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249,https://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/249,"BLANCHARD, Miss Helen Augusta
",,"Inventor Helen Augusta Blanchard was born in Portland, Maine on October 25, 1840. She was the daughter of a wealthy shipowner and businessman. When her father's business failed and he eventually died in 1866, Helen took to patent development and monetized her inventions. Over the course of about 40 years, Helen patented 28 inventions including the zig-zag stitch sewing machine. In 1876, she founded the successful Blanchard Over-Seam Company of Philadelphia.
The May 1, 1913 Washington Evening Star noted: ""One of the most important patents granted during the centennial year was an overseaming machine which has become invaluable to manufacturers of knitted fabrics and of various articles of ready-made clothing. It was invented by Miss Helen Augusta Blanchard, who established a large company in Philadelphia.""
After living in Philadelphia, she moved to New York City. She passed away in Providence, Rhode Island on January 22, 1922, and was buried in her home of Portland, Maine.
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Helen Augusta Blanchard was born in Portland, Maine on October 25, 1840. She later lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as well as New York City.
",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"https://books.google.com/books?id=uRJt7QqA7GEC&pg=PA354&lpg#v=onepage&q&f=false^^Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), May 01, 1913, Page 11, Image 11^^Helen Augusta Blanchard Find A Grave",,,"October 25, 1840
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- Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology. (New Brunswick, NJ.), 1995
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^^Philadelphia, PA
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108,https://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/108,"HILL, Mrs. Eliza Trask",,"Eliza Trask Hill, a native of Warren, Massachusetts, was born on May 10, 1840. Her profile lists her as a woman suffragist and journalist, but she also was a wife, a mother, a teacher, and a supporter of several different causes.
With a father and grandfather who were ministers and parents who were both active in reform efforts, Eliza was raised in an atmosphere with people who gave back to their communities. She followed their lead early in her life, presenting a flag to the Fifteenth Regiment of Massachusetts and speaking at that event. She also taught for ten years, including time teaching in Pittsburgh, beginning a career of passionate engagement with education. Eliza married John Lange Hill in 1866 and became a mother to three children.
Despite her domestic responsibilities, Eliza found time to toil for the many causes she believed in. As her A Woman of the Century profile explains, Eliza ""labored earnestly for the redemption of abandoned women, but, believing that preventive is more effectual than reformatory work, she has identified herself with the societies that care for and help the working girls"" (380). An 1887 article in the St. Johnsbury Caledonian discussed how she and Ellen M. H. Richards led the New England Helping-Hand Society's efforts to establish a home for working women in Boston.
Eliza also contributed as a public speaker, an early member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (especially its committee on prison reform), a political activist, and a member of the Prohibition Party.
An ardent advocate of public education, Eliza was the founder and editor of Woman's Voice and Public School Champion. She was elected to membership in the New England Woman's Press Association in 1890. The next September, Eliza joined Julia Ward Howe, Mary A. Livermore, and Susan S. Fessenden on the speaking platform at Tremont Temple for a rally related to the upcoming school committee election.
Eliza also continued to advocate for reforms. In late November of 1898, The Indianapolis Journal announced her upcoming talk, ""Glimpses of Prison Life."" Two days later, the newspaper published a lengthy review of her speech, an article that reveals Eliza's style of combining logos and pathos, sharing statistics while also touching audiences with emotional stories of individuals whose lives led them to crime.
She passed away at her home in Somerville, Massachusetts on March 29, 1908, and was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.",,,,,"McMaster, MaryKate",,,,,,,"POINT(-8036493.6064993 5192241.5825761)|POINT(-7993063.0424966 5248651.9601517)|POINT(-7910243.5223611 5215057.886225)|POINT(-7914753.3070293 5219032.6116953)|POINT(-8906303.9924351 4933170.8156896)|11|-8036531.8250133|5190467.4074903|osm
Eliza Trask Hill was born in Warren, MA on May 10, 1840. She later lived in Fitchburg, MA, Pittsburgh, PA, Boston, MA, and Somerville, MA.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"New-York tribune. (New York [N.Y.]), March 30, 1908, Page 3, Image 3^^St. Johnsbury Caledonian. volume (St. Johnsbury, Vt.), July 28, 1887, Image 4^^Eliza Sessions Carpenter Trask Hill - Find A Grave^^Proceedings of the Fitchburg Historical Society and PapersTrelating to the History of the Town. Volume III. Fitchburg: Published by the Historical Society, 1902: 98.^^Emerson, William A. Fireside legends : incidents, anecdotes, reminiscences, connected with the early history of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and vicinity. Second Edition, 1900: 194.
^^Lord, Myra Belle. History of the New England Woman's Press Association, 1885-1931 Newton, Mass: The Graphic Press, 1932: 47 .^^The Weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.), September 26, 1891, Page 4, Image 4^^The American. [volume] (Omaha, Nebraska), April 01, 1892, Page 4, Image 4^^The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]), November 26, 1898, Page 6, Image 6^^The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]), November 28, 1898, Page 8, Image 8",,,"May 10, 1840","Warren, MA","March 29, 1908","Suffragist^^Journalist^^Reformer^^Temperance reformer^^Prison reformer^^Teacher^^Women's rights advocate^^Editor^^Business woman",,"^^^^
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106,https://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/106,"WRIGHT, Mrs. Julia McNair",,"Julia McNair Wright, an author, was born in Oswego, New York, on May 1, 1840. Her A Woman of the Century profile notes: ""She began her literary career at sixteen, by the publication of short stories"" (804). Three years later, Julia contributed ""The Life-Labor of Jean Garston"" to the November 1859 edition of Ladies' Repository and also married Dr. William James Wright, a mathematician.
She wrote on topics that interested her, such as temperance and domestic life, and was extremely successful. A Presbyterian, Julia penned several Anti-Catholic works, such as Secrets of the convent and confessional: an exhibition of the influence and workings of papacy upon society and republican institutions. She also wrote nature books for children. In 1895, Julia became the editor for the home department of The St. Louis Presbyterian.
Julia passed away in Fulton, Missouri, on September 2, 1903. Her obituary in The Indianapolis Journal highlighted that Julia's ""'Nature Readers' have been translated into several foreign languages and are in preparation as a textbook for the blind.""",,,,,"McMaster, MaryKate",,,,,,,"POINT(-8516155.0681795 5376403.808203)|POINT(-10236101.66557 4699365.2189184)|9|-8516460.8162920|5376790.7706587|osm
Julia McNair Wright was born in Oswego, NY on May 1, 1840. She later lived in Fulton, MO.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.), August 10, 1907, LAST EDITION, Image 3^^The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.), June 05, 1891, Image 8^^The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.), August 20, 1885, Image 8^^The Central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.), September 03, 1879, Page 6, Image 6^^The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]), April 15, 1884, Page 3, Image 3^^The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.), September 03, 1903, Page 7, Image 7^^The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]), September 03, 1903, Page 2, Image 2^^The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.), March 16, 1895, Image 3",,,"May 1, 1840","Oswego, NY","September 2, 1903","Author^^Editor^^Novelist^^Temperance reformer",,"^^^^^^^^^^^^^^",author,"Wright, Julia McNair, 1840-1903","Wright, Julia McNair 1840-1903","WRIGHT, Mrs. Julia McNair",,1831-1840,Female,American,,,,Presbyterian,"Wright, Julia McNair. The Complete Household. Philadelphia: J.C. McCurdy & Co., 1879.^^Wright, Julia McNair. A Wife Hard Won. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1884.",NY,Married,"18 or 19",Yes,,1840,,,,"Oswego, NY; Fulton, MO","Wright, William James",,Reform^^Temperance^^Writing/Publishing,,,,,,"804",,,,"Oswego, NY^^Fulton, MO",,"National Temperance Society (New York, N.Y.)","St. Louis Presbyterian","LADIES' REPOSITORY^^ST LOUIS PRESBYTERIAN",,,,,,,,,,,,"J.C. McCurdy & Co.^^J.B. Lippincott & Co.",,"McNair, Julia",,,,"1831-1840,1840,author,Authors,editor,J. B. Lippincott & Co.,J.C. McCurdy & Co.,Julia McNair Wright,May,novelist,Novelists,NY,Oswego,Reform,reformer,St. Louis Presbyterian,Temperance,temperance reformer,women as authors","https://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/files/original/b7df51b1b05b00d6409a937f66748785.jpg,https://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/files/original/e129970f77f8aa7a457461d668137e13.jpg,https://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/files/original/fceb8ea35ef006f5aabe642208b94885.jpg",Person,"A Woman of the Century Women",1,0
89,https://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/89,"SAWYER, Mrs. Lucy Sargent",,"Lucy Sargent Sawyer, born in Belfast, ME on April 3, 1840, was a missionary worker, philanthropist, and reformer.
Devoted to the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which her husband was a pastor, Lucy became involved in activities such as the Woman's Foreigh Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. As the couple moved around the country for his pastorates, Lucy participated in missionary and philanthropic causes in several cities.
Her A Woman of the Century profile notes: ""In all reformatory and philanthropic movements she is greatly interested, and she is a generous and zealous patron of many of those organizations by which the christian womanhood of our day is elevating the lowly, enlightening the ignorant, comforting the poor and afflicted, and saving the lost"" (634).",,,,,"McMaster, MaryKate",,,,,,,"POINT(-7681864.0138197 5531109.0239958)|12|-7681195.1898223|5529755.2525653|osm
Lucy Sargent Sawyer was born in Belfast, ME on April 3, 1840.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Lucy A. Sargent Sawyer Find A Grave",,,"April 3, 1840","Belfast, ME","November 7, 1907","Missionary worker^^Philanthropist^^Reformer",,"","missionary worker",,"Sawyer, Lucy Sargent 1840-","SAWYER, Mrs. Lucy Sargent",,1831-1840,Female,American,,,,"Methodist Episcopal",,ME,Married,21,,,1840,,,,"Belfast, ME; Machias, ME; Providence, RI; Albany, NY; Syracuse, NY","Sawyer, James E. C.^^Sargent, John",,Philanthropy^^Reform^^Religion/Missionary,,,,,,"634",,,,"Belfast, ME^^Machias, ME^^Providence, RI^^Albany, NY^^Syracuse, NY",,"Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (Providence, RI)^^Troy Conference Home Missionary Society",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Sargent, Lucy A.",,,,"1831-1840,1840,April,Belfast,Lucy Sargent Sawyer,ME,Methodist Episcopal,Troy Conference Home Missionary Society,Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (Providence Branch)",https://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/files/original/503886d521f9913e1f1b0083a6feb502.jpg,Person,"A Woman of the Century Women",1,0
50,https://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/50,"FRISSELL, Miss Seraph",,"Physician Seraph Frissell was born in Peru, Massachusetts on August 20, 1840. She attended Mount Holyoke Seminary, while also teaching, and graduated in 1869. Seraph continued teaching until 1872, when she began her medical training at the University of Michigan. Seraph interned at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in 1874 and graduated from the University of Michigan the next year.
After attending lectures in New York City and practicing in Boston, Seraph began her Pittsfield, Massachusetts practice in 1876. In 1885, when she moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, Dr. Frissell became the first female member of the Hampden Medical Society and a Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society. She doubled her work during the 1890-1891 academic year, serving as a physician and lecturer at her alma mater, Mount Holyoke, while continuing her Springfield practice.
A Congregationalist, Seraph was a member of the South Congregational Church in Pittsfield until she joined the First Church of Christ in Springfield on May 3, 1885. Interested in missionary endeavors, she was involved with the Woman's Board of Missions.
Also a supporter of the temperance cause, Seraph served as President, Treasurer, Secretary, and ""superintendent of the department of Heredity and Health"" (304) of her area's Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Dr. Seraph Frissell passed away in 1915.",,,,,"McMaster, MaryKate",,,,,,,"POINT(-8131390.1771022 5226461.4846719)|POINT(-8153270.2764458 5225961.6581667)|POINT(-8082642.4623201 5174290.2270531)|POINT(-7913296.2261779 5214088.8378842)|POINT(-9320425.4796839 5195846.663355)|13|-8131378.8309808|5225971.8099594|osm
Seraph Frissell was born in Peru, MA on August 20, 1840. She later lived in Ann Arbor, MI, Boston, MA, Pittsfield, MA and Springfield, MA.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Massachusetts Medical Society. Triennial Catalog and Directory of the Massachusetts Medical Society. 1890. Boston: David Clapp & Son Printers, 1890, p. 19 and 64.
In Haithi Trust^^Smith, Sophia and Charles S. Smith, comp. Genealogical records of the descendants of David Mack to 1879. Rutland, VT: Tuttle & Company, Printers, 1879, p. 40.
In Haithi Trust
^^Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. 1837-1895. Mount Holyoke College, 1895, p. 12 and 111.
In Haithi Trust^^New England Hospital for Women and Children and its Training School for Nurses. Annual Report for the year ending September 30, 1902, Boston: Press of Geo. H. Ellis Co., 1902, p. 43.
In Haithi Trust^^
Ellis, Theo. W., comp., Manual of the First Church of Christ and Names of all the members from the year 1735 to Nov. 1, 1885. Springfield Mass, 1885 p. 34 and 155.
In Haithi Trust^^General Catalogue of Mount Holyoke College, 1837-1924. South Hadley, Massachusetts. Published by the College. Compiled by the Alumni Association, 1924, p. 125
In Haithi Trust",,,"August 20, 1840","Peru, MA",1915,Physician,,"Massachusetts Medical Society. Triennial Catalog and Directory of the Massachusetts Medical Society. 1890. Boston: David Clapp & Son Printers, 1890, p. 19 and 64.
In Haithi Trust^^Smith, Sophia and Charles S. Smith, comp. Genealogical records of the descendants of David Mack to 1879. Rutland, VT: Tuttle & Company, Printers, 1879, p. 40.
In Haithi Trust^^Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. 1837-1895. Mount Holyoke College, 1895, p. 12 and 111.
In Haithi Trust^^New England Hospital for Women and Children and its Training School for Nurses. Annual Report for the year ending September 30, 1902, Boston: Press of Geo. H. Ellis Co., 1902, p. 43.
In Haithi Trust^^Ellis, Theo. W., comp., Manual of the First Church of Christ and Names of all the members from the year 1735 to Nov. 1, 1885. Springfield Mass, 1885 p. 34 and 155.
In Haithi Trust^^General Catalogue of Mount Holyoke College, 1837-1924. South Hadley, Massachusetts. Published by the College. Compiled by the Alumni Association, 1924, p. 125
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35,https://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/35,"CASSEDAY, Miss Jennie ",,"Jennie Casseday, who was born in Louisville, Kentucky on June 9, 1840, was injured as a young woman. As a result, she was bedridden for most of her life. Determined to brighten the lives of others in her situation, she created the Louisville Flower Mission.
During the early years of the Flower Mission, Jennie was contacted by the Harper Brothers, successful New York publishers, to write about her Flower Mission for Harper's Young People. Responding to the publishers, Jennie wrote:
""The mission of flowers has such possibilities, such deep meaning, so much cheer and brightness for the sick, the aged, the poor, the shut-ins, and for the missionaries themselves, that I find my heart bounding with gladness at tne new avenue you have opened for its enlargement""(Duncan, 22).
Word spread about Jennie's mission, and Frances Willard asked Jennie to be the founder of the WCTU's National Flower Mission. Her National and Annual Flower Mission Day, an event on her birthday, June 9, which resulted in flowers in the cells of prisoners throughout the country, continued even after Jennie's death on February 8, 1893.
In addition, Jennie organized the Shut-In Band, a community of people who, like her, were invalids, and provided a way for them to communicate through the periodical Open Window.
She also supported the Louisville Training School for Nurses and the Rest Cottage ""for tired girls and women who have to support themselves"" (161), and established a Louisville chapter of the Order of King's Daughters (Duncan, 43).
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Jennie Casseday was born in Louisville, KY on June 9, 1840.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"The Hartford herald. (Hartford, Ky.), February 15, 1893, Image 2^^The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.), May 30, 1901, Image 3^^Aberdeen herald. (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.), June 06, 1895, Image 1^^Herald and news. (West Randolph, Vt.), June 15, 1893, Image 8^^Pittsburg dispatch. (Pittsburg [Pa.]), November 19, 1891, Page 5, Image 5^^Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]), August 28, 1892, Page 4, Image 4^^The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.), November 14, 1888, Image 3^^Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.), March 20, 1890, Image 2^^Pittsburg dispatch. (Pittsburg [Pa.]), July 10, 1892, Page 16, Image 16^^The daily dispatch. (Richmond [Va.]), June 01, 1884, Image 2^^Infirmary for Women
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