02 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Mortimer (02 Dec 1816 – 14 Jul 1877 | Trowbridge UK – Milwaukee WI) educator, woman’s club leader, art history lecturer, co-founded Milwaukee College, founded Industrial School for Girls of Milwaukee [middle image courtesy of Lawrence.edu].

Elizabeth Lyle Saxon (02 Dec 1832 – 14 Mar 1915 | Greenville TN – Memphis TN) speaker, memoirist, women’s rights activist, pioneer Southern suffrage leader.

Grace Mac Gowan Cooke (02 Dec 1861 – 24 Jun 1944 | Brooklyn NY – Santa Clara CA) novelist, co-writer with sister Alice Mac Gowan.

Ruth Draper (02 Dec 1884 – 30 Dec 1956 | New York NY – New York NY) diseuse, actress, dramatist, memoirist.

Josephine Aspinwall Roche (02 Dec 1886 – 26 Jul 1976 | Neligh NE – Bethesda MD) activist, politician, industrialist, humanitarian, New Deal administrator, first female Denver police officer, United Mine Workers administrator, Foreign Language Information Services director.

02 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Harriet McEwen Kimball (02 Nov 1834 – 03 Sep 1917 | Portsmouth NH – Portsmouth NH) poet, hymnist, philanthropist, aka The Poetess of the Church, funded / founded Portsmouth Cottage Hospital.

Rheta Childe Dorr (02 Nov 1868 – 08 Aug 1948 | Omaha NE – Bucks County PA) author, journalist, social worker, political activist, suffragist newspaper editor.

Marion Jones Farquhar (02 Nov 1879 – 14 Mar 1965 | Gold Hill NV – Los Angeles CA) editor, pianist, author, voice coach, tennis champion, opera libretto translator, short-term head of New York Chamber Opera.

Inez Eva Mee Boren (02 Nov 1880 – 28 Dec 1947 | San Bernardino CA – San Mateo CA) club woman, civic and social activist, director of Woman’s City Club of Oakland, League of Women Voters leader, organizing chair of Lindsay Strathmore Branch of American Red Cross [ARC].

Jessie Daniel Ames (02 Nov 1883 – 21 Feb 1972 | Palestine TX – Austin TX) suffragist, civil / social rights / anti-lynching activist, founded Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching.

26 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Adelaide Johnson (26 Sep 1859 – 10 Nov 1955 | Plymouth IL – Washington DC) artist, sculptor, suffragist.

Lucy Biddle Lewis (26 Sep 1861 – 14 Jan 1941 | Sharon Hill PA – Yeadon PA) Quaker, pacifist, social activist, co-founder of American Friends Service Committee [1917], co-founder and President of WILPF [1922-24].

Eleanor Gates (26 Sep 1874 – 07 Mar 1951 | Shakopee MN – Los Angeles CA) novelist, playwright, scriptwriter.

Mary Elisabeth Dreier (26 Sep 1875 – 15 Aug 1963 | Brooklyn NY – Bar Harbor ME) novelist, biographer, social reformer, women’s workers’ rights activist.

Edith Abbott (26 Sep 1876 – 28 Jul 1957 | Grand Island NE – Grand Island NE) author, educator, economist, social worker.

17 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mercy Ruggles Bisbee Jackson (17 Sep 1802 – 13 Dec 1877 | Hardwick MA – Boston MA) writer, lecturer, suffragist, physician, homeopath, school teacher, temperance activist, mother of eleven children, advocate for women’s medical education, professor of children’s diseases at newly-opened Boston University School of Medicine, applied / denied access to medical training for 10 years because she was a woman.

Cora Frances Stoddard (17 Sep 1872 – 13 May 1936 | Irvington NE – Dorchester MA) author, temperance activist, The Scientific Temperance Federation secretary / active member.

Emily Vanderbilt Sloane Hammond (17 Sep 1874 – 22 Feb 1970 | Manhattan NY – Manhattan NY) author, heiress, musician, socialite, philanthropist, charities activist, founder of Parents’ League of New York.

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (17 Sep 1880 – 01 Jan 1980 | Philadelphia PA – Waterbury CT) figurative sculptor.

Katharine Sergeant Angell White (17 Sep 1892 – 20 Jul 1977 | Winchester MA – Blue Hill ME) author, gardener, New Yorker fiction editor.

30 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth [Eliza] Kortright Monroe (30 Jun 1768 – 23 Sep 1830 | New York, British America – Richmond VA) US First Lady / Hostess, world traveler, political activist, aka La Belle Américaine, White House social customs advocate / innovator.

Mabel Cratty (30 Jun 1868 – 27 Feb 1928 | Bellaire OH – New York NY) writer, teacher, YWCA activist / administrator, women’s rights advocate.

Louise Pound (30 Jun 1872 – 27 Jun 1958 | Lincoln NE – Lincoln NE) author, athlete, feminist, folklorist, professor.

Lydia Jane Roberts (30 Jun 1879 – 28 May 1965 | Hope Township MI – Rio Piedras PR) author, nutritionist, home economics pioneer, vitamin / mineral RDA innovator.

Bertha Pitts Campbell (30 Jun 1889 – 02 Apr 1990 | Winfield KS – Seattle WA) educator, suffragist, civil rights activist, founding member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

17 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Penelope Pagett Barker (17 Jun 1728 – 1796 | Edenton NC – Edenton NC) patriot, political activist, hosted the Edenton Tea Party / boycott of British goods.

Susan La Flesche Picotte (17 Jun 1865 – 18 Sep 1915 | Omaha Reservation NE – Walthill NE) doctor, reformer, children’s health activist, first female Native American trained physician, founded first hospital on Omaha reservation.

Mary Inda Hussey (17 Jun 1876 – 20 Jun 1952 | New Vienna OH – Andover MA) author, essayist, linguist, translator, professor, Assyriologist.

Mary Susan James Barr (17 Jun 1879 – 11 Oct 1935 | Nashville TN – Kansas City MO) folk figure, daughter of Zerelda Mimms and outlaw Jesse James.

Margaret Fuller Boos (17 Jun 1892 – 20 Aug 1978 | Beatrice NE – Denver CO) hiker, geologist, science teacher, professor of geology, fieldwork focus on pegmatite geology, aka Petroluem’s First Lady, first female ranger-naturalist at Rocky Mountain National Park.

25 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Katherine Lucinda Sharp (25 May 1865 – 01 Jun 1914 | Elgin IL – Elgin IL) librarian, founded innovative University of Illinois Library School, helped to professionalize librarianship standards.

Cary Fink Angulo Baynes (25 May 1883 – 1977 | Mexico City MX – Zurich CH) American author, translator, pioneer Jungian, I Ching specialist.

Leta Stetter Hollingworth (25 May 1886 – 27 Nov 1939 | Dawes County NE – New York NY) author, psychological researcher.

Sue Shelton White (25 May 1887 – 06 May 1943 | Henderson TN – Washington DC) editor, author, lawyer, aka Miss Sue, reformer, suffragist, public official, National Women’s Party leader.

Clara Porset (25 May 1895 – 17 May 1981 | Matanzas CU – Los Angeles CA) Cuban-American design educator, interior designer, furniture designer, female designer scholarship award founder, bequeathed The Clara Porset Library [best design library in Mexico].

03 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Laura Matilda Towne (03 May 1825 – 22 Feb 1901 | Pittsburgh PA – St Helena Island SC ) educator, abolitionist, first freedmen’s school founder.

Anne Etheridge Hooks (03 May 1839 – 23 Jan 1913 | Detroit MI – Georgetown VA) aka Gentle Annie, Civil War Union nurse / vivandiere, one of two women to receive Kearny Cross.

George Madden Martin (03 May 1866 – 30 Nov 1946 | Louisville KY – Louisville KY) novelist, social reform / civil rights / prohibition activist, Commission on Interracial Co-operation charter member, Association of Southern Women for Prevention of Lynching leader / advocate.

Angel De Cora (03 May 1871 – 06 Feb 1919 | Thurston NE – Northampton MA) Winnebago teacher, painter, illustrator, Native American rights activist, aka Hinook-Mahiwi-Kalinaka [Fleecy Cloud Floating in Place].

Maud O’Farrell Swartz (03 May 1879 – 22 Feb 1937 | County Kildare IE – Brooklyn NY) Irish-American labor activist, president of Women’s Trade Union League [1922 to 1926], Secretary of the NY State Department of Labor under Industrial Commissioner Frances Perkins, first woman and first trade unionist to hold that position.

20 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Cynthia Farrar (20 Apr 1795 – 25 Jan 1862 | Marlborough NH – Ahmednagar IND) educator, pioneering single / unMarried American female foreign missionary in India.

Matilda Vanderpoel (20 Apr 1862 – 21 Oct 1950 | Haarlemmermeer NL – Chicago IL) artist, social activist, portrait / landscape painter, Dutch-born American, teacher at Colorado Chautauqua, co-founded Blue Bird Cottage / Blue Bird Lodge / Holiday House Association ‘to conserve the health of tired working women’.

Helen Dortch Longstreet (20 Apr 1863 – 03 May 1963 | Carnesville GA – Milledgeville GA) postmistress, aka The Fighting Lady, Confederate memorialist, civil rights activist, environmental preservationist.

Mary Agnes Meara Chase (20 Apr 1869 – 24 Sep 1963 | Iroquois County IL – Bethesda MD) author, botanist, feminist, typesetter, illustrator, proofreader, grasses specialist, women’s activist.

Carmelita Chase Hinton (20 Apr 1890 – 16 Jan 1983 | Omaha NE – Concord MA) farmer, gardener, visionary, adventurer, progressive educator, founding director of The Putney School in Putney, Vermont.