08 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Esther Hobart Morris (08 Aug 1814 – 03 Apr 1902 | Tioga NY – Cheyenne WY) milliner, aka Mrs. Slack, women’s rights activist, first female US Judge / Justice of the Peace in Wyoming.

Julia Ann Wilbur (08 Aug 1815 – 06 Jun 1895 | Milan NY – Washington DC) nurse, Quaker, suffragist, abolitionist, Civil War diarist, member / secretary Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society.

Mary Blair Moody (08 Aug 1837 – 18 Aug 1919 | Castle Creek NY – New Haven CT) author, physician, women’s rights activist, one of first female physicians in New Haven CT.

Cora Bussey Hillis (08 Aug 1858 – 12 Aug 1924 | Bloomfield IA – St Cloud MN) educator, clubwoman, child welfare advocate.

Ruth VanSickle Ford (08 Aug 1897 – 18 Apr 1989 | Aurora IL – Aurora IL) artist, art instructor, social realist painter, co-founded Chicago Women’s Salon, owned Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, first IL female member of American Watercolor Society [1954], first female member of Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art [1960].

07 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis (07 Aug 1813 – 24 Aug 1876 | Bloomfield NY – Providence RI) educator, suffragist, publisher, abolitionist, founding member of New England Woman Suffrage Association.

Alice James (07 Aug 1848 – 06 Mar 1892 | New York NY – London UK) editor, diarist, history teacher, literary figure, letter correspondent.

Ellen Fitz Pendleton (07 Aug 1864 – 26 Jul 1936 | Westerly RI – Newton MA) mathematics professor, long-term president of Wellesley College, academic freedom advocate, first woman on panel to award American Peace Prize.

Florence Margaret Martus (07 Aug 1868 – 08 Feb 1943 | Chatham GA – Savannah GA) folk figure, lighthouse keeper, aka Savannah’s Waving Girl.

Amelia [Amy] Elizabeth du Pont (07 Aug 1875 – 16 Feb 1962 | Wilmington DE – Montecito CA) heiress, aka Miss Amy, philanthropist, founded Unidel Foundation, funded University of Delaware.

05 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Edith Dean Painter (05 Aug 1821 – 20 Jul 1899 | New Garden OH – Pasadena CA) Quaker, farmer, abolitionist, Underground Railroad conductor.

Clara Dorothy Bewick Colby (05 Aug 1846 – 07 Sep 1916 | Cheltenham UK – Palo Alto CA) writer, editor, teacher, suffragist, public speaker, equal rights activist, public library founder, newspaper founder / publisher.

Mary Ellen Richmond (05 Aug 1861 – 12 Sept 1928 | Belleville IL – New York NY) social work pioneer, Unitarian, first Social Caseworker, aka Mother of Professional Social Work, [with Jane Addams] founded professional social case work.

Mary Ritter Beard (05 Aug 1876 – 14 Aug 1958 | Indianapolis IN – Phoenix AZ) author, archivist, historian, memoirist, suffragist, woman’s historian, women’s rights activist.

Ruth Wheeler (05 Aug 1877 – 29 Sep 1948 | Plains PA – Poughkeepsie NY) author, chemist, nutritionist, professor, developed first college curriculum for study of dietetics and nutrition.

04 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Susanna Wright (04 Aug 1697 – 01 Dec 1784 | Lancashire UK – Wright’s Ferry PA) poet, pundit, author, pioneer, translator, landowner, entrepreneur, multi-linguist, first American female silk farmer / producer / exporter.

Clarissa C. Bryan Cook (04 Aug 1811 – 19 Feb 1879 | Sidney NY – Davenport IA) philanthropist, civic / religious / charitable activist, founded Clarissa Cook Library and Clarissa C. Cook Home for the Friendless [later Clarissa C. Cook Retirement Home].

Florence Newell Barbour (04 Aug 1866 – 24 Jul 1946 | Providence RI – Providence RI) pianist, lyricist, musician, composer.

Emily Helen Butterfield (04 Aug 1884 – 22 Mar 1958 | Algonac MI – Neebish Island MI) artist, editor, author, architect, feminist activist, children’s book writer, first licensed female architect in Michigan, pen-and-ink / watercolor illustrator.

Barbara Nachtrieb Grimes Armstrong (04 Aug 1890 – 18 Jan 1976 | San Francisco CA – Oakland CA) author, legal scholar, law professor, social insurance advocate.

03 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Graceanna Lewis (03 Aug 1821 – 25 Feb 1912 | West Chester PA – Media PA) author, suffragist, naturalist, illustrator, ornithologist, Underground Railroad activist.

Nina Clifford (03 Aug 1851 – 14 Jul 1929 | Chatham ON – Detroit MI) madam, folk figure, brothel owner, born Johanna Crow.

Caroline [Carrie] Celestia Ingalls Swanzey (03 Aug 1870 – 02 Jun 1946 | Montgomery KS – Pennington SD) typesetter, folk / literary / pioneer figure.

Sophia Kindrick Alcorn (03 Aug 1883 – 28 Nov 1967 | Stanford KY – Stanford KY) educator, deaf-blind disability rights activist, invented Tadoma Method and Alcorn Symbols, American Association for the Blind (AFB) advocate, first female elder of Stanford Presbyterian Church.

Margaret [Maggie] Kuhn (03 Aug 1905 – 22 Apr 1995 | Buffalo NY – Philadelphia PA) writer, social activist, elder rights advocate, Gray Panther founder, autobiographical author.

01 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Anne Willing Bingham (01 Aug 1764 – 11 May 1801 | Philadelphia PA – Bermuda) socialite, artist’s model, letter correspondent.

Esther Sumner Damon (01 Aug 1814 – 11 Nov 1906 | Bridgewater VT – Plymouth VT) farmer, lay nurse, school teacher, seamstress, last American Revolutionary War widow state pensioner in US.

Maria Mitchell (01 Aug 1818 – 28 Jun 1889 | Nantucket MA – Lynn MA) suffragist, professor, astronomer, first American woman to work as professional astronomer, discovered Miss Mitchell’s Comet [initially named C/1847 Ti, credited to an Italian man].

Ida Celanire Craddock (01 Aug 1857 – 16 Oct 1902 | Philadelphia PA – New York NY) occultist, Unitarian, free speech advocate, women’s rights activist, pastor / priestess of Church of Yoga, first female undergraduate at University of Pennsylvania, institutionalized for her radical books / beliefs / eroticism, ended life by suicide rather than be re-imprisoned.

Angela Diller (01 Aug 1877 – 01 May 1968 | Brooklyn NY – Stamford CT) pianist, author, teacher, Diller-Quaile School of Music co-founder.

31 Jul | Women’s Words & Works

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Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley (31 Jul 1793 – 26 Jul 1827 | Boston MA – Concord MA) scholar, educator, Unitarian, intellectual, letter correspondent.

Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge (31 Jul 1811 – 26 Aug 1890 | Philadelphia PA – Chicago IL) author, fundraiser, welfare worker, Civil War administrator of Chicago Sanitary Commission, co-founded Chicago Home for the Friendless.

Lydia Moss Bradley (31 Jul 1816 – 16 Jan 1908 | Vevay IN – Peoria IL) social activist, college founder, philanthropist, independent financial manager, founded Bradley Polytechnic Institute.

Sarah J.S. Tompkins Garnet (31 Jul 1831 – 17 Sep 1911 | Brooklyn NY – Brooklyn NY) author, educator, suffragist, seamstress, school principal, educational activist, first African-American woman to found Equal Suffrage League organization, first black woman principal in the New York City public school system.

Amelia Stone Quinton (31 Jul 1833 – 23 Jun 1926 | Jamesville NY – Ridgefield Park NJ) Native American rights activist / advocate / organizer, co-founded Women’s National Indian Association.

30 Jul | Women’s Words & Works

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Emma Millinda Gillett (30 Jul 1852 – 23 Jan 1927 | Princeton WI – Washington DC) lawyer, clubwoman, National Woman’s Party member, women’s law education activist / advocate, first female Notary Public appointed by US President.

Julia Henrietta Gulliver (30 Jul 1856 – 25 Jul 1940 Norwich CT – Eustis FL) author, educator, philosopher, Rockford College president, second US woman awarded PhD.

Lucy Angeline Bacon (30 Jul 1857 – 17 Oct 1932 | Pitcairn NY – San Francisco CA) artist, art teacher, American Impressionist.

Elizabeth Ross Haynes (30 Jul 1883 – 26 Oct 1953 | Mount Willing AL – New York NY) author, YWCA advocate, civil rights activist, social reformer / researcher.

Bertha Fanning Taylor (30 Jul 1883 – 03 Jul 1980 | New York NY – Norfolk VA) curator, painter, author, educator, art critic, illustrator, art historian.

29 Jul | Women’s Words & Works

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Isabella Marshall Graham (29 Jul 1742 – 27 Jul 1814 | Lanarkshire SCT – New York NY) Scottish-American educator, philanthropist, founded Society for Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children / one of first women’s societies to engage in active public benevolence and successfully petition for shares of public welfare funds.

Julia Gardiner Tyler (29 Jul 1820 – 10 Jul 1889 | East Hampton NY – Richmond VA) aka Lady Presidentress, Confederate plantation owner / overseer, first US Presidential First Lady to be photographed.

Caroline Frances Putnam (29 Jul 1826 – 14 Jan 1917 | Warren MA – Lottsburg VA) educator, abolitionist, Unitarian, civil rights activist, lifelong companion of Sallie Holley, co-founded Holley School for freed slaves.

Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (29 Jul 1861 – 14 Feb 1884 | Chestnut Hill MA – New York NY) political family figure, President Theodore Roosevelt’s first wife.

Theresa Mary Gowanlock Johnson (29 Jul 1863 – 12 Sep 1899 | Tintern ON – Lincoln ON) author, pioneer, Upper Canadian, Indian captive / survivor.

28 Jul | Women’s Words & Works

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Louise Amelia Knapp Clappe Smith (28 Jul 1819 – 09 Feb 1906 | Elizabeth NJ – Morristown NJ) author, memoirist, schoolteacher, letter correspondent, pen name: Dame Shirley.

Mary Osburn Adkinson (28 July 1843 – 29 June 1918 | Rush County OH – New Orleans LA) pastor’s wife, temperance reformer, sewing / dressmaking university instructor.

Louisine Waldron Elder Havemeyer (28 Jul 1855 – 06 Jan 1929 | New York NY – New York NY) feminist, suffragist, memoirist, art collector, artist’s model, philanthropist, patron of American Impressionist Mary Cassatt.

Alice Duer Miller (28 Jul 1874 – 22 Aug 1942 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, novelist, suffragist, screenwriter, women’s activist, active political observer.

Rachael Robinson Elmer (28 Jul 1878 – 13 Feb 1919 | Rokeby [now Ferrisburgh] VT – New York NY) artist, illustrator, art postcard painter, WWI poster artist, WWI Bird and Tree Club fundraiser, aka ‘The Woman who Changed the World of American Postcards.’