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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.

Caroline M Severance

1800s feminist activist in Cleveland, known as America’s first clubwoman