06 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Zerelda G. Wallace (06 Aug 1817 – 19 Mar 1901 | Bourbon KY – Jennings IN) author, suffragist, temperance leader, First Lady of Indiana.

Myrtle Fillmore (06 Aug 1845 – 06 Oct 1931 | Pagetown OH – Lees Summit MO) author, memoirist, school teacher, New Thought practitioner, Unity Church co-founder, née Mary Caroline Page, aka Mother of Unity.

Susie Baker King Taylor (06 Aug 1848 – 06 Oct 1912 | Liberty GA – Boston MA) memoirist, social activist, Civil War nurse, aka The Black Clara Barton.

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (06 Aug 1861 – 30 Sep 1948 | Norwich CT – Oyster Bay NY) US First Lady, social activist, knitter and needlework artist.

Elizabeth Robins (06 Aug 1862 – 08 May 1952 | Louisville KY – Brighton UK) actress, novelist, playwright, suffragist, pen name: C. E. Raimond.

05 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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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.

22 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Newton Woolsey Howland (22 Jul 1835 – 03 Jul 1917 | New York NY – Newport RI) author, memoirist, Civil War Union nurse, Howland Circulating Library co-founder.

Maria Beulah Woodworth-Etter (22 Jul 1844 – 16 Sep 1924 | Lisbon OH – Indianapolis IN) author, preacher, minister, healing evangelist, aka Mother of Pentecost.

Emma Lazarus (22 Jul 1849 – 19 Nov 1887 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, author, Georgist, playwright, short story writer.

Mary Williamson Averell Harriman (22 Jul 1851 – 07 Nov 1932 | New York NY – New York NY) patron of arts, philanthropist, funded eugenics records / mental retardation research, founded American Orchestral Society, financed Tri-National Exhibition of Contemporary Art.

Mother Marie Joseph Butler (22 Jul 1860 – 23 Apr 1940 | Ballynunnery IE – Tarrytown NY) Irish-American, born Johanna Butler, Roman Catholic nun, educator / school foundress, founded Mother Butler Mission Guilds, instituted retreat movement for Catholic laywomen.

19 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth [Betty] Zane McLAugusthlin Clark (19 Jul 1759 – 23 Aug 1823 | Moorefield VA – St Clairsville OH) pioneer, folk figure, Colonial heroine.

Catherine Troutman Simmons Broshears Maynard (19 Jul 1816 – 20 Oct 1906 | Meade County KY – Seattle WA) folk figure, pioneer, memoirist, social activist, Seattle WA co-founder.

Mary Ann Bickerdyke (19 Jul 1817 – 08 Nov 1901 | Mount Vernon OH – Bunker Hill KS) author, Civil War Union nurse, hospital administrator, aka Mother Bickerdyke, lifelong veterans’ advocate.

Lizbeth [Lizzie] Borden (19 Jul 1860 – 01 Jun 1927 | Fall River MA – Fall River MA) heiress, literary / folk figure, subject of films / books / plays / folk rhymes, accused and acquitted of murdering father and stepmother in sensational trial, later shunned and ostracized by Fall River community.

Narcissa Florence Foster Jenkins (19 Jul 1868 – 26 Nov 1944 | Wilkes-Barre PA – New York NY) pianist, singer, voice teacher, literary figure, amateur operatic soprano, aka ‘the world’s worst opera singer’.

17 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Eunice Newton Foote (17 Jul 1819 – 30 Sep 1888 | Goshen CT – Lenox MA) scientist, inventor, essayist, women’s rights campaigner, portait / landscape painter, early greenhouse effect researcher, signatory of Women’s Declaration of Sentiments.

Odille Morison (17 Jul 1855 – 21 Dec 1933 | Lax Kw’alaams BC – Metlakatla BC) Canadian linguist, translator, artifacts collector, First Nation Tsimshian leader.

Linda Anne Eastman (17 Jul 1867 – 05 Apr 1963 | Oberlin OH – Cleveland Heights OH) author, librarian, children’s library room innovator.

Louise Waterman Wise (17 Jul 1874 – 10 Dec 1947 | New York NY – New York NY) artist, Zionist, translator, social worker, women’s health activist.

Gladys Amanda Reichard (17 Jul 1893 – 25 Jul 1955 | Bangor PA – Flagstaff AZ) author, professor, anthropologist, Navajo culture and language specialist.

08 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Maria White Lowell (08 Jul 1821 – 27 Oct 1853 | Watertown MA – Cambridge MA) poet, reformer, translator, abolitionist, temperance activist, women’s rights advocate, letter correspondent, literary family member, married to poet James Russell Lowell.

Martha [Mittie] Stewart Bulloch Roosevelt (08 Jul 1835 – 14 Feb 1884 | Hartford CT – New York NY) political family member, mother of US President Theodore Roosevelt.

Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln (08 Jul 1844 – 02 Dec 1921 | South Attleboro MA – Boston MA) cooking teacher, cookbook author, domestic science pioneer, aka Mrs. D. A. Lincoln.

Ella Reeve Bloor (08 Jul 1862 – 10 Aug 1951 | Staten Island NY – Richlandtown PA) social reformer, political activist, children’s book writer, autobiographical author, aka Mother Bloor.

Wilma Lucille Van Slyck (08 Jul 1898 – 28 Jun 1982 | Cincinnati OH – West Covina CA) American landscape artist.

06 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill (06 Jul 1799 – 01 Jun 1879 | New Haven CT – Princeton NJ) juvenile fiction writer, girls’ / women’s domestic guidebook author.

Sophia Willard Dana Ripley (06 Jul 1803 – 04 Feb 1861 | Cambridge MA – Manhattan NY) Transcendentalist, Roman Catholic convert, co-founded Utopian community Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education in West Roxbury MA.

Elizabeth Sager Helm (06 Jul 1837 – 19 Jul 1925 | Union County OH – Portland OR) survivor, memoirist, Oregon Trail Pioneer, orphaned twice: biological parents on The Trail (1844) and adoptive parents on The Trail in Whitman Massacre (1847).

Maria Howard Weeden (06 Jul 1846 – 12 Apr 1905 | Huntsville AL – Huntsville AL) poet, artist, author.

Julia Hunt Catlin Park DePew Taufflieb (06 Jul 1864 – 17 Dec 1947 | Bennington VT – Cannes FR) socialite, philanthropist, WWI activist, first US woman awarded French Croix de Guerre and Legion d’Honneur.

05 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Hannah Clark Johnston Bailey (05 Jul 1839 – 23 Oct 1923 | Cornwall-on-Hudson NY – Portland ME) writer, lecturer, publisher, peace activist, pamphleteer, National Council of Women treasurer, Maine Women’s Suffrage Association president.

Frances Christine Tiernan (05 Jul 1846 – 24 Mar 1920 | Salisbury NC – Salisbury NC) author, novelist, aka Christian Reid.

Mary Augusta Jordan (05 Jul 1855 – 14 Apr 1941 | Ironton OH – New Haven CT) editor, author, lecturer, librarian, professor.

Wanda Landowska (05 Jul 1879 – 16 Aug 1959 | Warsaw PO – Lakeville CT) author, harpsichordist, musicologist, piano pedagogue, performing artist, first person to record Bach’s Goldberg Variations [1933].

Marjorie Stinson (05 Jul 1895 – 15 Apr 1975 | Fort Payne AL – Washington DC) aviation pioneer, aeronautical draftswoman, ninth female licensed US pilot, aviation training school co-owner / instructor, aka The Flying Schoolgirl.

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.

28 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mother Benedicta [Sybilla] Riepp (28 Jun 1825 – 15 Mar 1862 | Waal DEU – St. Cloud MN) Benedictine nun, educator, missionary to Pennsylvania Germans.

Eliza Edmunds Hewitt (28 Jun 1851 – 24 Apr 1920 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) writer, hymnist, educator, Sunday School superintendent.

Helen Francis Hood (28 Jun 1863 – 22 Jan 1949 | Chelsea MA – Brookline MA) pianist, composer, teacher.

Alice May Douglas (28 Jun 1865 – 06 Jan 1943 | Bath ME – Bath ME) poet, peace activist, children’s author, newspaper editor, founder and composer of Peace Makers’ Band, head of Women’s Christian Temperance Union’s Peace and Arbitration.

Grace Rainey Rogers (28 Jun 1867 – 09 May 1943 | Cleveland OH – Greenwich CT) heiress, art collector, philanthropist.