07 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ann Mayes Rutledge (07 Jan 1813 – 25 Aug 1835 | Henderson KY – New Salem IL) US folk figure, aka [US President Abraham] Lincoln’s First Love.

Julia Thompson von Stosch Schayer (07 Jan 1842 – 29 Mar 1928 | Deering ME – Bronxville NY) short fiction author.

Louise Imogen Guiney (07 Jan 1861 – 02 Nov 1920 | Roxbury MA – Chipping Campden UK) poet, editor, essayist.

Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer (07 Jan 1873 – 24 Jun 1943 | Allentown PA – Nashville TN) painter, illustrator, printmaker, white-line woodcut creator / innovator.

Florence Winger Bagley (07 Jan 1874 – 1952 | Clay Lick PA – US) author, psychologist, Fechner’s color aesthetics specialist, independent psychology researcher.

06 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

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Rebecca Webb Pennock Lukens (06 Jan 1794 – 10 Dec 1854 | Marlboro Township PA – Coatesville PA) Quaker, mill owner / manager, first US female industrial CEO, autobiographical author.

Charlotte Endymion Porter (06 Jan 1857 – 16 Jan 1942 | Towanda PA – Melrose MA) poet, editor, writer, translator, literary critic.

Elisabeth Mills Reid (06 Jan 1858 – 30 Apr 1931 | New York NY – Nice FR) social activist, philanthropist, women’s arts / academics advocate.

Frances Saville (06 Jan 1862 – 08 Nov 1935 | San Francisco CA – Belmont CA) operatic lyric soprano.

Caroline [Caro] Dana Blymyer Dawes (06 Jan 1866 – 03 Oct 1957 | Cincinnati OH – Evanston IL) US Second Lady, social / charity activist, natural and adoptive mother.

01 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jane Frazier [or Fraser] (01 Jan 1735 – 14 Apr 1815 | Winchester VA – Schellsburg PA) survivor, memoirist, captured / escaped Native Americans.

Elizabeth Griscom Claypoole Ross (01 Jan 1752 – 30 Jan 1836 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) American Revolutionary War folk figure, seamstress for First Flag of the United States, best known as Betsy Ross.

Harriet E. Bishop (01 Jan 1817 – 08 Aug 1883 | Panton VT – St Paul MN) writer, educator, suffragist, temperance activist.

Amelia Stewart Knight (01 Jan 1817 – 25 Jan 1898 | Boston MA – Vancouver WA) diarist, memoirist, Northwest Oregon Trail pioneer / settler.

Lucy Lambert Hale (01 Jan 1841 – 15 Oct 1915 | Dover NH – Warren NH) society belle, engaged to John Wilkes Booth, later political wife / hostess to Senator Chandler.