LE ROY PENNYSAVER & NEWS - MARCH 19, 2017 Women in History

As I put together the text for in the United States, 86 % are concentrating on women and in.” Lincoln called her “the little the new exhibit “Remember the enslaved. children - she is barred from lady who started the great war.” Ladies” I have put together a 1821 – Emma Willard opens the hospitals. She is barred from 1852 – Antoinette Brown timeline of women’s history on Troy Female Seminary. attending lectures at Harvard Blackwell becomes the first for- which I can place the stories of 1824 - Anna Claypoole Peale Medical School because of her mally appointed woman minis- the women of LeRoy. For ex- and Sarah Miriam Peale are gender. ter in the United States. ample I know that when Char- both elected to the Pennsylvania 1837 – Sarah Hale turns to 1855 - Physician Emeline Hor- lotte LeRoy’s father died, his Academy of the Fine Arts. writing as a way to support her ton Cleveland practices gyne- estate - -which was sizable - - 1825 - Rebeca Webb Lukens five children after the death of cology and becomes noted as passed on to Charlotte and her assumes the helm of the Penn- her husband. She becomes the the first woman to perform ma- sister. But the big question, is sylvania iron mill formerly run editor of the new monthly wom- jor surgery. whether Charlotte was able to by her husband and father. She en’s magazine Godey’s Lady’s 1860 – Business woman Ellen claim her inheritance, or did it is the first women in the iron Book. Curtis Demorest becomes the pass to her husband Jacob, be- business. 1838 – Angelina Grimki, a first person to create and distrib- cause married women could not 1827 – To please the U.S. Gov- Quaker becomes the first wom- ute accurate patterns for home own property, or earn or inherit ernment the Cherokee nation an to address a legislative body dressmaking. money in their own right until adopts a new constitution that to ask the Massachusetts legis- New York State passed the Mar- eliminates women’s power in lature to end the slave trade. ried Women’s Property Act of decision making by denying 1840 – Lucretia Mott meets 1848. So I have to go back and them the right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Lon- find out when her father died don at the World Anti Slavery and where he died. If he died Convention where women are in New York after 1848, then denied seats. Charlotte should have become 1840 – Ernestine Rose begins a wealthy lady. I wonder now work on legislation granting about Emily Ingham. She mar- married women property rights. ried Phineas Staunton in 1847, so did he become the owner of Ingham University? And be- cause Emily’s sister Marietta never married, was she Phineas’ business partner? So here are Mary Edwards Walker some interesting points of wom- en’s history: 1860 - Mary Edwards Walk- 1796 – Amelia Simmons pub- er serves in the medical corps lishes the first American cook- Lydia Maria Child during the Civil War and re- book. ceives the Congressional Medal 1797 – Elizabeth Ann Bayley 1833 – Lydia Maria Child, of Honor. Seton is part of a group that prominent abolitionist, and au- founds the Society for the Relief thor of the American Frugal of Poor Widows. She founds the Housewife, published her first Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph anti-slavery book ”An Appeal Dorthea Dix in 1809 and is considered the in Favor of the Class of Amer- founder of the parochial school icans Called Africans.” 1843 - Dorthea Dix exposes the system in the United States. 1833 – Oberlin college admits it harsh treatment of mentally ill 1805 – Sacagawea serves as first class of 44 students – 15 are and reports to the Massachu- guide and interpreter for the women however they are not al- setts legislature. Lewis and Clark expedition lowed to study the same curric- 1848 – The first Women’s Con- through the unchartered West. ulum as men until 1837. vention is held in Seneca Falls The journey takes two years 1833 – Maria Martin Bachman 1848 - Physician Elizabeth 1813 – Mary Young Pickersgill paints the plants, flowers, in- Blackwell is the first US wom- makes the flag that serves as sects and other details for John an to receive a MD from Gene- the inspiration for Francis Scott James Audubon’s Birds of va College. Key’s “The Star Spangled Ban- America. 1850 - Women are 43 % of the Julia Ward Howe ner.” 1834 – Textile workers in paid workforce. 1816 – Factory workers in the Lowell Massachusetts, mostly 1850 - Harriet Tubman leads 1862 – Julia Ward Howe noted United States number 100,000. young women – strike to protest slaves to freedom. poet publishes the poem “The Two thirds of them are women that their wages had been cut by 1852 - Emily Dickenson pub- Battle Hymn of the Republic" and children. They are paid sig- 15%. lishes her first poem. which is set to music. nificantly less than men. 1835 – Harriot Kezia Hunt 1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe 1820 – of 874,000 black women opens her own medical practice, publishes “Uncle Tom’s Cab-