“Do good deeds in a funny way. The world needs to laugh or at least smile more than it does.” 962: Rose Cecil O’Neill The First Published Female Cartoonist in the United States Born: 25 June 1874, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States of America Died: 6 April 1944, Springfield, Missouri, United States of America Rose created…
“I need you and life is not long enough to always wait.” 961: Rose Cleveland Acting First Lady of the United States During Her Brother Grover Cleveland’s First Administration Born: 13 June 1846, Buffalo, New York, United States of America Died: 11 November 1918, Bagni di Lucca, Italy Rose was also present for the dedication…
960: Katharine Berry Richardson Created a Children’s Hospital in Kansas City Born: c.1858, Kentucky, United States of America Died: 3 June 1933, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America Katharine was sent to school by her older sister Alice. Once Katharine had her degrees, she worked so Alice could go to school. Katharine held degrees…
959: Alice Berry Graham Created a Children’s Hospital in Kansas City (Missouri) Born: c.1850, Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States of America Died: 3 May 1913, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America Alice used her salary as a schoolteacher to send her younger sister Katharine to medical school. Once Katharine had earned her medical degree,…
“Siberia is on the threshold of its blackest period…Twice a victim, first to monarchy and then to anarchy—its people will die by the thousands. They are freezing to death now.” 958: Peggy Hull The First Female War Correspondent Accredited by the United States War Department Born: 30 September 1889, near Bennington, Kansas, United States of…
“…a woman with a plan is persistent.” -Waterlily (1948) 957: Ella Cara Deloria Yankton Sioux Linguist, Ethnographer and Anthropologist Born: c.1888*, Yankton Sioux Reservation, Dakota Territory, United States of America (Present-day Yankton Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, United States of America) Died: 12 February 1971, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States of America Original Name: Anpetu Washte-win…
“Often I am the only woman in a crowd of two hundred or more horse dealers…Sometimes people come out to the stockyards to see in me a new curiosity, and there are a few who try to flirt or make sport of me. I just walk up to a group of such men and, looking…
955: Louise Siuwheem Polotkin Apostle to Her People, The Coeur d’Alene Born: c.1800, Present-day Kootenai County, Idaho, United States of America Died: 1853, Present-day Kootenai County, Idaho, United States of America Original Name: Siuwheem (Meaning Tranquil Waters) Louise helped convert her people to Christianity after Catholic Missionaries arrived on her tribal lands in 1842. Missionaries…
954: Clara Brown Former Slave who Helped Settle Colorado Born: c.1800, Virginia, United States of America Died: 23 October 1885, Denver, Colorado, United States of America Also Known As: Aunt Clara Clara was freed from bondage in 1859, but her husband and children who had been separated from her earlier on were not. When Clara…
953: Donaldina Cameron The Angry Angel of Chinatown Born: 26 July 1869, Otago Land District, New Zealand Died: 4 January 1968, Palo Alto, California, United States of America Other Nicknames Included: Lo Mo, Fahn Quait (White Devil) or Beloved Mother Donaldina was called Fahn Quait by those who opposed her work, and Beloved Mother or…