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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BREWSTER, Miss Cora Belle
<span>Dr. Cora Belle Brewster was born in Almond, New York on September 6, 1859. She attended Alfred University and became a teacher in Smethport, Pennsylvania. Next, Cora Belle attended Northwestern University, where she decided to change career paths and went into business as a purchasing agent. A few years later, when she moved to Baltimore, Cora Belle began the study of medicine that led her to become a doctor. After starting at the Medical College for Women in Baltimore, she decided to move to Boston to study at The College of Physicians and Surgeons. Her training also included a stint at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.<br /><br />As Dr. Cora Belle began her medical career in the mid-1880s, she established a joint practice in Baltimore with</span><span> her sister Dr. Flora A. Brewster, another woman in </span><em>A Woman of the Century.</em><span> At the end of that decade, they published the </span><em>Baltimore Family Health Journal</em><span>, which later became </span><em>The Homeopathic Advocate and Health Journal</em><span>. In 1890, she became a gynecological surgeon at the new Maryland Homeopathic Hospital and Free Dispensary.</span><br /><br /><span>When Cora Belle spoke about "Heredity" at the 1895 Congress of Professional Women in Atlanta, </span><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025007/1895-11-14/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1789&index=3&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Belle+Brewster+Cora&proxdistance=5&date2=1963&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Cora+Belle+Brewster&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Alexandria Gazette</em></a><span> published many quotes from her address.</span><br /><br /><span>By 1899, her sanitarium was at 1027 Madison Avenue in Baltimore. The next June, she was in Washington, D.C. presenting a paper about "Reflex Ovarian Pain" at the annual conference of The American Institute of Homeopathy. Cora Belle was prominent in her field, and the 1907 </span><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1907-11-17/ed-1/seq-59/#words=%22Dr.%2BCora%2BBelle%22%2B%22dr.%2Bcora%2Bbelle%22%2B%22dr.%2Bcora%2Bbelle%22" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>New York Tribune</em></a><span> article called her "one of the foremost women physicians in the country."</span>
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LA FETRA, Mrs. Sarah Doan
<span>Sarah Doan La Fetra was born in Sabina, Ohio on June 11, 1843. After attending Alfred Holbrook's National Normal School in Ledyard, Ohio. Sarah was a teacher until her marriage to George H. La Fetra on October 6, 1867. </span><br /><br /><span>The La Fetra family moved to Washington, D.C., where they became members of the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church, and Sarah became very active in both mission and temperance activities. She was an early member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of DC. serving as its treasurer in 1881 and as its president by 1885. According to </span><a href="https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ#page/n447/mode/1up/search/11th+June" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>A Woman of the Century</em></a><span>, Sarah was manager of "a temperance hotel and cafe in the very heart of the city of Washington for many years" (</span><a href="https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ#page/n447/mode/1up/search/sabina" target="_blank" rel="noopener">443</a><span>). </span><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062244/1894-09-15/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1789&sort=date&rows=20&words=Fetra+La+Sarah&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=19&state=&date2=1924&proxtext=Sarah+La+Fetra&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Washington Times</em></a><span> notes that this was Temple Cafe on F. Street, and she later managed the Hotel Fredonia on I Street. In 1894, Sarah opened Hotel La Fetra on Eleventh and G Street (Streets of Washington). Sarah was still president on February 19, 1895, when she was asked to join </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/69" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frances Willard</a><span> and other world and national leaders of the W.C.T.U. in presenting a polyglot petition for prohibiting "drink traffic and the opium trade" to President Cleveland at the White House (</span><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1914-11-15/ed-1/seq-21/#date1=1789&index=1&rows=20&words=Fetra+La+Sarah&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1924&proxtext=Sarah+La+Fetra&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Washington Herald</em>, November 15, 1914</a><span>). In October of that year, she was named Superintendent of the new "Department of Christian Citizenship" at the World W.C.T.U.'s meeting in London. In the </span><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84027621/1895-10-30/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1789&index=2&rows=20&words=Fetra+La+Sarah&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1924&proxtext=Sarah+La+Fetra&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Ocala Evening Sta</em></a><span>r of October 30, 1895, Sarah gave a detailed definition of the "Christian citizenship" she wished to promote.</span><br /><br /><span>Also very active in missionary work, by the first decade of the twentieth century, Sarah was a leader in the Woman's Interdenominational Mission Union. On April 4, 1912, the Baltimore branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Association announced plans to build the Sarah Doane La Fetra Home in Bidar, India. This mission home was named to honor Sarah, the organization's vice president (</span><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1912-04-04/ed-1/seq-5/#date1=1789&index=4&rows=20&words=Fetra+La+Sarah&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1924&proxtext=Sarah+La+Fetra&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Washington Herald</em>, April 4, 1912</a><span>).</span><br /><br /><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1917-10-08/ed-1/seq-9/#date1=1789&sort=date&rows=20&words=Fetra+La+Sarah&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=5&state=&date2=1924&proxtext=Sarah+La+Fetra&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=10" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Evening Star</em></a><span> included a lengthy article about Mr. and Mrs. La Fetra's fiftieth wedding anniversary party, which was held on October 6, 1917. In addition to mentioning Sarah's leadership in the W.C.T.U., it noted that she "was also an originator of the work for fallen women in Washington, and has for many years been an active worker for the Hope and Help Mission, which was started by the W.C.T.U." According to the article, among those praising Sarah's work was Rosetta Lawson, "organizer of the national W.C.T.U. for colored people."</span><br /><br /><span>Sarah passed away on May 7, 1919. In addition to being remembered at her funeral, the W.C.T.U. honored Sarah at a memorial service. While she was no longer living, Sarah was not forgotten. According to the </span><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1922-11-30/ed-1/seq-12/#date1=1789&index=0&rows=20&words=Fetra+La+Sarah&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1924&proxtext=Sarah+La+Fetra&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Evening Star</em></a><span> of November 30, 1922, Sarah was nominated to be one of "the twenty-five great women who have achieved for this community before their deaths" whose names were to be on a column of the new Temple of Womanhood building of the Women's Universal Alliance.</span>
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FIFIELD, Mrs. Stella A. Gaines
<span>Stella A. Gaines Fifield was born in Paw Paw, Michigan on June 1, 1845. </span><span>She later lived in Taylor Falls, Minnesota and graduated from Chicago Seminary, Minnesota. </span><br /><br /><span>Early in her career, Stella was a teacher in Osceola WI, but she made her major mark in journalism. After marrying newspaper editor Samuel S. Fifield and starting a family, Stella wrote for <em>The Polk County Press</em>, a paper he edited. She also contributed to his next newspaper, <em>The Bayfield Press</em>. </span><span>In 1871,</span><em> </em><span>Samuel and Stella were two of the original settlers of Ashland, Wisconsin. When <em>The Bayfield Press</em> became </span><em>The Ashland Press</em><span> in 1872, Stella was affiliated with this paper. From 1877, when Sam started </span><em>The</em><span> </span><em>Bayfield Press</em><span> again, to 1880, she wrote for both papers. Speaking of Stella, the </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=kysEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=Stella+Grimes+Fifield&source=bl&ots=hUJrXedO0M&sig=AGu144dTTF1qHn5utKuDpCHvay0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQgNDsoZjUAhVJ2IMKHV-1CP0Q6AEISDAI#v=onepage&q=Stella%20Grimes%20Fifield&f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Commemorative Biographical Record of the Upper Lake Region</em><span> </span></a><span>noted: "she was and is not only a writer of ability, but was capable of rendering practical assistance in the typographical work of the newspaper office" (4).</span><br /><br /><span>The Fifields lived at Evergreen, a beautiful home in Ashland. Samuel became postmaster and was involved in politics. In 1881, he became Lieutenant Governor. Stella served as a leader in the Ashland Chapter of the Chippewa Presbytery and was active in various charitable associations. </span><br /><br /><span>Stella and Sam established a camping resort, Camp Stella, on Sand Island in 1886. As Jane Celia Busch explains:</span><br /><br /><span>"Sam Fifield and his wife Stella began to camp on Sand Island in 1881....In 1886 they camped on the property which became Camp Stella, and soon after they purchased the property and began developing a permanent camp. While the Fifields sought relief on Sand Island for Stella's hay fever, their camping vacations were part of a popular trend...Organized, communal camps such as Camp Stella offered a more civilized camping experience, with hired help to do the work and other guests to share in recreational activities...It was an affluent, often prominent, clientele....Sam Fifield's yacht <em>Stella</em> was used for transportation from the mainland and for pleasure cruises around the islands" (310-311).</span><br /><br /><span>The Fifields also enjoyed trips with others. In August of 1890, along with Sam and other members of the Wisconsin Press Association, Stella boarded a Pullman sleeper car on the Northern Pacific Railroad for a </span><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033078/1890-08-14/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1789&index=1&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Fifield+Mrs+Sam&proxdistance=5&date2=1963&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Mrs.+Sam+Fifield&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trip</a><span> to Yellowstone National Park. </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/19176" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ella A. Giles</a><span>, a poet whose profile also appears in </span><em>A Woman of the Century</em><span>, was in Stella's sleeper car during the trip. Interested in leading and in promoting women, Stella served as a member of the Wisconsin </span><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033781/1891-12-09/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1789&sort=date&date2=1963&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=2&words=Grimes+Stella&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Stella+Grimes&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Board of Lady Managers</a><span> for the Columbian Exposition during the first half of the 1890s.</span><br /><span> </span><br /><span>Stella and Sam continued to enjoy their time on Sand Island. On June 26, 1909, she celebrated Sam's seventieth birthday there with him and numerous guests. After Stella passed away in 1913, she was buried in Ashland's Mount Hope Cemetery.</span>
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KENDRICK, Mrs. Ella Bagnell
<span>Ella Bagnell Kendrick, a native of Plymouth, Massachusetts, graduated from Plymouth High School when she was just sixteen. After she married, she moved to Meriden, Connecticut and lived in that state for the rest of her life. Having a keen interest in science, she was very involved with the Meriden Scientific Association.</span><br /><br /><span>While her </span><em>A Woman of the Century</em><span> profile heading lists Ella as a temperance reformer, she was involved in many activities and causes. </span><br /><br /><span>Just as she had worked with her husband's business when she lived in Meriden, Ella became associate editor of her husband's periodical, </span><em>New England Home</em><span>, when they settled in Hartford. She utilized her editorial experience in 1899 when she became editor of </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/talkstales6111unse" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Talks and Tales</em></a><span>, "a monthly magazine composed as to text and type entirely by the blind" (</span><em>Evening Star</em><span>,</span><em> </em><span>December 28, 1899).</span><br /><br /><span>An education advocate, Ella wrote to </span><em>Woman's Journal</em><span> in 1896 about the many Connecticut women involved on educational boards in the state.</span><br /><br /><span>Also a supporter of women's rights, she was an active member of the Equal Rights Association and was corresponding secretary of the Connecticut Woman's Suffrage Association. In 1896 and 1897, she was very involved with the movement by the Equal Rights Association to erect a statue in Hartford in honor of Harriet Beecher Stowe.</span><br /><br /><span>Her work for the temperance cause involved being a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and a leader of the Prohibition Party in Meriden, New Haven, and Hartford. She spoke about temperance at the 1907 New Haven County W.C.T.U. meeting and about "Women As Citizens" at the 1922 meeting. In addition, she was Superintendent of the Demorest Medal Contests.</span><br /><br /><span>Ella combined her interests in women's rights and temperance by speaking on 'How to Use the Ballot" at the W.C.T. U. Institute in June, 1916. The</span><em> Norwich Bulletin</em><span> reported: "[s]he gave a most interesting talk, citing instances to show the way it has been used for good in many places."</span><br /><span> </span><br /><span>She also joined with women of her Unitarian faith, being a member of the Connecticut Valley Associate Alliance of Unitarian Women and speaking at its 1922 conference.</span><br /><br /><span>As Ella's </span><em>A Woman of the Century</em><span> profile notes, "She is a woman of active habits and strong character, and she makes her influence felt in any cause that enlists her sympathies" (434).</span>
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HILL, Mrs. Eliza Trask
<span>Eliza </span><span class="il">Trask</span><span> 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.</span><br /><br /><span>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. </span><br /><br /><span>Despite her domestic responsibilities, Eliza found time to toil for the many causes she believed in. As her </span><em>A Woman of the Century</em><span> 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 </span><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1887-07-28/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1789&sort=date&date2=1963&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=2&words=Eliza+Trask&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Eliza+Trask&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a><span> in the </span><em>St. Johnsbury Caledonian</em><span> 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.</span><br /><br /><span>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.</span><br /><br /><span>An ardent advocate of public education, Eliza was the founder and editor of </span><em>Woman's Voice and Public School Champion. </em><span>She was elected to </span><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89098887490;view=1up;seq=59" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id%3Dwu.89098887490;view%3D1up;seq%3D59&source=gmail&ust=1508080485684000&usg=AFQjCNEQNiIYY2_hnnuPHwNJ0rJEGnRhwg" rel="noopener">membership </a><span>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 </span><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015289/1891-09-26/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1789&sort=date&date2=1963&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=3&words=Eliza+Trask&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Eliza+Trask&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rally</a><span> related to the upcoming school committee election.</span><br /><br /><span>Eliza also continued to advocate for reforms. In late November of 1898, </span><em><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015679/1898-11-26/ed-1/seq-6/#date1=1789&sort=date&date2=1963&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=7&words=Eliza+Trask&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Eliza+Trask&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Indianapolis Journal</a></em><span> announced her upcoming talk, "Glimpses of Prison Life." Two days later, the newspaper published a lengthy </span><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015679/1898-11-28/ed-1/seq-8/#date1=1789&sort=date&date2=1963&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=8&words=ELIZA+Eliza+TRASK+Trask&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Eliza+Trask&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">review</a><span> 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.</span><br /><br /><span>She passed away at her home in Somerville, Massachusetts on March 29, 1908, and was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.</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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DAVENPORT, Fanny Lily Gipsy
<p><span>Fanny Lily Gipsy Davenport, </span><span>born on April 10, 1850, </span><span>hailed from London, England. She was a popular actress who had her own theatre company. Like </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/46" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lotta Crabtree</a><span> and many other actors and actresses, Fanny thrilled audiences throughout the country during her acting tours.</span></p>
<p><span>She passed away in South Duxbury, Massachusetts, on September 26, 1898, and was buried in Jamaica Plain's Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory.</span></p>
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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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CAMERON, Mrs. Elizabeth
<span>Elizabeth Millar Cameron, an editor, a publisher, and a temperance and women's rights reformer, was born in Niagara, Ontario, Canada on March 8, 1851, to Scottish parents. She married John Cameron and became the mother of five children. The Camerons lived in London, Ontario, Canada.</span><br /><br /><span>Bessie, as she was known, and </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/86" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Agnes Ethelwn Wetherald</a><span> worked together as publishers of the journal </span><em>Our Wives and Daughters</em><span>. As Elizabeth's </span><em>A Woman of the Century</em><span> </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/womanofcenturyfo00will/page/146/mode/1up?q=Cameron" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a><span> notes: </span><br /><br /><span>"As presiding genius of that journal, her mission has been and is to stimulate women to become, not only housekeepers in the highest sense, but to be better furnished mentally by systematic good reading, more intelligent as mothers, well informed concerning the chief wants of the day and thoroughly equipped intellectually and spiritually for all the duties of womanhood" (146).</span><br /><br /><span>When she wasn't working to fulfill that ambitious goal, Elizabeth was serving as a leader in the London Woman's Christian Temperance Union, participating in women's reading groups, and spending time with her family.</span><br /><br /><span>Bessie moved to Port Huron, Michigan, in 1927. She passed away in Evanston, Illinois on November 17, 1929, and was buried in Chicago, Illinois.</span>
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WAIT, Mrs. Anna C.
<p>Born Anna A. Churchill, on March 26, 1837 in Medina County, Ohio, suffargist, orator, teacher and newspaper owner Mrs. Anna C. Wait was a notable woman. An early entrepreneur, from the age of eleven she prided herself in being self-supporting.</p>
<p>Married at the early age of twenty to Walter S. Wait, on December 13, 1857. At the outbreak of the Civil War, her husband enlisted and being the sole caregiver for their son, Alfred Hovey Wait, she provided for them both by teaching.</p>
<p>Due to her husband's poor health, she had to forsake teaching and get involved in the Lincoln "Beacon" a reform paper they started in 1880. </p>
<p>She played an active role in the business world, advocated for social change on equality among other pursuits. She died on May 9, 1916.</p>
<p>During her life, Mrs. Wait actively participated in the Lincoln, Kansas Woman Suffrage Association and the Ohio Equal Suffrage Association. Mrs. Anna Wait performed many official roles in thse suffrage organizations as well as in the State Equal Suffrage Association, in 1884. Her advocacy led to the passing of suffrage legislation in Kansas bestowing municipal suffrage on women there.</p>
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CUMMINGS, Mrs. Alma Carrie
<p><span>Alma Carrie Cummings was born in Columbia, New Hampshire on March 21, 1857. She married Edwin S. Cummings when she was seventeen. They started a family, and he worked as a newspaper owner. </span><br /><br /><span>As her </span><em>A Woman of the Century</em><span> </span><a href="https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ#page/n223/mode/2up/search/cummings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a><span> explains, once Edwin was proprietor of the <em>News and Sentinel</em>, Alma spent her days at the paper. When her husband passed away in 1887, Alma took over and became a very successful editor and proprietor. </span><br /><br /><span>Writing about Alma in 1895, the </span><em>Essex County Herald</em><span> of Guildhall, Vermont </span><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023416/1895-06-28/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1789&index=0&date2=1924&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Cummings+News+Sentinel&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=Cummings+News+Sentinel&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a><span>:</span></p>
<p><span>"We called on Mrs. Cummings of the News and Sentinel last Monday, and found her as usual driven with work. Besides her editorial work and printing business she finds time to do some very beautiful painting and embroidery."</span><br /><br /><span>By 1906, Alma's son Harry was part of the team at the Colebrook News and Sentinel.</span><br /><br /><span>That she continued her interests in both editorial and handwork is evident from her listings as "Editor and Conductor" in the 1910 census and "Dress Maker" in the 1920 census.</span><br /><br /><span>Alma passed away in Colebrook, New Hampshire on January 13, 1926, and was buried in </span><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103269695" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colebrook Village Cemetery</a><span>.</span></p>
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CHARLES, Mrs. Emily Thornton
<p>Mrs. Emily Thornton Charles was a prodigious author, poet, journalist and editor. Emily, born in Lafayette, Indiana on March 21st, 1845, liked to write in rhyme as a child and was recognized for her writing skills and her ease at expressing herself. <br /><br />She attended the free schools of Indianapolis and at the age of sixteen she became a teacher. However, she did not begin publishing until the death of her husband, Daniel B. Charles, a well-known business man in Indianapolis. Mrs. Charles was left a widow at twenty-four years of age, in 1874. At that time she was in poor health. As the provider for two children, she realized she needed a career and discovered she could convert her facility with writing into a successful career in newspapers.</p>
<p>From there she went on in 1876 to publish her first work <em>Hawthorne Blossoms</em>, in Philadelphia. She wrote under the name Emily Thornton and under the nom de plume: Hawthorne. She has the distinction of establishing and operating "The National Veteran" in Washington, D.C. Due to her absorption in her work in 1883, she became overwrought and was confined to her bed. Not one to be idle, Emily Thornton Charles used this time to revise and edit her poetry. The result was <em>Lyrical Poems</em> (Philadelphia, 1886) a 300-page book that established her as a national poet. At the same time she became a popular lecturer/public speaker, addressing large gatherings, including the National Women's Suffrage Convention with her poetical address "Women's Sphere". Her oratory was such that in 1893, she was selected as a speaker in the World's Columbian Exposition.</p>
<p>Emily was a member of the National Women's Press Association, The Grand Army of the Republic and Order of the Eastern Star.</p>
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BRADWELL, Mrs. Myra
<p><span>Myra Bradwell, a native of Manchester, Vermont, who was born on February 12, 1831, was one the most well-known female lawyers of the nineteenth century. As a pioneer in the field, she created and argued for important legal rights, including "the law giving married women their own earnings" (115). </span><br /><br /><span>In addition to being a lawyer, Myra also edited the Chicago </span><em>Legal News</em><span> in the city where she spent most of her life.</span><br /><br /><span>A philanthropist, Bradwell supported the South Evanston Industrial School and worked for the Sanitary Commission.</span><br /><br /><span>She was a member of a number of organizations, including Illinois Bar Association, the American Woman Suffrage Association, the Illinois Press Association, and Soldiers' Home Board.</span></p>
<p><span>Myra passed away on Valentine’s Day in 1894. She was buried in Chicago’s Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum.</span></p>
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CARSE, Mrs. Matilda B.
Matilda B. Carse, a Belfast, Ireland native, <span>was born on November 19, 1835. She </span>became involved with the temperance cause after the tragic death of her young son due to a drunken wagon driver. For the rest of her life, this philanthropist toiled for temperance reform and supported many other causes.<br /><br />As a very active member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Matilda, sometimes referred to as Tillie, worked closely with <a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/69" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frances Elizabeth Willard</a> and <a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/47" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julia A. Ames</a>. She served as President of the Chicago W.C.T.U. and led the Woman's Christian Temperance Publishing Association. One of Tillie's greatest achievements was gaining the funding for and ensuring the creation of the Temperance Temple in Chicago. <br /><br />Along with its founder Dr. George E. Shipman, Matilda raised money for the Chicago Foundlings Home, an organization devoting to aiding orphaned children.<br /><br />After her retirement, she lived in Park Hill-on-the-Hudson, New York with her son David. Tillie passed away on June 3, 1917, and was buried in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois.
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PLUMB, Levancia Holcomb
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<span>Levancia Holcomb Plumb was born in Sand Lake, NY on June 23, 1841. but she lived in Illinois for most of her life. She attended Oberlin College, graduating in 1861. On December 6, 1866, Levancia married Samuel H. Plumb in Lorain, OH. They became the parents of three daughters and a son, and he family lived in Streator, IL.</span><br /><br /><span>She was a well-respected businesswoman and bank president who was affiliated with </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/69" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frances E. Willard<span> </span></a><span>and worked closely with </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/47" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julia A. Ames</a><span>.</span><br /><br /><span>Levancia passed away in Streetor, IL, where she had lived for fifty years, on April 10, 1923.</span>
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