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A Woman of the Century:   A Crowdsourcing Project of the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries

Illinois

Atlanta, IL

COPP, Mrs. Helen Rankin

sculptor

Available

p. 207

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Chicago, IL

ABBOTT, Emma

December 9, 1850

prima donna

In progress

p. 2-3

Chicago, IL

AYER, Mrs. Harriet Hubbard

business woman and journalist

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p. 39-40

Chicago, IL

BROWN, Mrs. Corinne Stubbs

socialist

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p. 126

Chicago, IL

NICHOLS, Mrs. Minerva Parker

architect

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p. 536-537

Decatur, IL

BAKER, Miss Ida Wikoff

business woman

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p. 46

Dixon, IL

WALSWORTH, Mrs. Minnie Gow

poet

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p. 743

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Galena, IL

CARTWRIGHT, Mrs. Florence Byrne

December 27, 1863

poet

In progress

p. 157-158

Galva, IL

BABCOCK, Mrs. Helen Louise B.

dramatic reader

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p. 41

Gillespie, IL

BARTLETT, Mrs. Maud Whitehead

educator

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p. 60

Hennepin, IL

BALL, Mrs. Isabel Worrell

pioneer woman journalist of the West

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p. 49-50

Henry, IL

CULTON, Miss Jessie F.

journalist

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p. 219

Lacon, IL

RICHMOND, Miss Lizzie R.

business woman and insurance agent

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p. 608

Magnolia, IL

BONHAM, Mrs. Mildred A.

traveler and journalist

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p. 105-106

Marseilles, IL

RENFREW, Miss Carrie

poet and biographer

Available

p. 604

Morris, IL

DAVIS, Mrs. Jessie Bartlett

prima donna contralto

Available

p. 230-231

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Nauvoo,  IL

COOLBRITH, Mrs. Ina Donna

March 10, 1841

poet

In progress

p. 204-205

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Nauvoo,  IL

WILLARD, Mrs. Allie C.

April 13, 1860

journalist and business woman

In progress

p. 775-776

New Rochelle, Ogle County, IL

BAKER, Miss Joanna

linguist and educator

Available

p. 46-48

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Odell, IL

AMES, Miss Julia A.

October 14, 1861

editor and temperance reformer

In progress

p. 23

Pavilion, IL

BREED, Mrs. Alice Ives

social leader

Available

p. 118

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Peoria County, IL

HOLMES, Mrs. Mary Emma

August 3, 1839

woman suffragist

In progress

p. 389-390

Peru, IL

BUSHNELL, Miss Kate

physician and evangelist

Available

p. 141-142

Roseville, Warren County, IL

DEVOE, Mrs. Emma Smith

August 22, 1849

woman suffragist

Available

p. 239

Tremont, IL

SHAW, Mrs. Cornelia Dean

February 18, 1845

woman suffragist

Available

p. 649