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Elsie Inglis

Elsie Inglis was both the product of and an agent for advances for women in medicine in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Maud Gonne

Irish nationalist, political activist, and subject of most of the love poetry of W. B. Yeats

Mathilda Cecilia Allen

Mathilda Allen helped lead a drawn-out women’s suffrage campaign in Washington, culminating in 1910 with ratification of a right-to-vote amendment in the Washington State Constitution.

Marion E Murdock

Marion E. Murdock served with Florence Buck as co-pastor of Unity Chapel (Unitarian Society of Cleveland) from 1893 to 1899.

Myra King Merrick

1800s American physician

Gertrude M Handrick

The first female lawyer in the Cleveland Bar Association.

Lucia McCurdy McBride

Ohio suffragist

Bernice Secrest Pyke

The first woman elected a delegate to a national political convention and the first woman to serve in a Cleveland mayor’s cabinet

Elizabeth Hauser

Ohio writer and suffrage leader

Selene Corlett

Milliner and dressmaker who organized a training school which prepared 260 women to work in hospitals, factories, at the American Red Cross, and on streetcars during WWI.