Zerelda Sanders Wallace
First Lady of Indiana from 1837 to 1840, and a temperance activist, women’s suffrage leader, and inspirational speaker in the 1870s and 1880s.
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Elizabeth Taylor
As one of the first women justices of the peace in Christchurch she was later made an associate magistrate to the Children’s Court. Within the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women, Elizabeth Taylor promoted issues such as a motherhood endowment, women police, the right of married women to retain their own nationality, and women in politics.
Mabel Wilson
New Zealand domestic worker and community leader
Elsie Dohrmann
New Zealand botanist, teacher and temperance campaigner
Emily Hill
New Zealand teacher, temperance worker and suffragist
Mary McCarthy
New Zealand teacher, temperance worker and political activist
Ariel Serena Hedges Bowen
African-American writer, temperance activist and music professor
Lily Atkinson
New Zealand temperance campaigner, suffragist and feminist
Caroline Still Anderson
Pioneering physician in the Philadelphia African-American community and one of the first Black women to become a physician in the United States.
Emma Brignell Ostler
New Zealand teacher, prohibitionist, landowner, businesswoman