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

Pennsylvania

Asylum, PA

BITTENBENDER, Mrs. Ada M.

lawyer and reformer

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Beaver, PA

CHAPMAN, Miss Millie Jane

doctor of medicine

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Brownsville, PA

GILLESPIE, Miss Eliza Maria, known in the Roman Catholic Church as Mother Mary of Saint Angela

religious devotee

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p. 320-321

Cashtown, PA

MARK, Miss Nellie V.

physician

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p. 493-494

Clarion Cty, PA

BONES, Mrs. Marietta M.

woman suffragist and social reformer

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Cochrane Mills, PA

COCHRANE, Miss Elizabeth

May 5, 1867

author, journalist and traveler

In progress

p. 186-187

Columbus, PA

BABCOCK, Mrs. Elnora Monroe

woman suffragist

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Erie, PA

AUSTIN, Mrs. Harriet Bunker

author

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p. 35

Erie, PA

VICTOR, Mrs. Metta Victoria Fuller

author

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p. 734-735

Erie County, PA

GORDON, Mrs. 1atira De Force

August 13, 1838

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p. 327

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Germantown, PA

ALCOTT, Miss Louisa May

November 29, 1832

author

In progress

p. 12-13

Germantown, PA

GRIFFITH, Mrs. Mary Lillian

October 5, 1854

philanthropist and author

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p. 342

Hanover, PA

BERRY, Mrs. Adaline Hohf

author

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Harrisburg, PA

KEMP, Mrs. Agnes Nininger

physician

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Honesdale, PA

BROWNSCOMBE, Miss Jennie

artist

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Johnstown, PA

DAVIS, Minta S. A.

physician and surgeon

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Kennett Square, PA

FUSSELL, Miss Susan

educator, army nurse, and philanthropist

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p. 307-308

Kimberton, PA

LIPPINCOTT, Mrs. Esther J. Trimble

educator and reformer

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p. 464

Laurelton, Union County, PA

DIEHL, Miss Cora Victoria

register of deeds

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Le Raysville, PA

CHANDLER, Mrs. Mary Alderson

educator

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Meadville, PA

BUSH, Mrs. Jennie Burchfield

author

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Milford, PA

CARPENTER, Mrs. Alice Dimmick

traveler

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Northumberland, PA

CLARK, Mrs. Helen Taggert

journalist

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Philadelphia, PA

ALBRIGHT, Mrs. Eliza Downing

church and temperance worker

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Philadelphia, PA

ARMBRUSTER, Mrs. Sara Dary

business woman and publisher

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Philadelphia, PA

BOUGHTON, Mrs. Caroline Greenbank

educator and philanthropist

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Philadelphia, PA

COATES, Mrs. Florence Earle

poet

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p. 184-185

Philadelphia, PA

COHEN, Miss Mary M.

social economist

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Philadelphia, PA

CROSS, Mrs. Kate Smeed

social leader

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Philadelphia, PA

DICKINSON, Mrs. Anna Elizabeth

October 28, 1842

orator, author, playwright, actor, reformer, philanthropist

In progress

p. 241-242

Philadelphia, PA

DONNELLY, Miss Eleanor Cecilia

poet

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Philadelphia, PA

GILDER, Miss Jeannette Leonard

journalist

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Philadelphia, PA

PRESTON, Mrs. Margaret Junkin

poet

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Philadelphia, PA

WALWORTH, Mrs. Jeanette Ritchie

author

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Philadelphia, PA

WIGGIN, Mrs. Kate Douglas

philanthropist and author

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Pittsburgh, PA

AVERY, Mrs. Rachel Foster

December 30, 1858

woman suffragist

In progress

p. 37-38

Pittsburgh, PA

BAXTER, Mrs. Annie White

business woman

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p. 64-65

Pittsburgh, PA

DELAND, Mrs. Margaret

poet and novelist

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Pottsville, PA

HAMMER, Mrs. Anna Maria Nichols

September 14, 1840

temperance worker

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p. 354

Reading, PA

DICKINSON, Miss Susan E.

journalist

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Robeson Township, Berks County, PA

DIXON, Mrs. Mary J. Scarlett

October 23, 1822

physician

In progress

p. 246

Scranton, PA

SCRANTON, Miss Lida

July 20, 1868

social leader

In progress

p. 637 (photo) and 638

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Shelocta, PA

LOWMAN, Mrs. Mary D.

January 27, 1842

municipal officer

In progress

p. 476

Silver Creek, PA

BEASLEY, Mrs. Marie Wilson

elocutionist and dramatic reader

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Troy, PA

BALLARD, Miss Mary Canfield

poet

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Uwchland, PA

OBERHOLTZER, Mrs. Sara Louisa Vickers

poet and economist

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Valley Forge, PA

BRADEN, Mrs. Anna Madge

author

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Washington, PA

ACHESON, Mrs. Sarah C.

February 20, 1844

temperance worker

Needs additional research and synthesis

p. 3-4

Washington, PA

DAVIS, Mrs. Rebecca Harding

author

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West Grove, PA

PRESTON, Miss Ann

physician

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Wilkes Barre, PA

CRANE, Mrs. Mary Helen Peck

April 10, 1827

church and temperance worker

In progress

p. 213-214