25 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Jane Lathrop Stanford (25 Aug 1828 – 28 Feb 1905 | Albany NY – Oahu HI) arts activist, educational leader, women’s rights advocate, Stanford University co-founder, allegedly murdered by accumulated strychnine poisoning.

Chloe Annette Buckel (25 Aug 1833 – 17 Aug 1912 | Warsaw NY – Oakland CA) Civil War nurse, pioneering surgeon / physician, one of the first female doctors in California, founded Hospital for Women and Children in San Francisco.

Ellen Goodell Smith (25 Aug 1835 – 03 Nov 1906 | Belchertown MA – Brooklyn NY) author, teacher, vegetarian, physician, hydrotherapist, co-founded first hydropathic sanitarium in St. Paul MN.

Martha Hale Shackford (25 Aug 1875 – 11 Jan 2013 | Dover NH – Wellesley MA) poet, editor, author, textbook writer, professor of English literature.

Louise Emerson Ronnebeck (25 Aug 1901 – 17 Feb 1980 | Philadelphia PA – Denver CO) painter, teacher, New Deal / WPA muralist, professor of drawing and painting.

23 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Moody Emerson (23 Aug 1774 – 01 May 1863 | Concord MA – Concord MA) poet, author, literary family member, mentor to her nephew Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Lillie Hitchcock Coit (23 Aug 1843 – 22 Jul 1929 | Mobile AL – San Francisco CA) folk figure, aka Firebell Lil, philanthropist, cookbook author, Coit Tower benefactor, San Francisco Volunteer Firefighters patroness, born Elizabeth Wyche Hitchcock.

Sarah Frances Whiting (23 Aug 1847 – 12 Sep 1927 | Wyoming NY – Wilbraham MA) author, essayist, physicist, astronomer, first professor of physics at Wellesley College, funded Whiting Observatory at Wellesley.

Amelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (23 Aug 1863 – 15 Jun 1945 | Richmond VA – Cismont VA) poet, novelist, playwright.

Edith Lake Wilkinson (23 Aug 1868 – 19 Jul 1957 | Wheeling WV – Huntington WV) lesbian, studied at Arts Student League of New York, degree from Columbia Teacher’s College [1905], Provincetown MA artist / printmaker, committed to mental hospitals [from 1924 till her death] [Note: middle image from HBO documentary © 2022 Greenie Films and Little Mama, Inc.].

22 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Lewis Kinnan (22 Aug 1763 – 12 Mar 1848 | Basking Ridge NJ – Basking Ridge NJ) pioneer, survivor, memoirist, Shawnee captive, sold to Delaware natives, rescued after three years’ captivity.

Emily Chubbuck Judson (22 Aug 1817 – 01 Jun 1854 | Eaton NY – Hamilton NY) poet, writer, memoirist, missionary, aka Fanny Forester.

Helen Mar Kimball Whitney (22 Aug 1828 – 13 Nov 1896 | Mendon NY – Salt Lake City UT) diarist, pioneer, survivor, one of Latter Day Saints founder’s wives.

Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (22 Aug 1856 – 09 Feb 1942 | San Francisco CA – San Francisco CA) artist, biographer, memoirist, portrait painter, autobiographical author.

Georgia Eva Cayvan (22 Aug 1857 – 19 Nov 1906 | Bath ME – Flushing NY) fortune-teller, stage actress, women’s rights activist, stage theatre company founder, one of first women to wear a glass dress.

20 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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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.

19 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Ellen Pleasant (19 Aug 1817 – 04 Jan 1904 | Philadelphia PA – San Francisco CA) abolitionist, social activist, entrepreneur, philanthropist, aka Mammy Pleasant, Mother of Human Rights in California.

Antoinette B. Hollister (19 Aug 1863 – 13 Jun 1943 | Chicago IL – Tarpon Springs FL) painter, professor, writer / lecturer about art for children.

Elsie Ferguson (19 Aug 1883 – 15 Nov 1961 | New York NY – New London CT) author, actress, aka The Aristocrat of the Silent Screen.

Grace Hutchins (19 Aug 1885 – 15 Jul 1969 | Boston MA – New York NY) author, activist, communist, pamphleteer, radical labor economist.

Maija Grotell (19 Aug 1899 – 06 Dec 1973 | Helsinki FI – Pontiac MI) author, ceramicist, ceramics teacher, aka The Mother of American Ceramics.

16 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Sarah Porter (16 Aug 1813 – 18 Feb 1900 | Farmington CT – Farmington CT) educator, women’s suffrage opponent, promoter of legal reforms for women, founder of elite private Miss Porter’s School for girls.

Helen Mary Knowlton (16 Aug 1832 – 05 May 1918 | Littleton MA – Needham MA) artist, author, spiritual writer, art instructor.

Mary Hall (16 Aug 1843 – 15 Nov 1927 | Marlborough CT – Marlborough CT) poet, suffragist, philanthropist, mathematics teacher, first CT Notary, first female lawyer admitted to Connecticut Bar, founded boys’ charity Good Will Club [became Boys’ Club USA].

Helen Hartley Jenkins (16 Aug 1860 – 24 Apr 1934 | New York NY – Morristown NJ) heiress, philanthropist, funded Barnard College and Columbia University, president of Hartley House board, tenement reform activist, settlement house builder.

Jeannette Augustus Marks (16 Aug 1875 – 15 Mar 1964 | Chattanooga TN – Westport NY) author, lecturer, educator, feminist.

15 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Anna L. Clapp (15 Aug 1814 – 03 Dec 1889 | Cambridge NY – Lee Center IL) Civil War nurse, Ladies Union Aid Society founder, Western Sanitary Commission president, female veteran nurse benefits / pensions activist / spokeswoman.

Ann Pamela Cunningham (15 Aug 1816 – 01 May 1875 | Rosemont Plantation SC – Rosemont Plantation SC) historical preservationist, founded The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union.

Biddy Mason (15 Aug 1818 – 16 Jan 1891 | Hancock GA – Los Angeles CA) social activist, humanitarian, philanthropist, businesswoman, nurse / midwife, freed African-American slave, founded travelers center / black elementary school / first A.M.E. Church in California.

Virginia Clemm Poe (15 Aug 1822 – 30 Jan 1847 | Baltimore MD – Fordham NY) literary folk figure, wife / first cousin of Edgar Allan Poe.

Mary Cunningham Logan (15 Aug 1838 – 22 Feb 1922 | Petersburg MO – Washington DC ) writer, editor, memoirist.

14 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Charlotte Fowler Wells (14 Aug 1814 – 04 Jun 1901 | Cohocton NY – West Orange NJ) author, phrenologist, journal publisher.

May Dickson Exall (14 Aug 1859 – 28 Sep 1936 | McKinney TX – Dallas TX) civic leader, clubwoman, arts activist, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts co-founder.

Florence Pullman Lowden (14 Aug 1868 – 05 Jul 1937 | Chicago IL – Chicago IL) travel writer, philanthropist, First Lady of Illinois.

Vivian Louise Aunspaugh (14 Aug 1869 – 09 Mar 1960 | Bedford VA – Dallas TX) painter, art editor, art teacher, art school founder.

Leila Edna Andrews (14 Aug 1876 – 28 Apr 1954 | North Manchester IN – Oklahoma City OK) author, pediatrician, pediatrics professor, hematologist, one of first two female members of American College of Physicians [ACP].

10 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Sargeant Neal Gove Nichols (10 Aug 1810 – 30 May 1884 | Goffstown NH – London UK) writer, lecturer, educator, suffragist, visionary, vegetarian, health reformer, autobiographer, hydrotherapy advocate, women’s rights activist.

Eliza Frances Andrews (10 Aug 1840 – 21 Jan 1931 | Washington GA – Rome GA) diarist, botanist, essayist, educator, memoirist, textbook author, magazine writer.

Mary Artemesia Lathbury (10 Aug 1841 – 20 Oct 1913 | Manchester NY – East Orange NJ) hymnist, children’s book author, religious periodical writer.

Gertrude Bloede (10 Aug 1845 – 14 Aug 1945 | Dresden DEU – Baldwin NY) German-born American poet, pen name: Stuart Sterne.

Mary [C. C.] Carroll Craig Bradford (10 Aug 1856 – 15 Jan 1938 | Brooklyn NY – Denver CO) politician, suffragist, Colorado State Superintendent of Public Instruction, first female delegate to 1908 Democratic National Convention, president: National Education Association, Colorado Federation of Women’s Clubs, and Colorado Springs Equal Suffrage Association.

09 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (09 Aug 1757 – 09 Nov 1854 | Albany NY – Washington DC) archivist, social activist, orphanage founder / supporter.

Mary Randolph (09 Aug 1762 – 23 Jan 1828 | Manakin VA – Washington DC) cookbook / housekeeping author, women’s domestic freedom advocate.

Dorothea Klumpke Roberts (09 Aug 1861 – 05 Oct 1942 | San Francisco CA – San Francisco CA) author, astronomer, Director of Bureau of Measurements at Paris Observatory, endowed Klumpke-Roberts Award for service to astronomy / astronomy education.

Janie Porter Barrett (09 Aug 1865 – 27 Aug 1948 | Athens GA – Hampton VA) educator, social reformer, welfare worker, founded Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, Virginia State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs founder / leader.

Lula May Hefner (09 Aug 1874 – 19 Jul 1954 | Nowata OK – Oklahoma City OK) milliner, Cherokee, businesswoman, first female oil driller in Oklahoma, first female to drill oil on her own property in Oklahoma, owned largest car garage in Oklahoma.