04 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Helen Stuart Campbell (04 Jul 1839 – 22 Jul 1918 | Lockport NY – Dedham MA) author, journalist, educator, literary editor, women’s labor activist, children’s short fiction writer.

Mary Edmonia Lewis (04 Jul 1844 – 17 Sep 1907 | Greenbush NY – London UK) sculptor, African-American Haitian-Mississauga Ojibwe, first African-American / Native American female to achieve international fame and recognition as fine arts sculptor.

Annie Haven Thwing (04 Jul 1851 – 05 Jun 1940 | Roxbury MA – Roxbury MA) Boston historian, nonfiction author, children’s book writer.

Nellie Grant Jones (04 Jul 1855 – 30 Aug 1922 | St Louis MO – Chicago IL) US Presidential daughter, social / literary figure.

Jessie A. Ackermann (04 Jul 1857 – 31 Mar 1951 | Frankfort IL – Pomona CA) writer, feminist, traveler, journalist, social reformer, American WCTU leader, second round-the-world missionary for World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.

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.

26 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Pierce (26 Jun 1767 – 19 Jan 1852 | Litchfield CT – Litchfield CT) educator, girls’ school founder, women’s education advocate.

Loreta Janeta Velazquez (26 Jun 1842 – 26 Jan 1923 | Havana CU – Washington DC) memoirist, Confederate Civil War spy / soldier, aka Lieutenant Harry Buford, died as Loreta J. Beard at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for the Insane.

Mary Abby Van Kleeck (26 Jun 1883 – 08 Jun 1972 | Glenham NY – Kingston NY) author, feminist, social activist, planned economy advocate.

Alice Leslie [Mopsie] Walker Kosmopoulos (26 Jun 1885 – 25 Jun 1954 | San Francisco CA – Santa Barbara CA) author, multi-linguist, archaeologist, leading expert of Neolithic Period in Southern Greece.

Elizabeth Denny Pierce Blegen (26 Jun 1888 – 21 Sep 1966 | Allegheny PA – Athens GR) author, classicist, educator, archaeologist, art history professor, assistant curator at Vassar’s Art Gallery.

25 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Harriet Mann Miller (25 Jun 1831 – 25 Dec 1918 | Auburn NY – Los Angeles CA) naturalist, birdwatcher, ornithologist, children’s writer, pen name Olive Thorne Miller.

Clara Whitehill Hunt (25 Jun 1871 – 10 Jan 1958 | Utica NY – Sudbury MA) teacher, librarian, author, advocate for children’s library services.

Sarah Birdsall Otis Edey (25 Jun 1872 – 17 Mar 1940 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, editor, suffragist, Girl Scout activist.

Rose Cecil O’Neill (25 Jun 1874 – 06 Apr 1944 | Wilkes-Barre PA – Springfield MO) author, illustrator, fine artist, comics artist, Kewpie Doll creator.

Katherine Kennicott Davis (25 Jun 1892 – 20 Apr 1980 | St Joseph MO – Littleton MA) pianist, lyricist, teacher, composer.

23 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anne Elizabeth McDowell (23 Jun 1826 – 30 Sep 1901 | Smyrna DE – Drexel Hill PA) editor, journalist, publisher, founded Woman’s Advocate weekly newspaper, founded McDowell Free Library for Women for workers at Wanamaker’s Department Store.

Agnes Dean Abbat (23 Jun 1847 – 01 Jan 1917 | New York NY – New York NY) artist, teacher, watercolorist, floral still life / landscape / coastal scene painter, second women elected to the American Water Color Society.

Louise Howland King Cox (23 Jun 1865 – 11 Dec 1945 | San Francisco CA – Windham CT) woodcarver, photographer, stained glass artist, children’s portrait painter.

Mabel Rivers Landrum Torrey (23 Jun 1886 – 01 Apr 1974 | Sterling CO – Ames IA) sculptor, ceramicist, children’s figure specialist, commissioned public sculptor.

Sarah Van Hoosen Jones (23 Jun 1892 – 1972 | Stony Creek MI – Rochester MI) author, breeder, civic leader, genetic researcher, first US female PhD in Animal Genetics.

21 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Theodosia Bartow Burr Alston (21 Jun 1783 – 29 Dec 1812 | Albany NY – lost at sea off coast of South Carolina) folk figure, letter correspondent, First Lady of South Carolina, US Vice Presidential daughter.

Minnie Dessau Louis (21 Jun 1841 – 12 Mar 1922 | Philadelphia PA – Manhattan NY) poet, author, educator, community leader, co-founder of National Council of Jewish Women.

Mary Salome Cutler Fairchild (21 Jun 1855 – 20 Dec 1921 | Dalton MA – Takoma Park MD) author, librarian, library activist / educator.

Martha Van Rensselaer (21 Jun 1864 – 26 May 1932 | Randolph NY – New York NY) author, editor, educator, domestic scientist, founding co-director Cornell College of Home Economics.

Mary Cromwell Jarrett (21 Jun 1876 – 04 Aug 1961 | Baltimore MD – New York NY) author, educator, researcher, psychiatric social worker, pioneer work with post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD].

19 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Tenney Gray (19 Jun 1833 – 11 Oct 1904 | Liberty PA – Kansas City KS) poet, editor, clubwoman, suffragist, fundraiser, philanthropist, cookbook publisher, editorial writer, aka Mother of the Woman’s Culture Club in Kansas.

Mary Sibbet Copley Thaw (19 Jun 1843 – 09 Jun 1929 | near Kittanning PA – Pittsburgh PA) heiress, philanthropist, funded archaeology research, female archaeologist advocate.

Mary Roxanna Platt Hatch (19 Jun 1848 – 28 Nov 1935 | Stratford NH – Santa Monica CA) editor, author, playwright, club woman, magazine writer, pen-name Mabel Percy and Mary R. P. Hatch.

Elizabeth Louise Clarke [Pyrnelle] Parnell (19 Jun 1850 – 26 Aug 1907 | Perry County AL – Birmingham AL) children’s / young adult novelist.

Elizabeth [Bessie] Marbury (19 Jun 1856 – 22 Jan 1933 | New York NY – New York NY) lesbian, literary agent, pioneering theatrical producer, modern commercial theatre business methods innovator.

18 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jane Lampton Clemens (18 Jun 1803 – 27 Oct 1890 | Columbia KY – Keokuk IA) literary family figure, mother of Samuel Clemens, portrayed as Aunt Polly in Tom Sawyer.

Frances [Fanny] Sargent Locke Osgood (18 Jun 1811 – 12 May 1850 | Boston MA – New York NY) poet, author, letter correspondent.

Helen Hinsdale Rich (18 Jun 1827 – 04 Sep 1914 | Antwerp NY – St. Joseph MO) poet, lecturer, suffragist, women’s rights activist, temperance worker, short fiction writer, aka Poet of the Adirondacks, first woman to stand for woman suffrage in St. Lawrence County NY.

Laura Adeline Muntz Lyall (18 Jun 1860 – 09 Dec 1930 | Radford UK – Toronto ON) visual artist, Canadian Impressionst, known for portraits of mothers and children.

Carolyn Wells (18 Jun 1862 – 26 Mar 1942 | Rahway NJ – New York NY) poet, author.

16 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Katherine Goddard (16 Jun 1738 – 12 Aug 1816 | Groton CT – Baltimore MD) editor, printer, publisher, Baltimore MD Post Office postmistress, first newspaper publisher in Providence RI, first to print US Declaration of Independence with names of signatories.

Jane [Jenny] Marsh Parker (16 Jun 1836 – 13 Mar 1913 | Milan NY – Rochester NY) fiction / nonfiction author.

Belle Brezing (16 Jun 1859 – 11 Aug 1940 | Lexington KY – Lexington KY) madam, folk figure, aka The American Magdalene, basis for Belle Watling in Gone with the Wind [Brezing’s last name had one ‘e’ — except on her headstone, where it was mispelled Breezing].

Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson (16 Jun 1891 – 06 Dec 1948 | Montreal QC – Montreal QC) painter, member of Beaver Hall Hill Group / Canadian Group of Painters.

Jennie Grossinger (16 Jun 1892 – 20 Nov 1972 | Baligrod AH- Liberty NY) hotelier, restaurateur, cookbook author.

14 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (14 Jun 1811 – 01 Jul 1896 | Litchfield CT – Hartford CT) poet, author, abolitionist, social reformer.

Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper Tyler (14 Jun 1816 – 29 Dec 1889 | New York NY – Montgomery AL) political family member, White House hostess / de facto First Lady for father-in-law US President John Tyler.

Cornelia Peake McDonald (14 Jun 1822 – 11 Jan 1909 | Alexandria VA – Louisville KY) author, Confederate Civil War diarist, aka One of the Devil Diarists of Winchester.

Sigourney Trask (14 Jun 1849 – 20 Mar 1936 | Spring Creek PA – Barcroft VA) physician, Methodist Episcopal Church missionary, first female missionary doctor at Foochow, China.

Ruth Imogen Stout (14 Jun 1884 – 22 Aug 1980 | Topeka KS – Redding CT) memoirist, nonfiction author, no-work gardening expert / innovator.