10 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anne Robertson Johnson Cockrill (10 Feb 1757 – 13 Oct 1821 | Wake County NC – Nashville TN) pioneer landowner, first female to receive land grant in Tennessee.

Mildred Childe Lee (10 Feb 1845 – 27 Mar 1905 | Arlington VA – New Orleans LA) folk figure, Confederate family member, General Robert E. Lee’s youngest daughter.

Marguerite Milton Wells (10 Feb 1872 – 12 Aug 1959 | Milwaukee WI – Minneapolis MN) writer, suffragist, social reformer, MN League of Women Voters state / national president.

Mary Rowena [Rena] Maverick Green (10 Feb 1874 – 29 Nov 1962 | Sedalia MO – San Antonio TX) editor, sculptor, suffragist, memoirist, publisher, watercolorist, social activist, one of first women on San Antonio School Board, co-founder / first president of San Antonio Conservation Society.

Edith Clarke (10 Feb 1883 – 29 Oct 1959 | Howard County MD – Olney MD) author, essayist, first US female electrical engineer, first US female professor of electrical engineering, first woman to earn MS in electrical engineering from MIT, invented / patented Clarke calculator / Clarke transformation, first female Fellow of American Institute of Electrical Engineers.

07 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jane Stuart Woolsey (07 Feb 1830 – 09 Jul 1891 | Brooklyn NY – Fishkill NY) teacher, memoirist, Civil War Union nurse, field hospital superintendent.

Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith (07 Feb 1832 – 01 May 1911 | Philadelphia PA – Iffley UK) author, public speaker, temperance activist, spiritual autobiography author, US Holiness Movement / UK Higher Life Movement leader.

Emma Wixom Palmer Nevada (07 Feb 1859 – 20 Jun 1940 | Alpha CA – Liverpool UK) fencer, multi-linguist, operatic coloratura soprano.

Laura Ingalls Wilder (07 Feb 1867 – 10 Feb 1957 | Pepin County WI – Mansfield MO) author, memoirist, pioneer settler, farm journalist, children’s book writer.

Ethel Perrin (07 Feb 1871 – 15 May 1962 | Needham MA – Brewster NY) author, physical education expert / teacher.