04 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Frances Montresor Buchanan Allen Penniman (04 Apr 1760 – 1834 | New York NY – Burlington VT) botanist, gardener, illustrator, political activist / family member.

Dorothea Lynde Dix (04 Apr 1802 – 17 Jul 1887 | Hampden ME – Trenton NJ) nurse, author, mental health patient advocate, insane asylum activist / reformer.

Mary Jane Colter (04 Apr 1869 – 08 Jan 1958 | Pittsburgh PA – Santa Fe NM) artist, art teacher, architect, interior designer.

Mary Coffin Ware Dennett (04 Apr 1872 – 25 Jul 1947 | Worcester MA – Valatie NY) activist, author, pacifist, suffragist, sex educator.

Dorothy Lerner Gordon (04 Apr 1889 – 11 May 1970 | Odessa RU – New York NY) author, broadcaster, musician, youth advocate / activist.

01 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Martha Wadsworth Brewster (01 Apr 1710 – c. 1757 | Lebanon CT – Lebanon CT) poet, writer.

Mary Richardson Walker (01 Apr 1811 – 21 Nov 1877 | Baldwin ME – Forest Grove OR) diarist, frontier missionary to Spokan Indians, co-founded Columbia Maternal Association, one of first six women to travel over Rocky Mountains.

Agnes Repplier (01 apr 1855 – 15 nov 1950 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) author, essayist, biographer, cat lover / owner.

Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge (01 Apr 1866 – 30 Jul 1948 | Lexington KY – Chicago IL) author, social activist / scientist, higher education innovator, Progressive Era social reformer.

Aurelia Isabel Henry Reinhardt (01 Apr 1877 – 28 Jan 1948 | San Francisco CA – Palo Alto CA) peace activist, Unitarian moderator, Mills College president [1916 – 1943], prominent member / leader of numerous organizations.

27 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jane Franklin Mecom (27 Mar 1712 – 08 May 1794 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) milliner, innkeeper, letter writer, political family member, autobiographical author.

Jane Colden Farquhar (27 Mar 1724 – 10 Mar 1766 | New York NY – New York NY) botanist, illustrator, letter writer, first female botanist recognized in the New World.

Elleanor Eldridge (27 Mar 1784 – c. 1862 | Warwick RI – unknown) memoirist, landlord, property owner, pioneering African-American entrepreneur.

Virginia Louisa Minor (27 Mar 1824 – 14 Aug 1894 | Caroline County VA – St Louis MO) suffragist, social activist, co-founder / first president Woman’s Suffrage Association of Missouri.

Catherine [Kate] Fox (27 Mar 1837 – 02 Jul 1892 | Consecon ON – Brooklyn NY) folk figure, controversial spiritualist medium, considered one of the founders of modern spiritualist movement.

22 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Maria Claypoole Peale (22 Mar 1787 – 27 Mar 1866 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) still-life / miniature portrait painter.

Calista Robinson Jones (22 Mar 1839 – 28 Jan 1913 | Chelsea VT – Bradford VT) educator, civic / social activist, president of Woman’s Relief Corps, founding chair / fundraiser for Woods Public Library Book Committee in Bradford.

Laura Jean Libbey (22 Mar 1862 – 25 Oct 1924 | Brooklyn NY – Brooklyn NY) prolific ‘dime’ romance novelist.

Elsie Hart Wilcox (22 Mar 1879 – 30 Jun 1954 | Hanalei HI – Kauai HI) community activist, Grove Farm Homestead preservationist, first woman to serve in Territory of Hawaii Senate.

Jessie Ethel Sampter (22 Mar 1883 – 25 Nov 1938 | New York NY – Givat Brenner IS) poet, educator, lesbian, Zionist pioneer, contracted polio at age 12.

17 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Queen Kaʻahumanu (17 Mar 1768 – 05 Jun 1832 | Maui HI – Mānoa Valley HI) aka The Feathered Mantle, Kingdom of Hawai’i regent / queen consort.

Elizabeth [Eliza] Kirby Withington (17 Mar 1825 – 04 Mar 1877 | New York NY – Ione CA) portrait and landscape photographer.

Emily Sartain (17 Mar 1841 – 17 Jun 1927 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) engraver, portrait painter, mezzo-tint artist.

Cornelia Maria Clapp (17 Mar 1849 – 31 Dec 1934 | Montague MA – Mount Dora FL) author, academic, zoologist, Marine biologist, earned both first and second American PhD degrees awarded to a woman.

E. Alice Munn Austen (17 Mar 1866 – 09 Jun 1952 | Staten Island NY – Staten Island NY) photographer, landscape artist, master tennis player, first Staten Island woman to own a car.

16 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lucy Virginia French (16 Mar 1825 – 31 Mar 1881 | Accomack County VA – McMinnville TN) poet, author, songwriter, pen name L’Inconnue.

Anna B. Alcott Pratt (16 Mar 1831 – 13 Jul 1893 | Germantown PA – Concord MA) author, folk / literary family figure.

Clara Weaver Parrish (16 Mar 1861 – 11 Nov 1925 | Selma AL – New York NY) painter, illustrator, printmaker, stained glass window designer.

Sara Corning (16 Mar 1872 – 05 May 1969 | Chegoggin NS – Yarmouth NS) nurse, humanitarian, WWI Red Cross nurse, saved wartime orphans, founded orphanage on Island of Syros, graduate of Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Hanover, New Hamsphire.

Loja Saarinen (16 Mar 1879 – 21 Apr 1968 | Helsinki FI – Bloomfield Hills MI) author, sculptor, textile artist, Finnish-American, opened Studio Loja Saarinen, founded weaving department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, born Minna Carolina Mathilde Louise Gesellius.

11 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah R. Adamson Dolley (11 Mar 1829 – 27 Dec 1909 | Schuylkill Meeting PA – Rochester NY) social reformer, community organizer, women’s rights activist, second US female medical graduate, obstetrician / gynecologist.

Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson (11 Mar 1843 – 15 Feb 1896 | Hancock County MS – New Orleans LA) poet, lyricist, journalist, aka Pearl Rivers, newspaper manager.

Matilda [Tillie] Pierce Alleman (11 Mar 1848 – 15 Mar 1914 | Gettysburg PA – Philadelphia PA) memoirist, Civil War activist / participant / observer.

Helen Strong Carter (11 Mar 1866 – 28 May 1945 | Rochester NY – San Francisco CA) philanthropist, social activist, First Lady of Territory of Hawaii, established Strong-Carter Dental Clinic at Palama Settlement HI / Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester NY.

Beatrice Winser (11 Mar 1869 – 14 Sep 1947 | Newark NJ – Newark NJ) librarian, library / museum director, education / visual arts / women’s equal rights activist.

10 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Walter Chandler Coates (10 Mar 1829 – 24 Jul 1897 | Kennett Square PA – Kansas City MO) Quaker, suffragist, social / political activist, women’s club founder / leader, aka The Queen of Quality Hill.

Sarah Malinda [Sam] Pritchard Blalock (10 Mar 1839 – 09 Mar 1901 | Avery County NC – Watauga County NC) US Civil War female soldier, fought for both North and South.

Josephine [Ina] Donna Coolbrith (10 Mar 1841 – 29 Feb 1928 | Nauvoo IL – Berkeley CA) poet, writer, librarian, first-ever US State Poet Laureate.

Hallie Quinn Brown (10 Mar 1850 – 16 Sep 1949 | Pittsburgh PA – Wilberforce OH) writer, activist, educator, abolitionist, elocutionist, humanitarian, African-American, women’s rights activist.

Mary Mills Patrick (10 Mar 1850 – 25 Feb 1940 | Canterbury NH – Palo Alto CA) author, scholar, college president, autobiographer, earned PhD at Universitiy of Bern.

06 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anna Claypoole Peale (06 Mar 1791 – 25 Dec 1878 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) portrait miniaturist, still life painter.

Sarah Knox [Knoxie] Davis (06 Mar 1814 – 15 Sep 1835 | Vincennes IN – Saint Francisville LA) Confederate folk / political family figure.

Martha Burton Woodhead Williamson (06 Mar 1843 – 18 Mar 1922 | Rothwell UK – Los Angeles CA) editor, journalist, malacologist, WCTU member, letter correspondent, discovered / created names for 11 new mollusks, president of Southern California Press Club, president of Historical Society of Southern California, founding member of American Association of Conchologists.

Carrie Belle Kearney (06 Mar 1863 – 27 Feb 1939 | Flora MS – Jackson MS) author, activist, novelist, legislator.

Kathleen [Kitty] Biggar Eaton Cannell (06 Mar 1891 – 23 May 1974 | Boston MA – Boston MA) dancer, author, aka Rihani, expatriate, ‘static dance’ innovator, dance / fashion critic and correspondent, WWII foreign correspondent, autobiographical author.

04 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Frances [Ma-con-a-quah] Slocum (04 Mar 1773 – 09 Mar 1847 | Warwick RI – Peru IN) Quaker, folk figure, Delaware Indian captive / survivor / adopted member.

Rebecca Gratz (04 Mar 1781 – 27 Aug 1869 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) author, philanthropist, charitable worker, religious educator, letter correspondent.

Myrtilla Miner (04 Mar 1815 – 17 Dec 1864 | New York NY – Washington DC) educator, abolitionist, social activist, founder / director Normal School for Colored Girls [later DC Teachers College].

Anna Elizabeth Broomall (04 Mar 1847 – 04 Apr 1931 | Upper Chichester Township PA – Chester PA) Quaker, pioneering obstetrics physician / professor, curator / librarian Delaware County [PA] Historical Society.

Effie Carlton Crockett (04 Mar 1856 – 07 Jan 1940 | Rockland ME – Boston MA) actress, composer, singer-songwriter, composed “Rock-A-Bye Baby”.