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List Of Historical Pennsylvania Women
This is a list of prominent historical Pennsylvania women: *Mary Ambler (1805–1868) *Marian Anderson (1897–1993)/ *Nellie Bly (1864–1922) * Pearl S. Buck * Rachel Carson (1907–1964) *Margaret Corbin (1754–1800) *Henrietta Crosman * Isabel Darlington (1865–1950) *Lydia Darragh (1728–1789) *Saint Katherine Drexel *Eliza Clayland Tomlinson Foster *Hannah Freeman * Martha Glaser * Elsie Hillman *Emma Hunter *Rebecca Lukens (1794–1854) *Sophie Masloff *Sybilla Masters (1676–1720) *Lucy Kennedy Miller (1880-1962) *Evelyn Foster Morneweck * Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) *Mary Engle Pennington (1872–1952) *Ann Preston (1813–1872) *Jennie Bradley Roessing * Betsy Ross * Marion Margery Scranton (1884–1960) *Florence Seibert (1897–1991) *Frances Slocum (1773–1847) *Amanda Berry Smith (1837–1915) *Anna Bustill Smith (1862-1945) *Eliza Kennedy Smith (1889-1964)Pitz, Marylynne.A roll call of Western Pa. suffrage trailblazers" Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: ''Pittsburgh Post- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ambler
Mary Johnson Ambler (March 24, 1805 – August 18, 1868) was an American humanitarian and Fulling, fuller who helped organize the rescue of survivors of the Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Pennsylvania. The borough of Ambler, Pennsylvania, Ambler was named in her honor. Biography Ambler was born to Abigail and Benjamin Johnson of Richland Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Richland Township in 1805. Little is known of her early years. She married Andrew Ambler, a Weaving, weaver and Fulling, fuller, on May 14, 1829. Three years later, the Amblers purchased the Fulling Mill and eighty-three acres in the village of Ambler, Pennsylvania, Wissahickon. They repaired the run-down, century-old mill and began manufacturing woolen blankets and clothing. They had seven sons and one daughter and ran the mill until Andrew died on March 7, 1850. The widowed Mary and her married son, Lewis, continued to run the mill until she died on August 18, 1868 and was interred at the Gwynedd Friends Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybilla Masters
Sybilla Righton Masters (c. 1676 – 23 August 1720)Blashfield JF Women Inventors, Volume 4 Capstone, 1996/ref> was an American inventor. Masters was the first person residing in Thirteen Colonies, the American colonies to be given an English patent, and possibly the first known female Caucasian machinery inventor in America. Masters was given a patent for a corn mill in 1715 in her husband's name, as women were not allowed to have their own patents.Samuel C. Inventors and Inventions in Colonial America. The Rosen Publishing Group, 200/ref> She also patented a process for making hats. Early life Not much is known of Masters' early life. It is possible that she was born in Bermuda as her father had emigrated from there in 1687. It is believed that she was born around 1676, and in 1687 she and her six sisters emigrated from Bermuda to Burlington Township, New Jersey (along the Delaware River) with her Quakers, Quaker parents Sarah and William Righton. Sybilla Righton first showed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliza Kennedy Smith
Eliza Kennedy Smith (December 11, 1889 – October 23, 1964), also known as Mrs. R. Templeton Smith, was a 20th-century American suffragist, civic activist, and government reformer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Upon her death in 1964, ''The Pittsburgh Press'' described her as "a relentless, tenacious watchdog of the City's purse strings" who "probably attended more budget sessions over the years than anyone else in Pittsburgh either in or out of government". Partnering with her sister, Lucy Kennedy Miller (1880–1962), and Jennie Bradley Roessing, Mary E. Bakewell, Hannah J. Patterson, and Mary Flinn Lawrence during the early 1900s, she helped to found the Allegheny County Equal Rights Association (later renamed as the Equal Franchise Federation of Western Pennsylvania and then the Allegheny County League of Women Voters). Named president of the Allegheny County League of Women Voters, she held that position from the early 1920s until the time of her death in 1964. In additio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Bustill Smith
Anna Bustill Smith (1862 – August 1945) was a cousin of Paul Robeson and member of Philadelphia's prominent Bustill family. A suffragist, who was the first known African-American genealogist in the United States, she also achieved recognition as an African-American author during the 20th century. Among her most important works are biographical sketches about members of the Bustill family, as well as her ''Reminiscences of Colored People of Princeton, N.J., 1800–1900'', which was a study of Princeton's Black community that was published in 1913. Formative years Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1862 as Anna Amelia Bustill, Anna Bustill Smith was a great-granddaughter of Cyrus Bustill (1732–1806), a formerly enslaved man who purchased his freedom and later became a founding member of Philadelphia's Free African Society, and was the daughter of Sarah Bustill (1828–1891) and her husband, Joseph Cassey Bustill (1822–1895), who had become the youngest member of the Unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Berry Smith
Amanda Berry Smith (January 23, 1837 – February 24, 1915) was a Methodist preacher and former slave who funded The Amanda Smith Orphanage and Industrial Home for Abandoned and Destitute Colored Children outside Chicago. She was a leader in the Wesleyan-Holiness movement, preaching the doctrine of entire sanctification throughout Methodist camp meetings across the world. She was referred to as "God's image carved in ebony". International preacher The Reverend Dr. A. Louise Bonaparte is her great great granddaughter. Early life Smith was born to slaves in Long Green, Maryland, a small town in Baltimore County. Her father was Samuel Berry and her mother was Mariam Matthews. She was the oldest of thirteen siblings. Her father was a well-trusted man, and his master's widow trusted him enough to place him in charge of her farm. After his duties for the day were done, Mr. Berry was allowed to go out and earn extra money for himself and his family. Many nights he would go withou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Slocum
Frances Slocum (March 4, 1773 – March 9, 1847) (Ma-con-na-quah, "Young Bear" or "Little Bear") was an adopted member of the Miami people. Slocum was born into a Quaker family that migrated from Warwick, Rhode Island, in 1777 to the Wyoming Valley in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. On November 2, 1778, when Slocum was five years old, she was captured by three Delaware warriors at the Slocum family farm in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Slocum was raised among the Delaware in what is now Ohio and Indiana. With her marriage to Shepoconah (Deaf Man), who later became a Miami chief, Slocum joined the Miami and took the name Maconaquah. She settled with her Miami family at Deaf Man's village along the Mississinewa River near Peru, Indiana. In 1835 Slocum revealed to a visitor that she was a white woman who had been captured as a child, and two years later, in September 1837, three of Slocum's siblings came to see her. They confirmed that she was their sister, but Slocum chose to stay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Seibert
Florence Barbara Seibert (October 6, 1897 – August 23, 1991) was an American biochemist. She is best known for identifying the active agent in the antigen tuberculin as a protein, and subsequently for isolating a pure form of tuberculin, purified protein derivative (PPD), enabling the development and use of a reliable TB test. Seibert has been inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame and the National Women's Hall of Fame. Early life and education Seibert was born on October 6, 1897, in Easton, Pennsylvania, to George Peter Seibert and Barbara (Memmert) Seibert. At age three, Florence contracted polio. She had to wear leg braces and walked with a limp throughout her life. As a teenager, Seibert is reported to have read biographies of famous scientists which inspired her interest in science. Seibert did her undergraduate work at Goucher College in Baltimore, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1918. She and one of her chemistry teachers, Jessie E. Minor, did war-time work at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Margery Scranton
Marion Margery Warren Scranton (April 12, 1884 – June 23, 1960) was a 20th century women’s suffrage activist and leading member of the Republican Party in the United States. Known as “the Duchess and the Grand Old Dame of the Grand Old Party,” she was described in ''Life'' magazine as “the woman Pennsylvania politicians still remember as ‘Margery,’ and … the only woman who (in Tom Dewey’s much-quoted phrase) could wear two orchids through a coal mine and get away with it.” The first female vice-chair of the Lackawanna County Lackawanna County (; unm, Lèkaohane) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in Northeastern Pennsylvania and had a population of 215,896 as of the 2020 census. Its county seat and largest city is Scranton. The county ... Republican Committee, Margery Scranton was also a member of the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee from 1922 to 1934, and served as vice-chair of the Pennsylvania Republican Party fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betsy Ross
Elizabeth Griscom Ross (née Griscom;Addie Guthrie Weaver, ''"The Story of Our Flag..."'', 2nd Edition, A. G. Weaver, publ., 1898, p. 73 January 1, 1752 – January 30, 1836), also known by her second and third married names, Ashburn and Claypoole, was an American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives in 1870 with making the first officialPreceded unofficially by the Grand Union Flag U.S. flag, accordingly known as the Betsy Ross flag. Though most historians dismiss the story, Ross family tradition holds that General George Washington, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and two members of a congressional committee— Robert Morris and George Ross—visited Mrs. Ross in 1776. Mrs. Ross convinced George Washington to change the shape of the stars in a sketch of a flag he showed her from six-pointed to five-pointed by demonstrating that it was easier and speedier to cut the latter. However, there is no archival evidence or other recorded verbal tradition to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennie Bradley Roessing
Jennie Bradley Roessing (May 11, 1881 – May 15, 1963) was a leader in Pennsylvania's women's suffrage movement during the early 1900s. She was an active participant in the women's suffrage movement and various Pittsburgh-area organizations. Early life Roessing was born on May 11, 1881, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to John Bradley and Anna Marie (Friedrich) Bradley. John was a successful tailor. Jennie married and later divorced Frank M. Roessing, a civil engineer. Jennie Bradley Roessing died in Pittsburgh on May 15, 1963. Career In 1914, Roessing began her campaign for the rights of women. She worked with Hannah Patterson, Mary Flinn, Lucy Kennedy, and Mary Bakewell. Together they formed the Allegheny County Equal Rights Association (ACERA). ACERA changed its title in 1910 to The Equal Rights Franchise Federation of Western Pennsylvania. Roessing was vice-president. In 1912, she was also involved at the state level as president of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association (PW ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Preston
Ann Preston (December 1, 1813April 18, 1872) was an American physician, activist, and educator. Early life Ann Preston was the first woman dean of a medical school, the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP), which was the first medical school in the world to admit women exclusively. At a time when the medical profession was nearly all-male and considered unacceptably coarse for women to enter, Ann Preston campaigned for her female students to be admitted to clinical lectures at the Blockley Philadelphia Hospital, and the Pennsylvania Hospital. Despite the open hostility of male medical students, and sometimes of male faculty, Preston determinedly negotiated the best educational opportunities for the students of WMCP. Preston was born in 1813 in West Grove, Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia, to prosperous farmer and prominent Quaker Amos Preston and his wife Margaret Smith Preston. One of eight siblings, she was educated in a local Quaker school and later briefly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Engle Pennington
Mary Engle Pennington (October 8, 1872 – December 27, 1952) was an American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer. Early life and education Mary Engle Pennington was born in Nashville, Tennessee; her parents were Henry and Sarah Malony Pennington. Shortly after her birth, her parents moved to Philadelphia to be closer to her mother's Quaker relatives. Her younger sister, Helen, was born in 1878. Mary Pennington demonstrated an early interest in chemistry. She entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1890 and completed the requirements for a B.S. degree in chemistry with minors in botany and zoology in 1892. However, since the University of Pennsylvania did not grant degrees to women at this time, she was given a certificate of proficiency instead of a degree. Pennington received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1895. Her thesis was entitled "Derivatives of Columbium and Tantalum." From 1895–96 she was a university fellow in botany at her Alma Mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
