03 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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Barbara Hauer Fritchie (03 Dec 1766 – 18 Dec 1862 | Lancaster PA – Frederick City MD) folk figure, American Civil War Union activist.

Margaret [Peggy] O’Neal Eaton (03 Dec 1799 – 08 Nov 1879 | Washington DC – Washington DC) folk / political figure, involved in US President Andrew Jackson Petticoat Affair.

Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord (03 Dec 1810 – 23 Nov 1879 | Charleston SC – Charleston SC) poet, author, suffragist, playwright, translator, political essayist.

Phoebe Apperson Hearst (03 Dec 1842 – 13 Apr 1919 | Franklin MO – Pleasanton CA) feminist, suffragist, philanthropist, anthropology museum founder, founding member of National Congress of Mothers, benefactor / director of Golden Gate Kindergarten Association, co-founded all-girls National Cathedral School in Washington, DC.

Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (03 Dec 1842 – 30 Mar 1911 | Dunstable MA – Boston MA) author, professor, environmental chemist, safety / industrial engineer, experimental researcher in domestic science, first to apply chemistry to study of nutrition, first American woman to obtain a degree in chemistry, first female student and professor at MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology], first American woman accepted to any school of science and technology.

26 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Moore Grimké (26 Nov 1792 – 23 Dec 1873 | Charleston SC – Boston MA) writer, lawyer, speaker, suffragist, abolitionist, feminist, women’s laws / legal activist.

Lilly Martin Spencer (26 Nov 1822 – 22 May 1902 | Exeter UK – New York NY) French-American artist, genre painter, born Angelique Marie Martin.

Ellen Gould Harmon White (26 Nov 1827 – 16 Jul 1915 | Gorham ME – Saint Helena CA) author, religious pioneer, Seventh Day Adventist co-founder / leader / visionary / prophetess.

Mary Edwards Walker (26 Nov 1832 – 21 Feb 1919 | Oswego NY – Oswego NY) surgeon, alleged spy, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war, only woman [as of 2015] ever awarded US Medal of Honor.

12 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Margaret Cochran Corbin (12 Nov 1751 – 16 Jan 1800 | Chambersburg PA – Highland Falls NY) aka Captain Molly, American Revolutionary War heroic vivandière, first-ever female US veteran disability pensioner.

Letitia Christian Tyler (12 Nov 1790 – 10 Sep 1842 | near Richmond VA – Washington DC) Southern belle, staunch Episcopalian, First Lady of Virginia, US Presidential First Lady.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (12 November 1815 – 26 October 1902 | Johnstown NY – New York NY) author, editor, essayist, speaker, abolitionist, social activist / reformer, women’s rights activist / leader. 

Malvina Sarah Black Waring (12 Nov 1842 – 06 Dec 1930 | Newberry SC – Platteville WI) serial novelist.

Hope Emily Allen (12 Nov 1883 – 01 Jul 1960 | Kenwood NY – Oneida NY) scholar of medieval history, discovered manuscript of the Book of Margery Kempe.

03 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Martha Laurens Ramsay (03 Nov 1759 – 10 Jun 1811 | Charleston SC – Charleston SC) diarist, geneaologist, letter correspondent, private memoirs published by husband six weeks after her death.

Isabella Macdonald Alden (03 Nov 1841 – 05 Aug 1930 | Rochester NY – Palo Alto CA) author, editor, diarist, aka The Pansy, short story writer, adult education activist.

Mary Hannah Krout (03 Nov 1851 – 27 May 1927 | Crawfordsville IN – Crawfordsville IN) editor, author, journalist, suffragist, international lecturer.

Rosalie Barrow Edge (03 Nov 1877 – 30 Nov 1962 | New York NY – Kempton PA) birder, socialite, suffragist, national parks proponent, avian preservationist, founded Hawk Mountain and Emergency Conservation Committee.

Grace Hubbard Bell Fortescue (03 Nov 1883 – 24 Jun 1979 | Washington DC – Arlington VA) socialite, convicted of kidnapping-murdering an innocent man for allegedly raping her daughter.

16 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Wiseman See (16 Sep 1854 – 31 Jul 1939 | Ontario CA – Ontario CA) candymaker, businesswoman.

Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin (16 Sep 1861 – 1947 | Charleston SC – Boston MA) teacher, inventor, patented Gong and Signal Chair for hotels, second black woman to receive US Patent [note: found no images of the inventor herself; image used is one of an unidentified 19th c. black woman].

Eva Lawrence Watson-Schütze (16 Sep 1867 – 01 May 1935 | Jersey City NJ – Chicago IL) painter, photographer, Photo-Secession movement co-founder.

Clara Edith Work Ayres (16 Sep 1880 – 17 May 1917 | Venice Township OH – onboard USS Mongolia, Atlantic Ocean) nurse, WWI US Red Cross nurse, grocery store owner / manager, one of first two US military women killed in WWI [Helen Burnett Wood the other].

Daisy Ann Peterkin (16 Sep 1884 – 12 Aug 1952 | St. Louis MO – Miami Beach FL) vaudeville toe-dancer, Ziegfield Follies dance member, aka Mademoiselle Dazie.

18 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Phoebe Yates Levy Pember (18 Aug 1823 – 04 Mar 1913 | Charleston SC – Pittsburgh PA) memoirist, medical pioneer, Civil War nurse, Confederate hospital administrator.

Hannah E. Barker Taylor (18 Aug 1835 – unknown | Fredericton NB – Pasadena CA) poet, singer, hymnist, English-Native American-Canadian, Woman’s Christian Temperance Union member.

Selma Kronold (18 Aug 1861 – 09 Oct 1920 | Krakow PL – New York NY) pianist, operatic soprano, music advocate, founded Catholic Oratorio Society of New York.

Jemima [Mina] MacKenzie (18 Aug 1872 – 27 Jan 1957 | Waterside NS – Pictou NS) humanitarian, medical missionary to India, founded Broadwell Christian Hospital and orphanage for children in India, adopted 44 children [21 reached adulthood].

Katherine Emilie Bashford (18 Aug 1885 – 03 Jun 1953 | Prescott AZ – Los Angeles CA) author, public and private gardens landscape architect, co-founder / first female president of southern California chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects [ASLA].

15 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anna L. Clapp (15 Aug 1814 – 03 Dec 1889 | Cambridge NY – Lee Center IL) Civil War nurse, Ladies Union Aid Society founder, Western Sanitary Commission president, female veteran nurse benefits / pensions activist / spokeswoman.

Ann Pamela Cunningham (15 Aug 1816 – 01 May 1875 | Rosemont Plantation SC – Rosemont Plantation SC) historical preservationist, founded The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union.

Biddy Mason (15 Aug 1818 – 16 Jan 1891 | Hancock GA – Los Angeles CA) social activist, humanitarian, philanthropist, businesswoman, nurse / midwife, freed African-American slave, founded travelers center / black elementary school / first A.M.E. Church in California.

Virginia Clemm Poe (15 Aug 1822 – 30 Jan 1847 | Baltimore MD – Fordham NY) literary folk figure, wife / first cousin of Edgar Allan Poe.

Mary Cunningham Logan (15 Aug 1838 – 22 Feb 1922 | Petersburg MO – Washington DC ) writer, editor, memoirist.

09 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Fanny Fern (09 Jul 1811 – 10 Oct 1872 | Portland ME – Manhattan NY) novelist, humorist, born Sara Payson Willis, children’s book author, pioneering female newspaper columnist for The New York Ledger.

Clara Louise Kellogg (09 Jul 1842 – 13 May 1916 | Sumterville SC – New Hartford CT) memoirist, operatic prima donna, opera company founder / director.

Dorothy Thompsom Kopf (09 Jul 1893 – 30 Jan 1961 | Lancaster NY – Lisbon PT) author, journalist, radio broadcaster, aka First Lady of American Journalism, during her life: Second Most Influential Woman in America.

Eunice Allen Lyons Sanborn (09 Jul 1895 – 31 Jan 2011 | Lake Charles LA – Cherokee TX) community activist, co-founded / funded Love’s Lookout Park in Cherokee County TX, supercentenarian [114 years, 195 days], oldest person in United States at time of her death.

Editta Rinaldo Sherman (09 Jul 1912 – 01 Nov 2013 | Philadelphia PA – New York NY) photographer, aka The Duchess of Carnegie Hall.

03 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Maria Martin Bachman (03 Jul 1796 – 18 Dec 1863 | Charleston SC – Columbia SC) artist, naturalist, Audubon illustrator.

Maria Amparo Maytorena Ruiz de Burton (03 Jul 1832 – 12 Aug 1895 | Loreto or La Paz CA – Chicago IL) author, novelist, playwright, feminist activist, political instigator, letter correspondent, first female Mexican-American author to publish in English.

Sarah Pratt [Sally] McLean Greene (03 Jul 1856 – 29 Dec 1935 | Simsbury CT – Lexington MA) poet, novelist.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (03 Jul 1860 – 17 Aug 1935 | Hartford CT – Pasadena CA) poet, novelist, lecturer, utopian feminist, social reformer, non-fiction writer, magazine editor, commercial artist.

Caroline Furness Jayne (03 Jul 1873 – 23 Jun 1909 | Philadelphia PA – Wallingford PA) author, ethnologist, research focus on string figures.

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.