10 Jul | Women.Words.Work

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Frances Maria [Fanny] Mulligan Hill (10 Jul 1799 – 05 Aug 1884 | New York NY – Athens GR) pioneer educator, Episcopal missionary, co-founded children’s public school in Athens, later founded private girls’ school Hill Institute [now Hill Memorial: oldest continuously-operating children’s school in Greece].

Emma Hale Smith Bidamon (10 Jul 1804 – 30 Apr 1879 | Harmony Township PA – Nauvoo IL) first wife of Joseph Smith, Latter Day Saints movement leader, first president of Ladies’ Relief Society of Nauvoo, compiled first and later LDS Collections of Sacred Hymns.

Laura Maria Sheldon Wright (10 Jul 1809 – 21 Jul 1886 | Saint Johnsbury VT – Iroquois NY) missionary, Seneca Iroquois rights activist / educator, author of school primer in Seneca and English, founded the Iroquois Temperance League.

Amanda M. Way (10 Jul 1828 – 24 Feb 1914 | Winchester IN – Whittier CA) social activist, Quaker minister, temperance leader, Women’s Tribune founder / publisher, American Civil War nurse, founding member of Indiana Woman’s Rights Association.

Katherine Devereux Blake (10 Jul 1858 – 02 Feb 1950 | New York NY – St Louis MO) peace activist, women’s rights activist, principal / schoolteacher.

07 Jul | Women.Words.Work

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Jane Elizabeth Dexter Conklin (07 Jul 1831 – 19 Dec 1914 | Utica NY – Utica NY) poet, elocutionist, religious writer, president of the Woman’s Relief Corps of Grand Army of the Republic.

Miriam Coles Harris (07 Jul 1834 – 23 Jan 1925 | Dosoris NY – Pau FR) novelist, children’s story writer, devotional book author.

Lillien Jane Martin (07 Jul 1851 – 26 Mar 1923 | Olean NY – San Francisco CA) author, psychologist, children’s advocate, anti-ageism / -sexism activist.

Nettie Maria Stevens (07 Jul 1861 – 04 May 1912 | Cavendish VT – Baltimore MD) author, biologist, geneticist, researcher, co-discovered XY-sex-determination-chromosome.

Charlotte Anita Whitney (07 Jul 1867 – 04 Feb 1955 | San Francisco CA – San Francisco CA) suffragist, political activist, women’s rights activist, early Communist Party USA organizer.

06 Jul | Women.Words.Work

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Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill (06 Jul 1799 – 01 Jun 1879 | New Haven CT – Princeton NJ) juvenile fiction writer, girls’ / women’s domestic guidebook author.

Sophia Willard Dana Ripley (06 Jul 1803 – 04 Feb 1861 | Cambridge MA – Manhattan NY) Transcendentalist, Roman Catholic convert, co-founded Utopian community Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education in West Roxbury MA.

Elizabeth Sager Helm (06 Jul 1837 – 19 Jul 1925 | Union County OH – Portland OR) survivor, memoirist, Oregon Trail Pioneer, orphaned twice: biological parents on The Trail (1844) and adoptive parents on The Trail in Whitman Massacre (1847).

Maria Howard Weeden (06 Jul 1846 – 12 Apr 1905 | Huntsville AL – Huntsville AL) poet, artist, author.

Julia Hunt Catlin Park DePew Taufflieb (06 Jul 1864 – 17 Dec 1947 | Bennington VT – Cannes FR) socialite, philanthropist, WWI activist, first US woman awarded French Croix de Guerre and Legion d’Honneur.

01 Jul | Women.Words.Work

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Annis Boudinot Stockton (01 Jul 1736 – 06 Feb 1801 | Darby PA – Fieldsboro NJ) poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, political activist, aka Duchess of Morven, one of first women published in the Thirteen Colonies, sole Febmale member of secret pro-revolutionary American Whig Society.

Mary Olivia Nutting (01 Jul 1831 – 13 Feb 1910 | Randolph Center VT – South Hadley MA) librarian, journal keeper, Mount Holyoke College’s first librarian.

Florence Van Leer Earle Nicholson Coates (01 Jul 1850 – 06 Apr 1927 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) poet, twice president of Browning Society, founded Contemporary Club of Philadelphia.

Velma Caldwell Melville (01 Jul 1858 – 25 Aug 1924 | Greenwood WI – Gainesville FL) poet, editor, prose writer.

Alice Barber Stephens (01 Jul 1858 – 13 Jul 1932 | Salem NJ – Rose Valley PA) painter, engraver, illustrator.