1194: Claire of Assisi born
1821: Mary Baker Eddy born (religious founder, Christian Science)
1828: Abby Howland Woolsey (Civil War hospital worker - forerunner of Sanitary Commission)
1836: Marietta Holley born (wrote under name "Josiah Allen's Wife")
1841: Mary LaForge born (businesswoman)
1849: Clara Shortridge Foltz born (lawyer, reformer)
1851: Mildred Lewis Rutherford born (educator, anti-suffrage activist, historian of the Confederacy)
1862: Ida B. Wells-Barnett born (journalist, reformer)
1863: Fannie Blumenfeld/Bloomfield Zeisler born (pianist)
1882: Mary Todd Lincoln died in Springfield, Illinois (First Lady, widow of Abraham Lincoln)
1899: Eunice Hunton Carter born (lawyer, public official)
1908: Frances Rappaport Horwich born (educator: Miss Francis of Ding-Dong School)
Quote for Today
My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
-- Mary Todd Lincoln
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