Women | US-ID | Idaho

1830s

Eliza Spalding Warren (11 aug 1837 – 21 jun 1919 | Spalding ID – Coeur d’Alene ID) pioneer, memoirist [daughter of Eliza Hart Spalding]


1840s


1860s


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1870s


1880s

Frances Norma Loring (14 oct 1887 – 05 feb 1968 | Wardner ID – Newmarket, Ontario) neo-classical sculptor


1890s

Eleanor [Nellie] Zabel Willhite (22 nov 1892 – 02 sep 1991 | Box Elder or Rapid City SD – Sioux Falls SD) first deaf female pilot to earn license, first licensed female pilot in South Dakota, founding member of all-female Ninety-Nine organization

Lillian Marie Bounds Disney (15 feb 1899 – 16 dec 1997 | Spalding ID – West Los Angeles CA) married Walt Disney, ink / paint artist, California Institute of Arts co-founder, the one suggested the name Mickey Mouse


1900s

Viola Sophia Wendt (31 mar 1907 – 23 mar 1986 | Boise ID – Waukesha WI) poet, educator


1910s

Ora Pate Stewart (23 aug 1910 – 10 feb 1990 | Randolph ID – Salt Lake City UT) author, lecturer, composer, US Laureate of Performing Arts

Frances Grace Arnholtz Gabe (23 jun 1915 – 26 dec 2016 | near Boise ID – Newberg OR) artist, inventor, designed and built the first Self-Cleaning House


1920s

Janie Thompson (20 aug 1921 – 01 jun 2013 | Malta ID – Orem UT) LDS professor, performer, Mormon missionary in Wales, founding director BYU Young Ambassadors and BYU Living Legends performance groups

Patricia Ann McGillis Locke (21 jan 1928 – 20 oct 2001 | Fort Hall ID – Phoenix AZ) activist-educator, converted to Bahá’í, Lakota name Tawacin WasteWin, first Native American woman to serve on National Spiritual Assembly of US Bahá’ís


1930s

Dolores [Dee] B. O’Hara (09 aug 1935 – Nampa ID) retired US Air Force officer, first aerospace nurse to first NASA astronauts, laid foundation for field of space nursing, former manager of Human Research Facility at Ames Research Center

Mary Alfreda [Freda] Smith (22 nov 1935 – Pocatella ID) pastor, LGBT / political activist, focus on minority / women’s rights, first ordained female clergy of Metropolitan Community Church

Sonia Ann Harris Johnson (27 feb 1936 – Malad ID) feminist author, activist

Amelia [Amy] Cutsack Trice (26 apr 1936 – 21 jul 2011 | Bonners Ferry ID – Spokane WA) Native American leader, chair of Kootenai Tribal Council, land / cultural preservationist

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (11 jul 1938 – Sugar City ID) author, essayist, professor, feminist Mormon, women’s Early American historian

Carol Lynn Wright Pearson (27 sep 1939 – Rexburg ID) poet, author, Mormon, playwright, memoirist, screenwriter


1940s

Carolyn Talcott (14 jun 1941 – Caldwell ID) editor, author, professor, computer scientist

Donna Fletcher Crow (15 nov 1941 – Nampa ID) nonfiction author, historical novelist, founded  alternative Wesleyan-Anglican Epworth Chapel on the Green

Linda Moulton Howe (20 jan 1942 – Boise ID) author, investigative journalist, extraterrestrial theorist, documentary film writer / editor / director / producer

Lois McMahan (14 may 1942 – Culdesac ID) WA State politician, schoolteacher, businesswoman

Ronee Blakley (24 aug 1945 – Nampa ID) singer, writer, actress, songwriter, composer, producer, director

Honor Elizabeth Kever (14 oct 1948 – Boise ID) American-born Canadian artist, focus on drawing / printmaking / photographer


1950s

Martha Raddatz (14 feb 1953 – Idaho Falls ID) tv reporter, interviewer, chief correspondent