29 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Caroline Ardelia Yale (29 Sep 1848 – 02 Jul 1933 | Charlotte VT – Northampton MA) writer, lip-reading v. signing advocate, deaf educator, autobiographical author, Clarke School for the Deaf principal / administrator.

Sara Dary Armbruster (29 Sep 1862 – unknown | Philadelphia PA – Bala Cynwyd PA) realtor, publisher, businesswoman, women’s rights activist, published the weekly Woman’s Journal, founded the Women’s Exchange in Philadelphia [Note: image on right shows unnamed woman with a copy of Woman’s Journal].

Gertrude Barnum (29 Sep 1866 – 17 Jun 1948 | Chicago IL – Los Angeles CA) author, diarist, labor historian, social reformer, union organizer.

Emma Wold (29 Sep 1871 – 21 Jul 1950 | Norway SD – Washington DC) author, attorney, teacher, women’s rights expert, national disarmament delegate.

Naomi Norsworthy (29 Sep 1877 – 25 Dec 1926 | New York NY – New York NY) author, educator, child psychologist, first female faculty member at Columbia University.

31 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (31 Jan 1800 – 22 May 1842 | Sault Ste Marie MI – Dundas ON) Scots-Irish-Ojibwe poet, writer, pioneer, translator, aka Bamewawagezhikaquay [Woman of the Sound the Stars Make Rushing through the Sky].

Mabel Jacque Williamson Dwight (31 Jan 1875 – 04 Sep 1955 | Cincinnati OH – Pipersville PA) artist, portraitist, illustrator, lithographer, watercolorist, radical political activist, member American Artists’ Conference.

Myra Reynolds Richards (31 Jan 1882 – 28 Dec 1934 | Indianapolis IN – Indianapolis IN) American sculptor, teacher.

Ella Cara Deloria (31 Jan 1889 – 12 Feb 1971 | White Swan SD – Tripp SD) Yankton Dakota, linguist, novelist, educator, oral historian, ethnographer, anthropologist, Sioux historian, aka Aŋpétu Wašté Wiŋ [Beautiful Day Woman].

Clara Savage Littledale (31 Jan 1891 – 09 Jan 1956 | Belfast ME – New York NY) writer, editor, columnist.