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
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Elizabeth Hauser
Ohio writer and suffrage leader
Mildred Chadsey
American social reformer
Ellen Goldenbogen
Cleveland attorney elected president of the city council of Lakewood (1928-29)
Myra King Merrick
1800s American physician
Gertrude M Handrick
The first female lawyer in the Cleveland Bar Association.
Ardelia Bradley Dixon
Civil rights activist and education advocate
Amy Beeder
Poet Amy Beeder is the author of Burn the Field (2006) and Now Make An Altar (2012).
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.
Laura Mae Corrigan
Socialite who worked for French soldiers and refugees during WWII, organizing the aid group of French women known as La Bien Venue.