13 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Theodosia Johnes Ford (13 Sep 1741 – 31 Aug 1824 | Southampton NY – Morristown NJ) historical folk figure, land / estate manager, hosted winter headquarters for Washington family / guests / troops.

Laura Ingersoll Secord (13 Sep 1775 – 17 Oct 1868 | Great Barrington, Province of Massachusetts Bay – Village of Chippewa ON) folk figure, Canadian heroine, cookbook author.

Emily Bradley Neal Haven (13 Sep 1827 – 23 Aug 1863 | Hudson NY – Mamaroneck NY) children’s author, magazine editor, popular Episcopal writer, pen names: Cousin Alice, Alice B. Neal, Alice B. Haven, Clara Cushman, Cornelia Holyroyd, Mrs Manners.

Pamela Clemens Moffett (13 Sep 1827 – 31 Aug 1904 | Jamestown TN – Greenwich CT) musician, music teacher, literary family figure.

Marian [Clover] Hooper Adams (13 Sep 1843 – 06 Dec 1885 | Boston MA – Washington DC) hostess, socialite, pioneering portrait photographer.

04 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Wells Morris (04 Sep 1764 – 06 Nov 1819 | Burlington County NJ – Wellsboro PA) Quaker, settler, namesake of Wellsboro PA [note: middle image is painting of anonymous Quaker woman].

Sarah Childress Polk (04 Sep 1803 – 14 Aug 1891 | Murfreesboro TN – Nashville TN) US First Lady, active Presbyterian, Presidential consultant, hosted first annual White House Thanksgiving Dinner.

Phoebe Cary (04 Sep 1824 – 31 Jul 1871 | Mount Healthy OH – Newport RI) poet, lyricist, co-author with sister Alice Cary.

Marion Juliet Mitchell (04 Sep 1836 – 30 Jan 1917 | Buffalo NY – Janesville WI) poet, graduate of first chartered US women’s college Ingham Institute in Le Roy NY.

Isabella Preston (04 Sep 1881 – 31 Jan 1965 | Lancaster UK – Georgetown ON) British-Canadian author, civil servant, plant hybridist, horticulturist, first female professional hybridist in Canada, aka Queen of Ornamental Horticulture.

16 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Porter (16 Aug 1813 – 18 Feb 1900 | Farmington CT – Farmington CT) educator, women’s suffrage opponent, promoter of legal reforms for women, founder of elite private Miss Porter’s School for girls.

Helen Mary Knowlton (16 Aug 1832 – 05 May 1918 | Littleton MA – Needham MA) artist, author, spiritual writer, art instructor.

Mary Hall (16 Aug 1843 – 15 Nov 1927 | Marlborough CT – Marlborough CT) poet, suffragist, philanthropist, mathematics teacher, first CT Notary, first female lawyer admitted to Connecticut Bar, founded boys’ charity Good Will Club [became Boys’ Club USA].

Helen Hartley Jenkins (16 Aug 1860 – 24 Apr 1934 | New York NY – Morristown NJ) heiress, philanthropist, funded Barnard College and Columbia University, president of Hartley House board, tenement reform activist, settlement house builder.

Jeannette Augustus Marks (16 Aug 1875 – 15 Mar 1964 | Chattanooga TN – Westport NY) author, lecturer, educator, feminist.

29 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Hannah Maria Libby Smith (29 Jun 1828 – 21 Sep 1906 | Ossipee NH – Provo UT) bobbin doffer, rug weaver, needleworker, historical figure, Mormon pioneer / educator.

Celia Laighton Thaxter (29 Jun 1835 – 25 Aug 1894 | Portsmouth NH – Appledore Island ME) poet, gardener, short story writer.

Julia Clifford Lathrop (29 Jun 1858 – 15 Apr 1932 | Rockford IL – Rockford IL) author, social worker, educational reformer, mother / child rights activist, Director US Children’s Bureau, first-ever female to head federal US bureau.

Emma Azalia Hackley (29 Jun 1867 – 13 Dec 1922 | Murfreesboro TN – Detroit MI) singer, author, lecturer, musician, child prodigy, school teacher, music publisher, civic / social / civil rights activist, founding executive director Colored Women’s League, founded Hackley Choral Society and Voice Normal Institute.

Elizabeth Lehman Myers (29 Jun 1869 – 06 Jan 1936 | Bethlehem PA – Bethlehem PA) historical author / essayist.

20 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Smith Garrett (20 Jun 1839 – 18 Jul 1925 | Philadelphia PA – North Conway NH) author, deaf educator, proponent of speech for deaf [in addition to sign language].

Susan Marcia Oakes Woodbury (20 Jun 1865 – 07 Nov 1913 | South Berwick ME – Ogunquit ME) artist, author, painter, Dutch portrait specialist, Dutch Masters art commentator.

Leah Baird (20 Jun 1883 – 03 Oct 1971 | Champaign IL – Los Angeles CA) silent actress, film producer, screenwriter.

Erica Tietze-Conrat (20 Jun 1883 – 12 Dec 1958 | Vienna AT – New York NY) Austrian-American, author, academic, art historian, one of first women to study art history.

Mary Ross Calvert (20 Jun 1884 – 25 Jun 1974 | Nashville TN – Nashville TN) author, astro-photographer, astronomical computer, high-level assistant at Yerkes Observatory, Yerkes photographic plate collection curator.

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.

11 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anne Newport Royall (11 Jun 1769 – 01 Oct 1854 | Baltimore MD – Washington DC) writer, publisher, reformer, journalist, possibly first professional female journalist in America.

Caroline Le Gresley LeSueur (11 Jun 1814 – 01 Oct 1898 | Jersey, Channel Islands – St Johns AZ) Mormon, farmer, pioneer, settler, co-founder of St. Johns, Arizona.

Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens (11 Jun 1832 – 08 Aug 1899 | La Grange TN – Edgefield SC) author, socialite, flag seamstress, Confederate icon, aka Queen of the Confederacy.

Mary Leslie (11 Jun 1842 – 01 Mar 1920 | UK – Toronto ON) artist, art teacher, columnist for McLure Syndicate, conducted Leslie’s College for Women, pen names: J.T.J., James Thomas Jones.

Olivia America Davidson Washington (11 Jun 1854 – 09 May 1889 | Mercer WV – Boston MA) teacher, Tuskegee Institute co-founder.

07 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Susan Elizabeth Blow (07 Jun 1843 – 27 Mar 1916 | St Louis MO – New York NY) author, educator, kindergarten founder, children’s education activist, aka The Mother of American Kindergarten.

Alice Luann Moore Hubbard (07 Jun 1861 – 07 May 1915 | Wales NY – off the coast of Ireland) writer, feminist, original Roycrofter, lost at sea onboard torpedoed ocean liner Lusitania.

Alice Van Vechten Brown (07 Jun 1862 – 16 Oct 1949 | Hanover NH – Middletown NJ) author, art educator, art historian, created first US courses in museum training [1911] and modern art [1927] .

Alice Nielsen (07 Jun 1872 – 08 Mar 1943 | Nashville TN – Far Rockaway NY) operatic lyric soprano.

Carmela Anna Ponselle (07 Jun 1887 – 13 Jun 1977 | Schenectady NY – New York NY) operatic mezzo-soprano.

01 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Abby Hadassah Smith (01 Jun 1797 – 23 Jul 1879 | Glastonbury CT – Glastonbury CT) suffragist, tax resister, women’s property activist.

Caroline Lee Hentz (01 Jun 1800 – 11 Feb 1856 | Lancaster MA – Marianna FL) author, novelist, playwright, literary figure, anti-abolitionist, short story writer.

Harriet Ruggles Gold Boudinot (01 Jun 1805 – 15 Aug 1836 | Cornwall CT – New Echota GA) folk figure, letter correspondent, Cherokee marriage partner / pioneer.

Emily Donelson (01 Jun 1807 – 19 Dec 1836 | Donelson TN – Nashville TN) shortest-lived US First Lady, White House Hostess.

Anna Eliot Ticknor (01 Jun 1823 – 05 Oct 1896 | Boston MA – Boston MA) author, educator, public library advocate, home education activist, founded Society to Encourage Studies at Home / first correspondence school in the US.

25 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Katherine Lucinda Sharp (25 May 1865 – 01 Jun 1914 | Elgin IL – Elgin IL) librarian, founded innovative University of Illinois Library School, helped to professionalize librarianship standards.

Cary Fink Angulo Baynes (25 May 1883 – 1977 | Mexico City MX – Zurich CH) American author, translator, pioneer Jungian, I Ching specialist.

Leta Stetter Hollingworth (25 May 1886 – 27 Nov 1939 | Dawes County NE – New York NY) author, psychological researcher.

Sue Shelton White (25 May 1887 – 06 May 1943 | Henderson TN – Washington DC) editor, author, lawyer, aka Miss Sue, reformer, suffragist, public official, National Women’s Party leader.

Clara Porset (25 May 1895 – 17 May 1981 | Matanzas CU – Los Angeles CA) Cuban-American design educator, interior designer, furniture designer, female designer scholarship award founder, bequeathed The Clara Porset Library [best design library in Mexico].