Abigail Hopper Gibbons
American philanthropist
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Fanny Kemble
English actress and author
Fanny Bullock Workman
American mountain-climber and explorer of the late 1800s
Emmeline Pankhurst
Lader of the militant wing of the English suffrage movement.
Ellen Elizabeth Ferner
As a member of the Auckland Community Welfare Council when it formed in mid 1924, Ferner was involved in providing important support for the passage of the Child Welfare Act in 1925. This experience, and her wider work on children’s issues, culminated in her appointment as one of the first three associate members of the Children’s Court in 1926.
Albion Fellows Bacon
American reformer who secured for Indiana a tenement-house law
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
American ethnologist, widely known in scientific circles as a worker for Native Americans.
Alva Belmont
American philanthropist and woman suffrage leader
Sara Yorke Stevenson
American archaeologist; first woman to receive a Sc.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin
American suffragist and civil rights activist