelmina Wilson (16 Jan 1882 – 06 Oct 1973 | Traer IA – Droitwich UK) novelist, aka G.D. Turner, 1924 Pulitzer Prize for The Able McLaughlins.