Harriot Curtis
National golf champion and skiier who, with her sister, opened the East Boston Dispensary, became a dean at Hampton Institute in Virginia and co-founded the Curtis Cup, the best known team trophy for amateur women golfers.
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Sarah Parker Remond
International anti-slavery lecturer and activist for African American and women’s suffrage. Later, she moved to Italy where she became a medical doctor.
Harriet Boyd Hawes
Archeologist Harriet Boyd Hawes became the first woman to lead an archaeological expedition when she discovered the ancient town of Gournia on Crete. In later years she also served as a volunteer nurse during the Greco-Turkish War and World War I.
Sue Bailey Thurman
Sue Bailey Thurman (1903-1996) founded the Museum of African American History in 1963
Susan Paul
In the 1830s, Susan Paul (1809-41) taught at the Smith School on Joy Street, a segregated school for African American children funded jointly by the city and private donations. Paul was also an officer in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society.
Chew Shee Chin
The New England Chinese Women’s Association, founded in 1942 by Chew Shee Chin, supported China relief and the Boston Chinese community during WWII.
Margaret Curtis
National golf champion who, with her sister, opened the East Boston Dispensary, and co-founded the Curtis Cup, the best known team trophy for amateur women golfers.
Adelaide Johnson
American sculptor and suffragist
Dr Helen Cordelia Putnam
Co-founder of the American Child Health Association, organized to promote cleaner schools, better health care for children, and the teaching of health education with the involvement of parents in 1923. While serving as president of the American Academy of Medicine, she organized a conference that resulted in the establishment of the American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality.
Marian MacDowell
Creator of the MacDowell Colony, an institution that has left its mark on the cultural landscape of this country and continues to nurture and support creative artists today.