In 1873 Ferguson and another Mount Holyoke graduate (1862), Anna Bliss, moved to Cape Town, South Africa and established the first women's college
in the region, Huguenot College in 1898. Abbie Park Ferguson was
president of Huguenot College (which eventually became Huguenot
University College) until her retirement in 1910.She took a leave to return to the United States from 1905 to 1906
during which time she received an M.A. from Mount Holyoke. In 1912,
Mount Holyoke honored her with a Doctor of Letters.She died at Huguenot on March 25, 1919, aged 82..."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbie_Park_Ferguson
1869: Anna Elizabeth Broomall admitted to Pennsylvania Hospital to study medicine
1872: Mary Coffin Ware Dennett born
"...American women's rights activist, pacifist, homeopath, and pioneer in the areas of birth control, sex education, and women's suffrage. She co-founded the Voluntary Parenthood League,
served in the National American Women's Suffrage Association,
co-founded the Twilight Sleep Association, and wrote a famous pamphlet
on sex education and birth control....
...After William Sanger's arrest for distributing birth control information
inspired a resurgence in the American birth control movement, Dennett
co-founded The National Birth Control League in 1915 with Jesse Ashley and Clara Gruening Stillman.[29]
Dennett decided to start by rallying public support to strike down laws
restricting birth control information. Later, as the NBCL faltered, she
resigned as executive secretary and founded a new organization, the Voluntary Parenthood League. [30] She used methods like lobbying and lectures to promote the cause...."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Dennett
Frazier served in the Nevada Assembly from her first election in 1950 until 1962, when she was appointed Lieutenant Governor by Gov. Grant Sawyer to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rex Bell. She served the remaining six months in Bell's term, retired and died within a year of leaving office.[3]In the legislature, Frazier was the driving force behind the
establishment of the first public college in southern Nevada, which
eventually became the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The first building on the campus was named Maude Frazier Hall and completed in 1957.[2]..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude_Frazier
1889: Dorothy Lerner Gordon, an American musician, broadcaster and writer, born.
"...n 1923, she began her broadcasting career when the Women’s League of
the United Synagogue of America invited her to do a recital of folk
songs on the radio. During the 1920s, however, Gordon saw radio
primarily as a means of advertising. As she traveled around the country
performing, she would stop at local radio stations for an interview and
perhaps sing a few songs. At first, she disliked the medium because she
felt that performers needed contact with their audience. But by the
1930s, as she witnessed the potential reach and educational benefits of
radio, she became a strong advocate.
During the 1930s, she moved more directly into commercial radio. She became the musical director of the American School of the Air,
a five-day-a-week program that examined a different topic each
day—history, geography, science, current events, and music. She was the
“Song and Story Lady” on the Children’s Corner, where she narrated and dramatized folk stories. As well, in 1939 she produced Yesterday’s Children,
a program that featured the favorite childhood books of a famous
person. After telling or dramatizing the story, Gordon would have that
week’s guest explain why he or she had loved that story as a child.
Throughout this period, Gordon continued to tour the country doing live
performances. It was on these tours that she discovered the breadth of
the radio audience. Radio, she learned, was bringing literature and
music to rural Americans...."http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gordon-dorothy-lerner
1931: Anna Elizabeth Broomall, a medical educator, obsestricist and gynecologist, died .
"...Dr. Broomall was professor of obstetrics for the next twenty years, also
acting as a gynecologist for the Quaker-run Friend's Asylum for the
Insane in Philadelphia. She published several case studies based on her
work and undertook an extensive inspection and public lecture tour which
took her as far as India and Asia to visit former students on
missionary duty there. Dr. Broomall retired from practice in 1903,
volunteering instead as librarian and curator at the Delaware County
Historical Society. Given her goals and the obstacles she faced, it
should be no surprise that Broomall was described as a tough teacher,
even "alarming," in her drive to instill in students a sense of the
obstetrician's responsibility to patients...." http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_45.html
1984: Authorities broke up the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp (Berkshire, England) (story)
1758: Mary Jemison ("White Woman of the Genesee") captured by French soldiers and Shawnee Indians, later sold to the Senecas who adopted her . Thouh she had chanced to leave the Senecas later in life, she didn't do it.
1825: Mary Jane Hawes Holmes, an American novelist, born .
"...Mary Jane Holmes (April 5, 1825 – October 6, 1907)[1]
was a bestselling and prolific American author who published 39 popular
novels, as well as short stories. Her first novel sold 250,000 copies;
and she had total sales of 2 million books in her lifetime, second only
to Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Portraying domestic life in small town and rural settings, she
examined gender relationships, as well as those of class and race. She
also dealt with slavery and the American Civil War,
with a strong sense of moral justice. Since the late 20th century, she
has received fresh recognition and reappraisal, although her popular
work was excluded from most 19th-century literary histories compiled by
men...."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jane_Holmes
"... a dedicated pediatrician, medical educator, and
researcher in microbiology, won international recognition for deriving a
serum to combat influenzal meningitis, a common disease that previously
had been nearly always fatal to infants and young children. Alexander
subsequently investigated microbiological genetics and the processes
whereby bacteria, through genetic mutation, acquire resistance to
antibiotics. In 1964, as president of the American Pediatric Society,
she became one of the first women to head a nationalmedical association.,,,"
1807: Jane Maria Eliza McManus Caneau , an American journalist, lobbyist and publicist, born
"...With the outbreak of the Mexican-American War, she went to the front, where she witnessed Winfield Scott's capture of the fortress of Vera Cruz in March 1847, the first female war correspondent in American history. At the end of the Mexican-American War she turned her attention to Cuba,
and the potential it represented, advocating its annexation, and
denouncing its Spanish colonial overlords. She later settled at Eagle Pass, a frontier village three hundred miles up the Rio Grande from the Gulf of Mexico, getting to know many of the local Indian chiefs...." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Cazneau
1863: Kate Macy Ladd, a philanthropist who founded and endowed the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation in honor of her father, born
1867: Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead , a pioneering feminist and obsestritian, born
"...Hurd-Mead was one of the original founders and the consulting gynecologist at the Middlesex County Hospital in Connecticut from 1907 until her retirement in 1925.[3]She also helped to organize the Middletown District Nurses
Association (1900), was vice president of the State Medical Society of
Connecticut (1913-1914), president of the American Medical Women's Association, and organizer of the Medical Women's International Association (1919).
At a meeting of the Johns Hopkins Historical Club in 1890 she had
become interested in the history of women physicians. She conducted
extensive research and published Medical Women of America (1933) and in 1938 the first comprehensive history of women's role in medicine, A History of Women in Medicine: From the Earliest of Times to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century.[4]
She argued strongly for the real existence of Trotula,
the Sicilian woman physician of the Middle Ages, who some historians
had tried to argue was not a real person but a name for a collection of
works.[5]Dr. Hurd-Mead died at the age of 73 in a bushfire near her home while trying to assist her caretaker who also died in the fire.[2].." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Campbell_Hurd-Mead
1141: the Empress Matilda
was proclaimed Lady of the English ("domina anglorum" or "Anglorum
Domina" or "Angliae Normanniaeque domina") by a clergy council at
Winchester, supported by the Bishop of Winchester, Henry of Blois,
brother of Stephen, who had seized the throne despite Matilda's claim to
it as her father's named successor
"...Albion Fellows Bacon (1865-1933), writer and reformer, was born in
Evansville, Indiana, where she actively worked with local charities, two
of which evolved into the YWCA and the Visiting Nurse Association. She
is most noted for her vigorous campaign to improve substandard housing,
persuading the Indiana legislature to pass a housing reform bill in the
early twentieth century. Bacon was also involved with the Indiana Child
Welfare Association and the Commission on Child Welfare, as well as
other social agencies. Some of her writings recount her career as a
reformer, while others relate her spiritual experiences. Bacon was the
sister of Annie Fellows Johnston, an author who achieved national
acclaim for her Little Colonel series, which was later converted to
films starring Shirley Temple...."http://www.willard.lib.in.us/programs_and_services/archives/primary_source_manuscripts.php
"...Dean, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1967-1973 Chairman, Department of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1967 - 1974 Chairman, Department of Nutrition (SPHTM), 1967 - 1969
Dr. Goldsmith was internationally recognized as a clinical nutritionist and
authority on dietary diseases. Her work established niacin deficiency as the
cause of pellagra and also established the metabolism and minimum requirements
for tryptophan and niacin.
In addition, Dr. Goldsmith was:
responsible for clarification of the specific roles of folic acid
and vitamin B-12 in the diet
established criteria for evaluating nutritional
status pertaining to anemias
an early advocate of the relationship between atherosclerosis
and dietary fat and lipids
1483: King Edward IV died, leaving his wife, Elizabeth Woodville, without the ability to protect her son Edward's claim to the throne.
1484: Edward, Prince of Wales, the only son of Richard III and Anne Neville, died, leaving Richard without any sons (or daughters) as heirs.
1827: Maria Susanna Cummins, an American novelist, born
"...Maria Susanna Cummins was born in Salem, Massachusetts,
on April 9, 1827. She was the daughter of Honorable David Cummins and
Maria F. Kittredge, and was the eldest of four children from that
marriage. The Cummins family resided in the neighborhood of Dorchester in Boston, Massachusetts.
Cummins' father encouraged her to become a writer at an early age. She
studied at Mrs. Charles Sedgwick's Young Ladies School in Lenox,
Massachusetts.[1]
In 1854, she published the novel The Lamplighter,
a sentimental book which was widely popular and which made its author
well-known. One reviewer called it "one of the most original and natural
narratives".[2] Within eight weeks, it sold 40,000 copies and totaled 70,000 by the end of its first year in print.[3] She wrote other books, including Mabel Vaughan (1857), none of which had the same success. Cummins also published in some of the popular periodicals of her day...."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Susanna_Cummins
"...Dorothy Anna Hahn was born on April 9, 1876 in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. Her father, Carl S. Hahn, born in Germany, was a
teacher and a scholar and her mother was Mary Deborah Beaver Hahn.
Hahn attended Bryn Mawr College from 1895-1899, graduating with a
B.A. in 1899. She taught at Pennsylvania College for Women from
1899-1906. Hahn attended the Universitat Leipzig from 1906-1907, and
was a Fellow at Bryn Mawr College from 1907-1908. She received a
Ph.D. from Yale University in 1916. Hahn was a member of the Mount
Holyoke College faculty in the Chemistry Department from 1908 until
her retirement in June 1941. Hahn wrote many publications and
co-authored three books in the field of organic chemistry. She was
seventy-four years old when she died on December 10, 1950 in South
Hadley, Massachusetts...." http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/arch/col/msrg/mancol/ms0786r.htm
1939: Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial in a free concert on Easter Sunday, after the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) refused her permission to sing at Constitution Hall. Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the DAR in protest.
628: a total eclipse is blamed for the death of Empress Suiko
in Japan
1835: Ellen Louise Chandler Moulton born
"..She was born in 1835, the daughter of Lucius L. Chandler, in Pomfret, Connecticut.
In 1855, she married a Boston publisher, William U. Moulton (d. 1898),
under whose auspices her earliest literary work had appeared in The True Flag. Her first volume of collected verse and prose, This, That and the Other (1854), was followed by a story, Juno Clifford (1855), and by My Third Book (1859); her literary output was then interrupted until 1873 when she resumed activity with Bed-time Stories, the first of a series of volumes, including Firelight Stories (1883) and Stories told at Twilight (1890).[1]
Meanwhile she had taken an important place in American literary society, writing regular critiques for the New York Tribune from 1870 to 1876 and a weekly literary letter for the Sunday issue of the Boston Herald from 1886 to 1892. In 1876 she published a volume of notable Poems (renamed Swallow flights
in the English edition of 1877) and visited Europe, where she began
close and lasting friendships with leading men and women of letters.[1]
Thenceforward she spent the summers in London and the rest of the year in Boston, where her salon was one of the principal resorts of literary talent. In 1889 another volume of verse, In the Garden of Dreams, confirmed her reputation as a poet. She also wrote several volumes of prose fiction, including Miss Eyre from Boston and Other Stories, and some descriptions of travel, including Lazy Tours in Spain
(1896). She was well known for the extent of her literary influence,
the result of a sympathetic personality combined with fine critical
taste. She died in Boston on 10 August 1908.[1]..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Chandler_Moulton
1850: Fanny Lily Gypsy Davenport, an American stage actress, born
"...The daughter of Edward Loomis Davenport and Fanny Vining, she was born in London, England, but was brought to America when a child and educated in the Boston public schools. When seven years old she appeared at the Howard Athenæum in Boston, as the child of Metamora, but her real début occurred in 1862.
In February, 1862, she appeared in New York at Niblo's Garden at the age of twelve as the King of Spain in Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady. Later (1869) she was a member of Augustin Daly's company; and afterwards, with a company of her own, acted with especial success in Sardou'sFedora (1883), Cleopatra (1890), and similar plays. She took over emotional Sardou roles that had been originated in Europe by Sarah Bernhardt. Her last appearance was in Chicago at the Grand Opera House on the 25th of March 1898, shortly before her death.
Her first husband was Edwin B. Price, an actor. They married in 1879
and later divorced. She was the wife of Mr. Willet Melbourne MacDowell
(later a silent movie actor), her second husband, whom she married in
1889. She died in Duxbury, Massachusetts. She was the aunt of actress Dorothy Davenport... " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Davenport
While she was president of Wellesley College from 1949 until her
retirement in 1966, the college's resources and facilities were expanded
substantially. Clapp was a strong advocate of careers for women.After leaving Wellesley, Clapp served briefly as administrator of Lady Doak College, a women's college in Madurai, India, then as United States cultural attaché to India, then as minister-councilor of public affairs in the United States Information Agency until her retirement in 1971. The library at Wellesley is named for her.[3]..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Clapp
1930: Dolores Huerta , an American labor leader and civil rights activist, born
1864: Lizzie Plummer Bliss, and American art collector and patron, and a co-fpundre of the Museum for Modern Art, born.
"...At the end of May 1929, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller invited her friends
Lillie P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan for lunch in order to discuss
the establishment of a museum of modern art. Another invited guest was
art collector A. Conger Goodyear, who had previously served as a board
member of the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo,
and who also participated in the meeting. Goodyear agreed to chair this
circle as president, Lillie P. Bliss became his deputy and Abby Aldrich
Rockefeller was given the role of treasurer. A short time later they
were joined by art historian and collector Paul J. Sachs, a friend of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, publisher Frank Crowninshield, a friend of Lillie P. Bliss, and Josephine Porter Boardman,
a friend both to Bliss and Rockefeller, who hosted a literary salon in
New York. On November 7, the first exhibition of the Museum of Modern
Art opened in rented spaces in the Heckscher Building at 730 Fifth
Avenue (corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street) in Manhattan. To the
first exhibition of Post-Impressionism, entitled Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh, Bliss in turn contributed some paintings from her collection.[3]...
...Although Lillie P. Bliss was weakened by cancer the last months of
her life, she participated actively in the formation of the Museum of
Modern Art until shortly before her death. For example, March 2, 1931,
she visited the exhibition Toulouse-Lautrec/Redon to which she had contributed three works by Odilon Redon and her paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec. On March 12, 1931 Lillie P. Bliss died in New York. She found her final resting place on the Woodlawn Cemetery. Two months after her death, the Museum of Modern Art presented in its 12th exhibition Works by 24 Artists from the Collection of Lillie P. Bliss, in memory of the Museum co-founder...."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillie_P._Bliss
1865: Mary White Ovington , an American civil right activist and sociologist, born.
1163: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa wrote an order of protection for abbess Hildegard of Bingen (composer, writer, scientist, author, poet, theologian, religious leader)
1865: Grace Livingston Hill , an American novelist, born
"...Hill's first novel was written to make enough money for a vacation to
Chautauqua in New York while the family was living in Florida. Lack of
funds was a frequent motivator, particularly after the death of her
first husband left her with two small children and no income other than
that from her writing. After the death of Hill's father, her mother came
to live with her. This prompted Hill to write more frequently. During
and after her failed ten-year marriage to second husband Flavius
Josephus Lutz, a church organist 15 years her junior (she did not
divorce but stopped using his surname after he left in May 1914), she
continued to write to support her children and mother.
Although many of her earlier novels were specifically intended to
proselytize, Hill's publishers frequently removed overt references to
religious themes. After her publishers realized the popularity of her
books, references to religious topics were allowed to remain, although
she later modified her writing style to appeal to a more secular
audience. The last Grace Livingston Hill book, "Mary Arden", was
finished by her daughter Ruth Livingston Hill and published in 1947. Hill's books are still in circulation and many of her short stories are available in compilation novels...." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Livingston_Hill
1879: Bernadette Soubirous (Sister Marie-Bernard, Saint Bernadette) died. She had visions of the Virgin Mary.
1889: Frieda Segelke Miller born
"...
FSM, labor administrator and official, was born at La Crosse, Wisconsin, on April 16, 1889. Her parents, James Gordon,
a lawyer, and Erna Segelke, died when FSM was small, leaving Frieda and her younger sister
Elsie to be reared by their grandmother, Augusta (Mrs. Charles) Segelke of La Crosse. FSM
received her BA from Milwaukee-Downer College (later Lawrence University), Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, in 1911; she then spent four years doing graduate work in economics, sociology,
political science, and law at the University of Chicago, but did not complete a degree.
FSM spent the next several years at a variety of jobs, including secretary to the Philadelphia
branch of the Women's Trade Union League (1918-1923) where she met her lifelong friend
Pauline Newman. In 1929 Frances Perkins appointed FSM director of the Division of Women in
Industry and Minimum Wage at the New York State Department of Labor; she was instrumental
in the passage of New York's Minimum Wage Law for Women and Minors in 1933. In 1938
Governor Herbert Lehman appointed FSM Industrial Commissioner of New York, a post she
held until 1943 when she left to become special assistant for labor to John C. Winant, U. S.
Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Late in 1944 FSM became director of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor.
Her major responsibility was the reintegration of women into the economy after their
displacement by veterans returning to their pre-war jobs. She conducted studies to examine labor
laws and vocational improvements in the conditions of women in the labor force. A Roosevelt
appointee, FSM left the Women's Bureau in 1953 at the request of President Eisenhower.
During the 1950s and 1960s FSM focused on international labor issues. As early as 1936 she
had begun representing the U.S. at International Labor Organization conferences; after leaving
the Women's Bureau she went to work full-time for the ILO and conducted several major surveys
in Asia and the Middle East of working conditions and opportunities for women and children.
For a short period (1957-1958) she also represented the International Alliance of Women at the
United Nations.
In the early 1960s FSM became UN representative for the European organization the
International Union for Child welfare, conducting an International Child Welfare Survey (#227)
and participating in various UNICEF projects. She left the UN in 1967 at the age of 78.
During her long professional life FSM was affiliated with a number of other organizations
concerned with women's role in the economy, including the International Confederation of Free
Trade Unions, the International Council of Women, the Women's Trade Union League, and the
International Ladies Garment Worker's Union. She was much in demand both as a speaker and a
writer and maintained an international reputation in her field. Her contributions to women and
labor were recognized in 1940 when she was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters by
Russell Sage College.
FSM never married, but in 1923 while in Germany she adopted a daughter, Elisabeth. For
most of her life she lived in New York, maintaining a summer home in Connecticut and later one
in Pennsylvania; she spent the last four years of her life in a New York City nursing home where
she died on July 21, 1973...." http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00235
1912: Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel
1958: Rosalind Franklin died - helped discover structure of DNA in 1953
"...She was born at Newry, County Down, Ireland, on 18 April 1829,
baptized as Katherine. She entered the Sisters of Mercy convent at
Kinsdale in November 1848. The next year she helped nurse victims of a
cholera epidemic, an experience that was useful later. She received her
habit on 7 July 1849, and with it the name Mary Baptist. She made her
final profession of vows in August 1851, and for the next three years
she taught at the convent school.
...Mary Baptist was appointed superior of the eight sisters chosen
to start the mission in San Francisco, and received the title of Mother.
The pioneer sisters arrived in New York City in October 1854 and
reached San Francisco on 8 December. They considered the date of their
arrival an auspicious sign; it was the same day as the Feast of the
Immaculate Conception, a Catholic holiday honoring Mary, who was the
model for the sisters’ life and work and from whom they all took their first names.
...In 1855 there was
an outbreak of the disease in San Francisco, and Mother Mary Baptist
volunteered her sisters as nurses at the public hospital. The sisters
worked so well that city officials signed a contract with Mother Mary
Baptist whereby the sisters would staff all the public hospitals in San
Francisco. The income from hospital work allowed the Sisters of Mercy to
open their own institutions. In 1855 they started a House of Mercy for
San Francisco’s
unemployed young women, and within a year the sisters were teaching in
Catholic schools. Bishop Alemany wanted the nuns to take the
examinations given to public schoolteachers; if they passed, then the
Catholic schools of San Francisco could have a share of the tax money
spent on education. ...
....She then opened Saint Mary’s
Hospital, the first Catholic hospital on the Pacific coast. She went on
to organize in 1861 in San Francisco the first Magdalene Asylum, an
institution for prostitutes. Like most people at the time, she regarded
prostitution and sex outside marriage as a sin. However, she also
realized that it was more than just a moral issue; young women without
skills had few job opportunities, and their most common employment,
domestic service, put them in situations where men could harass them
with relative impunity. The Magdalene Asylum taught women skills so that
they could find other jobs. In 1872 Mother Mary Baptist founded a home
for the aged and infirm.
....In 1859 Mother Mary
Baptist founded the Sodality of Our Lady. Women who joined the sodality
paid dues and made other charitable contributions to the Sisters of
Mercy, prayed for them and their work, and organized fundraisers to
attract contributions from the larger San Francisco community. Although
the city did not provide regular income for the Sisters of Mercy’s work among the needy, it could provide occasional bonuses. In 1868 Mother Mary Baptist and her sisters entered the city’s
hospitals again, this time to nurse smallpox victims at the pesthouse.
As a token of gratitude, the city gave the Catholic nuns $5,000 in 1870.
Legacy. Almost as soon as she arrived, Mother Mary
Baptist expanded the Sisters of Mercy beyond San Francisco and
established a convent and school at Sacramento. Thanks to the work of
this Catholic nun, California by the 1890s had a system of charitable
care to match that of other states in the Union. Mother Mary Baptist
continued her good works until her death in 1898...." http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2536601481.html
1797: Penina Moise , the first American to publish a Jewish Hymnal, born .
"...Penina Moïse was born on April 23, 1797, to a large and wealthy family
in Charleston, South Carolina. Her father, Abraham, was a successful
Alsatian-born merchant. Her mother, Sarah, was the daughter of a wealthy
family from the island of St. Eustace, where she met and married
Abraham in 1779. They came to Charleston in 1791, fleeing a slave
insurrection. Moïse was the sixth of nine children and the youngest
daughter. Her brothers, Cherie, Aaron, Hyam, and Benjamin, were born in
the Caribbean. Her older sister Rachel and her younger brothers, Jacob,
Abraham, and Isaac, were born in the United States. She left school at
age twelve, after her father’s death. Moïse served as the family nurse,
caring for her mother and brother Isaac, an asthma sufferer. Always
nearsighted, during the Civil War her eyesight deteriorated into
blindness.
Moïse grew up in the presence of a diverse, vital, and well-integrated
Jewish community, devoting herself to Jewish issues. She was encouraged
in her poetry by her brother Jacob and sister Rachel, and her work
appeared in both the Jewish and general press. Her 1833 collection of
poems, Fancy’s Sketch Book,
was the first by a Jewish American woman. Moïse also wrote columns for
newspapers throughout the United States. Her poetry covered a variety of
topics, including current events, politics, local life, Judaism, Jewish
rights, and Jewish ritual reform.
Along with her literary endeavors, Moïse devoted her life to teaching.
In 1845, she became the second superintendent of Congregation Beth
Elohim’s Sunday school. The Civil War forced Moïse to leave Charleston
for Sumter, South Carolina. Returning after the war in much reduced
circumstances, she supported herself by running an academy together with
her widowed sister and her niece. Though self-conscious about her
poverty, she accepted it with humor and grace.Moïse was the first Jewish American woman to contribute to the worship
service, writing 190 hymns for Beth Elohim. The Reform movement’s 1932 Union Hymnal still contained thirteen of her hymns...." http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/moise-penina
1887: Pauline Morton Sabin born "...Pauline Sabin was a wealthy, elegant, socially prominent, and
politically well-connected New Yorker. She was the daughter of Paul
Morton, Secretary of the Navy under President Theodore Roosevelt,[1] and granddaughter of J. Sterling Morton, Secretary of Agriculture under President Grover Cleveland.[2] She married J. Hopkinson Smith, Jr., in 1907. They divorced in 1914.[2] In 1916 she married Charles H. Sabin, president of the Guaranty Trust Company[1] and treasurer of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment (AAPA).
Before 1929, she favored small government and free markets. She
initially supported prohibition, as she later explained: "I felt I
should approve of it because it would help my two sons. The
word-pictures of the agitators carried me away. I thought a world
without liquor would be a beautiful world." Sabin was very active in
Republican politics. She was growing increasingly disenchanted with
prohibition but worked on behalf of Herbert Hoover
in the election of 1928 despite his uncertain stand on the issue. In
his inauguration speech he vowed to enforce anti-liquor legislation.
After the enactment of the Jones Act in May 1929 drastically increased penalties for the violation of prohibition, she resigned from the Republican National Committee and took up the cause of repealing prohibition...." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Sabi
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