1832: Elizabeth Billings Mead born (educator)
1844: Amy Fay born (writer)
1849: Ruth McEnery Stuart born (writer)
1856: Grace Hoadley Dodge born (philanthropist, YWCA organizer)
1865: Katharine Lucinda Sharp born (librarian)
1865: Anne Walter Fearn born (physician)
1867: Frances Theresa Dansmore born (ethnomusicologist)
1881: Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross
1901: Regina Anderson born (librarian, Harlem Renaissance figure)
1909: Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel born (artist)
1935: Jane Addams died (social work pioneer and Hull House founder, peace activist)
1944: Mary Bourke Robinson (president of Ireland, 1990-97)
Quote for Today
Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
-- Jane Addams
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