WOOLSON, Abba Goold
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<span>Author Abba Louise Goold Woolson was born on her family compound in Windham, Maine, on April 30, 1838. She was the daughter of author and Maine historian William Goold. Her family had long-established roots in Maine and resided in Windham for several generations.</span><br /><br /><span>Abba received an education from the Portland public schools and attended the Girls' High School. She graduated from the Girls' High School as valedictorian in 1856. This year would prove to be exciting for Abba as it was also the year she married her high school principal, Professor Moses Woolson, and was first published in New York's </span><em>Home Journal</em><span>.</span><br /><br /><span>While living in Portland, Maine, Abba went on to start a successful and robust career as an author. She penned a series of popular poems for the </span><em>Portland Transcript</em><span>, a publication she contributed to for four years. Through the course of her writing career, she published dozens of essays, lectures, poems, and collections. In 1874, Abba edited and contributed to "Dress Reform," a series of lectures by women physicians of Boston on "Dress as It Effects the Health of Women." The lectures were originally delivered in the prior year as part of a dress-reform series sponsored by the New England Women’s Club. In this work, Abba amplified the voices of physicians speaking out against impractical dress.</span><br /><br /><span>Through her work as a teacher, she passed down her writing skills and wisdom. Abba was a teacher at the Mt. Auburn Girls' School and the Concord High School. Her talent as a poet led to several speaking engagements, including Portland's celebration of the Maine Centennial and the dedication of the Fowler Library in Concord, New Hampshire. Being one of New England's premier writers, it's no surprise that Abba served in many literary groups and societies. Her most notable commitments were serving as president of the Castilian Club and the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women.</span><br /><br /><span>Aside from her devotion to writing, teaching, and reform, Abba traveled extensively. Her travels included visiting the West Coast of the United States, Europe, and Morocco.</span><br /><br /><span>Abba passed away on February 6, 1921, at the age of 82.</span>
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WILLARD, Mrs. Allie C.
<span>Alice "Allie" C. Rosseter Willard was born on April 13, 1860, near Nauvoo, Illinois. During her childhood, Allie's family moved to Grand City, Nebraska, then to Loup City, Nebraska. An avid learner, she dedicated herself to her studies. Interested in a career in business, Allie studied the field and became affiliated with a printing office. On August 30, 1880, she began her five-year career as the U.S. postmaster for Loup City.</span><br /><br /><span>Allie married Osmond Willard in 1881, after a long courtship, and became the mother of five children. Somehow, she also found time to work with Osmond on his newspaper, </span><em>The Loup City Times,<span> </span></em><span>writing editorials and articles. </span><br /><br /><span>After Osmond was assassinated by a rival publisher in May of 1887, due to his paper's opposition to a political ring, Allie became editor of</span><em><span> </span>The Loup City Times</em><span>. Since she had been working closely with Osmond and had gained a wide professional network by attending conventions with him, Allie was well prepared to succeed her husband. She boosted her business acumen by attending business college and briefly served as a clerk in the Nebraska Senate. Allie was a member of the Nebraska Press Association and became affiliated with the Western Newspaper Union in 1889.</span><br /><br /><span>In addition, Allie was active with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, advocated for other reforms, and participated in philanthropic work.</span><br /><br /><span>After meeting many people during her travels abroad, Allie became associated with </span><em>The London Signal</em><span>,</span><span> owned by Lady Henry Somerset, in 1895.</span><br /><br /><span>By 1900, Allie was living in Washington, D.C. and working as a librarian. Ten years later, she was living in Chicago, Illinois, and working as a stenographer in the railroad industry.</span><br /><br /><span>Her "</span><a href="https://archive.org/details/ourownladysketch00will/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Our Own Lady"<span> </span></em></a><span>was published in 1931. As Allie wrote in the introduction, it was a "little book of biography, history and poetry about (Mrs.) Bertha Baur, because she is <em>our</em> own lady." Bertha Elizabeth Duppler Baur was a successful businesswoman, political activist, and suffrage advocate who was living in Chicago at the time.</span><br /><br /><span>Allie passed away in Chicago on September 12, 1936.</span>
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JACKSON, Mrs. Katharine Johnson
<p><span>Katharine Johnson Jackson, daughter of former Massachusetts senator and representative Hon. Emerson Johnson, was born in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, on April 7, 1841. Following periods of public school and home school instruction, she entered a prestigious school in Hopedale, Massachusetts, at age sixteen. Katharine subsequently completed her high school studies at a school in Hartford, Connecticut, where she later taught. To further her education, she studied stenography and was likely one of its first woman practitioners. </span><br /><br /><span>In 1861, Katharine, also referred to as Kate, began her lifelong career at Our Home on the Hillside, as private secretary to Dr. James C. Jackson, director of the Jackson Sanatorium. Established in 1858, the Jackson Sanatorium was founded on two basic principles: to restore sick people to health, and to teach the philosophy of health by right living. While employed at the sanatorium in Dansville, New York, she met and later married James H. Jackson, the son of Dr. James C. Jackson. They had one child, James Arthur Jackson, who was born a few years after their 1864 marriage. During these years Katharine and James attended medical school. She attended The Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary where she graduated as valedictorian of her class. James completed his medical school at Bellevue. </span><br /><br /><span>Following her graduation, Katharine worked as a physician and managing staff member at The Jackson Sanatorium where she helped to make the home a haven of rest for the sick and suffering. Dr. Kate Jackson was intensely devoted to helping people both physically and spiritually. While acutely aware and interested in contemporary women's issues, the rigorous nature of her professional life prevented her from being as active in social causes as she would have liked. Kate was noted to be a persuasive and informative speaker who educated the staff and patients of the sanatorium regarding health and other practical subjects. The physical and spiritual care Dr. Jackson gave to her patients, and the education she provided to enable patients to care for themselves, established her as an inspiration among nineteenth-century women.</span></p>
<p><span>She passed away on March 4, 1921, and was buried in Dansville's Green Mount Cemetery.</span></p>
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BASCOM, Mrs. Emma Curtiss
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<span>Woman suffragist and reformer Emma Curtiss Bascom was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, on April 20, 1828. Her older sister </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sophia Curtiss Hoffman</a><span> is also in </span><em>A Woman of the Century</em><span>.</span><br /><br /><span>After having attended Great Barrington Academy, Pittsfield Institute, and Patapsco Institute, Emma taught at Kinderhook Academy and Stratford Academy.</span><br /><br /><span>Emma married John Bascom, a professor at Williams College, and became the mother of several children. When John was appointed president of the University of Wisconsin in 1874, the family moved to Madison. </span><br /><br /><span>While in Wisconsin, Emma was very involved with the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association, The Association for the Advancement of Women, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and </span><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081922704;view=1up;seq=9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Woman's Centennial Commission for the State of Wisconsin</a><span>.</span><br /><br /><span>Emma passed away in 1916 and is buried with John at the University of Wisconsin.</span>
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BRINTON, Mrs. Emma Southwick
<span>Army nurse Emma Southwick Brinton was born in Peabody, Massachusetts on April 7, 1834. During the Civil War, she served as a nurse in Washington, D.C.; Petersburg, Virginia; the Sea Islands; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. </span><br /><br /><span>Later, Emma became a writer and lecturer. </span><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1903-05-24/ed-1/seq-28/#date1=1789&index=1&rows=20&words=Brinton+Emma+Southwick&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1943&proxtext=Emma+Southwick+Brinton&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Times of May 24, 1903</a><span>, featured her "Hospital Heroines of the Civil War."</span><br /><br /><span>On April 13, 1912, Emma wrote a </span><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1912-04-23/ed-1/seq-8/#date1=1789&sort=date&date2=1943&words=BRINTON+EMMA+SOUTHWICK&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=7&state=&rows=20&proxtext=Emma+Southwick+Brinton&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Letter to the Editor</a><span> of </span><em>The Washington Times</em><span>, praising artist Francis Davis "Frank" Millet, an old friend and fellow member of the Society of Art who had perished on the Titanic. In the article, she recalled her work with his father, Dr. A. C. Millet, during the Civil War and her many meetings in the United States and abroad with Frank D. Millet.</span><br /><br /><span>Emma was active in women's rights and religious education. She served as the delegate to the International Council of Women at The Hague and the International Sunday School Convention in 1915. According to </span><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1913-10-08/ed-1/seq-7/#date1=1789&sort=date&date2=1943&words=Brinton+Emma+Southwick&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=8&state=&rows=20&proxtext=Emma+Southwick+Brinton&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Evening Star</em></a><span>, she lived at 1414 Fifteenth Street in Washington, D.C.</span><br /><br /><span>In August of 1917, during World War I, Emma </span><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1917-08-18/ed-1/seq-5/#date1=1789&sort=date&date2=1943&words=Brinton+Emma+Southwick&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=11&state=&rows=20&proxtext=Emma+Southwick+Brinton&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke</a><span> at The Church of the Covenant in Washington, D.C. about her work as a Civil War army nurse.</span><br /><br /><span>By April of 1921, when she </span><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1921-04-04/ed-1/seq-5/#date1=1789&index=2&rows=20&words=Brinton+Emma+Southwick&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1943&proxtext=Emma+Southwick+Brinton&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gathered friends to celebrate her eighty-seventh birthday</a><span>, Emma lived at 1318 Eleventh Street, Northwest in Washington, D.C.</span>
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BROWN, Mrs. Charlotte Emerson
<p><span>Charlotte Emerson Brown, born in Andover, Massachusetts, on April 21, 1838, was an author, a businesswoman, a philanthropist, a suffragist, and a teacher.</span></p>
<p><span>As the leader of the General Federation of Women's Literary Clubs, Charlotte strove to expand its membership. H</span><span>er</span><em> A Woman of the Century</em><span> profile notes:</span></p>
<p><span>"Mrs. Brown is greatly interested in the woman's club movement and gladly devotes her whole time to work for its advancement. She possesses unusual power of memory, mental concentration, energy and business ability, combined with such sweetness of disposition and deference for others as to make it easy for her to accomplish whatever she undertakes. She is enthusiastic and inspires others with her own magnetism. She combines the power of general plan with minute detail, and her motto is that what should be done at all should be done promptly and thoroughly" (125-126).</span></p>
<p><span>In addition, Charlotte was a member of the <a href="http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/186" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Woman's Board of Missions.</a></span></p>
<p>She passed away on February 4, 1895, and was buried in Newark, New Jersey.</p>
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MOULTON, Mrs. Louise Chandler
<p><span>Author Louise Chandler Moulton was born on April 5, 1835. A native of Pomfret, Connecticut, she left her hometown to attend Emma Willard's </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/15" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Troy Female Seminary</a><span>. Louise published her first works with Phillips, Sampson and Company and, as her friend </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/90" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harriet Prescott Spofford</a><span> noted in </span><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89098862204;view=1up;seq=174" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>A Little Book of Friends</em>,</a><span> her </span><span>publisher </span><a href="http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/MDP/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Moses Dresser Phillips</a><span> said that the talented young author "was more fit to be President of the United States than any man he knew" (160).</span><br /><br /><span>During her career, Louise wrote several books and contributed to periodicals, including </span><em><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/23" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Atlantic Monthly</a></em><span>, </span><em><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/31" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Century Magazine</a></em><span>, </span><em><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/34" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Galaxy</a></em><span>, </span><em><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/33" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harper's Monthly</a></em><span>,</span><em><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/22" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Independent</a></em><span>, </span><em><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/32" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scribner's Monthly</a></em><span>, and </span><em><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/36" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Woman's Journal</a></em><span>. In addition to Spofford and Phillips, Louise's friends included <a href="http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/MDP/items/show/19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, <a href="http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/MDP/items/show/136" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oliver Wendell Holmes</a>, <a href="http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/MDP/items/show/158" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Russell Lowell</a>, and Sarah Helen Whitman.</span></p>
<p><span>She passed away on August 10, 1908.</span></p>
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SPOFFORD, Mrs. Harriet Prescott
<p><span>Harriet Prescott Spofford, born on April 3, 1835, was an author, biographer, novelist, and poet. A native of Calais, Maine, she attended Pinkerton Academy. Harriet became known in the literary world in 1859 when, as </span><em>A Woman of the Century</em><span> notes, "she published her Parisian story, 'In A Cellar,' in the 'Atlantic Monthly,' which at once brought her into notice" (674). </span><br /><br /><span>In addition to </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/23" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Atlantic Monthly</em></a><span>, she published in several periodicals, including </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/33" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Harper's Magazine</em></a><span>, </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/22" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Independent</em></a><span>, <em>The </em></span><em>North American Review</em><span>, and </span><em>Scribner's Magazine</em><span>. </span><br /><br /><span>Talented in a variety of fields, Harriet wrote several different types of books, including </span><em><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=64&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EArt+Decoration+Applied+to+Furniture%3C%2Fem%3E.+%26nbsp%3BNew+York%3A+%26nbsp%3BHarper+and+Brothers%2C+1878">Art Decoration Applied to Furniture</a> and </em><em><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=64&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Marquis+Of+Carabas%3C%2Fem%3E.+Boston%3A+Roberts+Brothers%2C+1882">The Marquis Of Carabas.</a> </em><span> Her </span><em><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89098862204;view=1up;seq=13" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Little Book of Friends</a></em><span> was about ten of her friends. Most of these women, including </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/92" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Louise Chandler Moulton</a><span>, are in </span><em>A Woman of the Century</em><span>.</span><br /><br /><span>In addition to her literary activity, Harriet Prescott Spofford was a wife and mother who was very involved in the National Congress of Mothers.</span></p>
<p><span>Harriet passed away in Amesbury, Massachusetts on August 14, 1921, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Newburyport, Massachusetts.</span></p>
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SAWYER, Mrs. Lucy Sargent
Lucy Sargent Sawyer, born in Belfast, ME on April 3, 1840, was a missionary worker, philanthropist, and reformer.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Her <em>A Woman of the Century</em> 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).
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SHOAFF, Mrs. Carrie M.
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<span>Artist and inventor Carrie M. Shoaff was born in Huntington, IN on April 2, 1849. <br /><br />By 1880, she and her husband Urias Shoaff were living in Fort Wayne, IN. In 1884, she exhibited three of her paintings in Keil's bookstore in Fort Wayne. <em>The Fort Wayne Gazette</em> of July 6, 1884 published anarticle about them, giving details about the paintings and praising Mrs. Shoaff's work as being "in every way worthy of notice."<br /><br /> On Thursday, January 10, 1895, <em>The Fort Wayne Weekly Gazette</em> published an article, "Eminent Women. The Part They Are Taking in the World's Affairs," about the <em>A Woman of the Century</em> book and focusing on Carrie M. Shoaff. Speaking of Carrie, it noted: <br /><br />"Among the collection appears a finely executed photogravure and a biographical sketch of a well-known Fort Wayne artist and inventor, Mrs. Carrie M. Shoaff. It tells in detail of the lady's success in the invention of a method of inventing imitation limoges ware and the demand that has everywhere been created for the product. Our own people are well aware of the handsome offers that have been made the artist to remove to the east and establish a studio, yet her interest in her home where were the scenes of her disappointments and her final triumph have overbalanced all, and she continues her work here. <br /><br />Not only in this field has Mrs. Shoaff been successful, but as a writer the lady possesses much ability. Many of the productions of her pen have delighted GAZETTE readers and all have reflected much credit upon her skill and ability. Many articles are written over a nom-de-plume while others are unsighed. All bear the unmistakable imprint of genius. It is a pleasure to chronicle the success of such persons, because it is deserved, and the GAZETTE sincerely congratulates Mrs. Shoaff and trusts that the future may hae still greater achievements and victories in store for her."<br /><br /><em>A Woman of the Centur</em>y noted that Mrs. Shoaff had established an art school in Fort Wayne and was teaching many women about limoge work. She continued that work for several years, as Carrie is listed in the 1900 Federal Census as living on Columbia Avenue in Fort Wayne with her husband Urias and as being an Art Teacher. <br /><br />On April 20, 1917, the <em>Fort Wayne News</em> published Carrie's letter to the editor about the death of her friend S. B. McManus, a poet and "the leading spirit of the 'Bohemian Club.'"<br /><br />She passed away in Fort Wayne on March 15, 1929.</span>
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DELETOMBE, Miss Alice S.
Alice S. Deletombe, born in Gallipolis, OH on April 2, 1854, was a poet. Humble by nature, young Alice did not publicize her work and often wrote under a pseudonym.<br /><br />In 1891, <em>The Magazine of Poetry</em> <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3529222;view=1up;seq=80" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> her image, some of her poems, and a biographical sketch of Alice by W. Farrand Fetch, quitely likely same person who later wrote her sketch for <em>A Woman of the Century.</em> <br /><br />Commenting on Alice's work, Fetch added:<br />"Miss Deletombe's poems are inspirations emotion more than reason, of heart not art, which well out of a warm, passionate, beauty-loving heart. As such, they are true poems of the soul, and in spite of some metrical defects, are too good to be lost to the world."<br /><br />Two years later, the same periodical published her poem "<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433076020068;view=1up;seq=353" target="_blank" rel="noopener">At His Gate</a>."<br /><br />She also served as one of the many contributors to <em>A Woman of the Century</em>.<br /><br />By 1903, Alice was writing for <em>The Rosary</em>, a periodical tied to her Catholic faith.<br /><br />Alice passed away in Gallipolis on December 5, 1929 at age seventy-five. She was <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95243775/alice-deletombe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">buried</a> in Mound Hill Cemetery in Gallipolis.
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WETHERALD, Miss Agnes Ethelwyn
<p><span>Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald, a Canadian </span><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86081853/1895-04-05/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1789&sort=date&date2=1924&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=14&words=Ethelwyn+Wetherald&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=Wetherald&phrasetext=Ethelwyn+Wetherald&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poet</a><span>, novelist, and journalist, was born in Rockwood, Ontario, on April 26, 1857. A Quaker, she came to the United States to attend the Friends Boarding School in Union Springs, New York. A writer from an early age, Ethelwyn published in <em>St. Nicholas</em> when she was just seventeen. She returned to Canada and graduated from Pickering College in Ontario. </span><br /><br /><span>In addition to using her own name, Wetherald was known as "Bel Thistlewaite." Her publications included </span><em><a href="https://archive.org/stream/houseoftreesothe00wethiala#page/n11/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The House of the Trees & Other Poems</a></em><span> and a collaboration with Graeme Mercer Adam, </span><em><a href="https://archive.org/stream/cihm_36079#page/n7/mode/1up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An Algonquin Maiden: A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada</a></em><span>.</span><br /><span></span></p>
<p><span>She contributed to both Canadian and American periodicals, including <em>Canadian Monthly</em>, </span><em><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84029853/1890-12-17/ed-1/seq-6/#date1=1789&sort=date&date2=1924&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=0&words=Ethelwyn+Wetherald&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=Wetherald&phrasetext=Ethelwyn+Wetherald&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wide Awake</a></em><span>, and</span><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045366/1904-04-02/ed-1/seq-37/#date1=1789&index=0&date2=1924&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Ethelwyn+Wetherald&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=Wetherald&phrasetext=Ethelwyn+Wetherald&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <em>Youth's Companion</em></a><span>. Agnes and </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/85" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Cameron</a><span> collaborated as publishers of <em>Our Wives and Daughters</em>, a Canadian periodical.</span></p>
<p><span>Agnes passed away on March 10, 1940, at the age of eighty-two, and was buried in Friends Brick Church Grounds in Pelham, Ontario.</span></p>
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DABBS, Mrs. Ellen Lawson
<p>Ellen Lawson Dabbs, M.D. knew from<a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020274/1904-11-13/ed-1/seq-18/#date1=1789&index=4&rows=20&words=Dabbs+Ellen+Lawson&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1924&proxtext=ellen+lawson+dabbs&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> personal experience</a> how important it was for women to get an education and have a profession, so she accepted leadership positions in various organizations, knowing that her voice would be heard on women's rights and other key issues well beyond Texas.</p>
<p>Some of those organizations were the Texas Woman's Press Association, the Industrial Union, and the Texas Equal Rights Association.</p>
<p>During her career, she also clerked for her husband, merchant Joseph Wilkes Dabbs, presented at <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858028562951;view=1up;seq=337" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conferences</a>, and wrote for the <em>National Economist</em>.</p>
<p>Ellen found time for all of these activities while also being a wife and mother. </p>
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WOODBRIDGE, Mrs. Mary A. Brayton
<span>Mary A. Brayton Woodbridge, born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on April 21, 1830, was a temperance reformer. She married Frederick Wells Woodbridge when she was seventeen years old, and the couple settled in Cleveland, Ohio. Mary became a mother, and her family eventually lived in Ravenna, Ohio.</span><br /><br /><span>Rev. Aaron Merritt Hills, Frances E. Willard, and others wrote about Mary's life in </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/lifeandlaborsmr00hillgoog" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Life and Labors of Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge</a><span>. She was very active in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and edited </span><em>The Amendment Herald</em><span>. Mary's personal network included President James A. Garfield, Universalist minister and author </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/65" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Phebe A. Hanaford</a><span>, astronomer Maria Mitchell, and educator Horace Mann.</span><br /><br /><span>She passed away on October 25, 1894.</span>
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BROTHERTON, Mrs. Alice Williams
<p><span>Alice Williams Brotherton was born in Cambridge, Indiana on April 4, 1848. Her </span><em>A Woman of the Century</em><span> profile notes the important roles that being raised in a home with books and a mother who encouraged writing played in setting Alice on the road to a writing career. In addition to being a prolific writer, Alice also devoted much time to being a mother and wife.</span><br /><br /><span>One of her passions was her work with women's clubs. In 1910, </span><em>The Guthrie Daily Leader</em><span> </span><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063952/1910-11-21/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1789&sort=date&rows=20&words=Alice+Brotherton+Williams&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=14&state=&date2=1924&proxtext=Alice+Williams+Brotherton&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a><span> on Alice's club work, noted her husband's reaction to hearing about it, and praised her writing:</span><br /><br /><span><strong>"Has A Thoughtful Husband</strong>. </span></p>
<p><span>Mrs. Alice Williams Brotherton, who is prominent as a club woman in Cincinnati, says that her husband declared that he was willing to hear clubs talked three times a day at meals, but he drew the line at curtain lectures on the subject. Mrs. Brotherton is a successful writer and has made quite a reputation as a poet."</span><br /><br /><span>Alice's work was published in periodicals such as </span><em>Aldine</em><span>, </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/23" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Atlantic Monthly</em></a><span>, </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/31"><em>Century</em></a><span>, </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/22" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Independent</em></a><span>, </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/121" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Magazine of Poetry</em></a><span>, </span><em>New England Magazine</em><span>, </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/32" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Scribner's Monthly</em></a><span>, and </span><em>St. Nicholas</em><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>She passed away on February 9, 1930, and was buried in Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery.</span></p>
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