1815: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps born (writer)
1818: Lucy Stone born (reformer, publisher)
1826: Martha Nash Lamb born (writer, editor, historian; active in 1863 Chicago Sanitary Fair)
1840: Kate Chase Sprague born (hostess)
1849: Leonora Marie Kearney Barry born (reformer)
1860 Annie Oakley born (markswoman, entertainer)
1870: Florence Nightingale Levy born (editor, publisher, manager)
1890: Pauline Lord born (actress)
1913: Florence Nightingale died (nurse, statistician)
1933: Joycelyn Elders born (physician, public official)
1948: Kathleen Battle born (opera singer)
Quote for Today
We want rights. The flour-merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the difference. -- Lucy Stone
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