by michelle | Mar 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Imagine voluntarily spending time in an asylum or traveling around the world in a race. This woman didn’t have to imagine; she did both! Elizabeth Cochran was born in Pennsylvania in 1864. Her father died when she was 6, causing financial hardship for her mother, who...
by michelle | Mar 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
The City of Chicago was established in 1837 but it took 142 years to elect its first female mayor. Jane Byrne grew up on the North Side of Chicago in the 1930s. She married William Byrne, a Marine, but was soon widowed when he died in a plane crash, leaving her to...
by michelle | Mar 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
The only woman in the United States to ever be given the Congressional Medal of Honor, she practiced medicine as well as advocating for women’s rights and the abolition of slavery. Dr. Mary Edwards Walker was the fifth daughter born to Alvah and Vesta Whitcomb Walker...
by michelle | Mar 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
More than the wife of a Founding Father, she made a home for orphans and preserved important parts of the birth story of America after her husband’s famous death. In 1857, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton was one of fourteen children born to Philip and Catherine...
by michelle | Mar 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
One woman’s fondness for cooking encouraged a standardized system of measure and a cookbook which has found a place in American homes for over a century. Fannie Merritt Farmer was born in 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts, the first of four girls in her family. Though it...
