Elise Blankenbach
In 1872 the widowed Elise von Koerber, a resourceful woman with children to support, found employment as an immigration agent with the Canadian government.
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Maria Webb
1800s Irish philanthropist and author
Ellen Woodlock
1800s Irish philanthropist and social worker
Emma Duffin
20th century Irish nurse, diarist and welfare worker
Eva Kelly
1800s Irish poet and nationalist
Fanny Parnell
1800s Irish nationalist and poet
Martha McTier
1700s and 1800s Irish activist and writer
Marie Moore
20th century Irish republican activist
Moina Belle Michael
American educator best known for her work as a World War I (1917-18) remembrance advocate
Maude Comstock Waitt
The first woman from Cuyahoga County to be elected to the Ohio Senate in 1922, two years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.