24 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis (24 Jun 1831 – 29 Sep 1910 | Washington PA – Mount Kisco NY) author, novelist, journalist.

Elizabeth [Lizzie] Sewall Alcott (24 Jun 1835 – 14 Mar 1858 | Boston MA – Concord MA) writer, literary figure, literary family member.

Ruth Miriam Randall Edström (24 Jun 1867 – 05 Oct 1944 | Wilmington IL – Stockholm SE) peace activist, Unitarian, expatriate, Swedish-American, women’s rights activist, participated in International Women’s Congress, worked on Hague peace conference.

Caroline Ellen Furness (24 Jun 1869 – 09 Feb 1936 | Cleveland OH – New York NY) author, astronomer, astronomy professor at Vassar College, women’s education advocate, first female PhD in Astronomy from Columbia University.

Beatrice Tonnesen (24 Jun 1871 – 12 May 1958 | Winneconne WI – Oshkosh WI) artist, inventor, photographer, Mars Ware sculpture innovator, pioneer in picture calendar photographs, developed process for silhouette photographs, pioneered use of live models in print advertising.

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.

08 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Lucinda Bonney Rambaut (08 Jun 1816 – 24 Jul 1900 | Hamilton NY – Hamilton NY) educator, women’s school founder, Native American rights advocate.

Sarah Ellen Harding Baker (08 Jun 1847 – 30 Mar 1886 | Cincinnati OH – Johnson County IA) teacher, astronomer, creative quilter, known for her Solar System Quilt.

Ida Saxton McKinley (08 Jun 1847 – 26 May 1907 | Canton OH – Canton OH) bank teller, ‘secret’ epileptic, US Presidential First Lady.

Marion [Mamie] Graves Anthon Fish (08 Jun 1853 – 25 May 1915 | Staten Island NY – Glenclyffe NY) socialite, high society leader, self-styled fun-maker.

Adah Louise Sutton Saalfield (08 Jun 1860 – 18 Nov 1935 | Brooklyn NY – Akron OH) poet, author, children’s writer, women’s rights activist, animal welfare advocate, pen names: Ada Sutton, Adah Louise Sutton, Louise A. Field.

02 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Helen Herron [Nellie] Taft (02 Jun 1861 – 22 May 1943 | Cincinnati OH – Washington DC) memoirist, US Presidential First Lady, patroness of music, planted / arranged first plantings of Japanese cherry trees gifted to Washington DC.

Marjorie Hill Allee (02 Jun 1890 – 30 Apr 1945 | Carthage IN – Indiana US) fiction / nonfiction writer, young adult novelist, children’s book author.

Dorothy West (02 Jun 1907 – 16 Aug 1998 | Boston MA – Boston MA) novelist, short story writer, African-American, member of Harlem Renaissance.

Alice Jackson Stuart (02 Jun 1913 – 13 Jun 2001 | Richmond VA – Richmond VA) teacher, professor, educational advocate, first female African-American to apply [and be denied] for graduate school at University of Virginia, earned Master of Arts at Columbia University.

Betty Wishnick-Freeman (02 Jun 1921 – 03 Jan 2009 | Chicago IL – Los Angeles CA) art collector, photographer, philanthropist, biographical author, documentary filmmaker.

29 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (29 May 1845 – 05 Dec 1921 | Pawley’s Island SC – Charleston SC) author, diarist, publisher, rice farmer, slave holder, aka Patience Pennington.

Susan Elizabeth Frazier (29 May 1864 – 03 Feb 1924 | New York NY – New York NY) activist, African-American, public school educator, women’s issues / civil rights thought leader, president WWI Women’s Auxiliary of Old Fifteenth National Guard black troop.

Elizabeth Cutter Morrow (29 May 1873 – 24 Jan 1955 | Cleveland OH – Englewood NJ) poet, children’s book writer, first female Head of Smith College, grandmother of kidnapped baby Charles Lindbergh Jr.

Leila Mechlin (29 May 1874 – 04 May 1949 | Washington DC – Washington DC) author, art critic, manager, editor of The American Magazine of Art.

Helen Woodard Atwater (29 May 1876 – 26 Jun 1947 | Somerville MA – Washington DC) editor, author, home economics specialist, full-time editor of the Journal of Home Economics, aka The First Lady of American Nutrition.

15 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Susan Barber Lloyd Jones (15 May 1832 – 26 Oct 1911 | Rome NY – Madison WI) author, speaker, activist, hymnist, Unitarian, clubwoman, women’s ministerial activist.

Mary Colman Wheeler (15 May 1846 – 10 Mar 1920 | Concord MA – Providence RI) artist, women’s art teacher, founder / first head Wheeler School.

Susanne Vandegrift Moore (15 May 1848 – 1926 | Bucks County PA – Jacksonville FL) editor, publisher, weekly St. Louis Life owner / editor.

Helen Dawes Brown (15 May 1857 – 05 Sep 1941 | Concord MA – Montclair NJ) editor, novelist.

Emily Jordan Folger (15 May 1858 – 21 Feb 1936 | Ironton OH – Glen Cove NY) scholar, philanthropist, rare book collector, co-founded / funded Folger Shakespeare Library, third woman to receive honorary degree from Amherst College.

13 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Linda Gilbert (13 May 1847 – 24 Oct 1895 | Rochester NY – Mount Vernon NY) poet, inventor, welfare worker, prison reformer, prison library activist.

Ellen Spencer Mussey (13 May 1850 – 21 Apr 1936 | Geneva OH – Washington DC) lawyer, educator, women’s rights / law education activist, Spencerian Handwriting reformer / promoter.

Margaret Marshall Saunders (13 May 1861 – 15 Feb 1947 | Milton NS – Toronto ON) lecturer, romance novelist, children’s author, animal rights advocate.

Jenny Eakin Delony Rice (13 May 1866 – 01 Apr 1949 | Washington AR – Little Rock AR) painter, educator, aka Jenny Myrowitz.

Fay Kellogg (13 May 1871 – 10 Jul 1918 | Milton PA – Brooklyn NY) architect, steel construction specialist, pioneering female architect, women artists’ advocate.

10 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Anne Worthington King Peter (10 May 1800 – 06 Feb 1877 | Chillicothe OH – Cincinnati OH) artist, memoirist, patron of arts, philanthropist, Civil War Union nurse, Catholic convert / activist, founded Philadelphia School of Design for Women [now Moore College of Art & Design].

Lucy Louisa Flower (10 May 1837 – 27 Apr 1921 | Boston MA – Coronado CA) teacher, draftswoman, social justice activist, Chicago Board of Education member, launched Lake Geneva Fresh Air Association, founded women / children’s legal aid bureau, first woman elected to Illinois state office.

Mary [May] French Sheldon (10 May 1847 – 10 Feb 1936 | Bridgewater PA – West Kensington UK) author, explorer, essayist, publisher, translator, short fiction writer.

Emma Payne Erskine (10 May 1854 – 04 Mar 1924 | Racine WI – Tryon NC) author, peace activist, romance novelist, short story writer, patriotic Christian writer.

Sue Hastings (10 May 1884 – 1977 | Monticello NY – Coral Gables FL) artisan, master puppeteer, professor of puppetry, founder / CEO Sue Hastings Marionettes Inc.

08 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Phillis Wheatley (08 May 1753 – 05 Dec 1784 | Gambia or Senegal AF – Boston MA) poet, letter correspondent, first female African-American published author.

Ella Elvira Gibson (08 May 1821 – 08 Mar 1901 | Winchendon MA – Barre MA) poet, editor, educator, essayist, Freethinker, pamphleteer, ordained minister, first female US Army chaplain.

Augusta Evans Wilson (08 May 1835 – 09 May 1909 | Columbus GA – Mobile AL) author, novelist, Southern literature pioneer.

Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg (08 May 1845 – 29 Mar 1937 | New Lisbon OH – Philadelphia PA) author, club woman, civic leader, social activist, genealogist, political family member.

Mary Alice Bird Babb (08 May 1850 – 21 Nov 1926 | Mount Pleasant IA – Aurora IL) women’s education activist, founding member Philanthropic Educational Organization [PEO].

04 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Elizabeth Surratt (04 May 1823 – 07 Jul 1865 | Waterloo MD – Washington DC) boarding house owner / operator, historical / political folk figure, tried as Lincoln assassination co-conspirator, first American female executed by hanging.

Julia Britton Hooks (04 May 1852 – 10 Mar 1942 | Frankfort KY – Memphis TN) pianist, social worker, civil rights leader, juvenile court officer, second female African-American US college graduate, founded Julia Hooks Cottage School and Julia Hooks School of Music.

Mary Ellis Peltz (04 May 1896 – 24 Oct 1981 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, editor, author, music / drama critic, founding editor Opera News magazine.

Joy Bright Hancock (04 May 1898 – 20 Aug 1986 | Wildwood NJ – Bethesda MD) pilot, WAVES activist, early female Naval officer, autobiographical author.

Bernice Mildred Goetz (04 May 1909 – 30 Dec 1958 | Cleveland OH – Brooklyn NY) poet, author, teacher, lecturer, explorer.