Florence Peshine Eagleton
New Jersey leader in the woman suffrage movement and an advocate for women’s higher education.
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Teresa Teng
“The Eternal Queen of Asian Pop”
Anne Cox Chambers
Anne Cox Chambers was a media mogul, philanthropist, and former U.S. ambassador.
Elena Diaz-Verson Amos
Philanthropist Elena Diaz-Verson Amos, a Cuban immigrant, was active in educational, philanthropic, and political causes and dedicated to increasing intercultural understanding in Georgia.
Rebecca Buffum Spring
New Jersey’s Rebecca Buffum Spring (1811-1911) founded the middle-class utopian communities of The North American Phalanx at Red Bank as well as the Raritan Bay Union at Perth Amboy.
Carrie Steele Logan
Carrie Steele Logan founded the Carrie Steele Orphan Home in Atlanta, recognized as the oldest predominantly Black orphanage in Georgia and possibly the oldest organization of its type in the country.
Anna Maria O’Brien
1800s Irish philanthropist
Louisa Maculloch
Louisa Maculloch (1785-1863) was the first director of the Morristown Female Charitable Society which was founded in 1830 in New Jersey to serve the poor.
Gillian Laura Condie Falconer
Passionate about art and design, she was skilled at screen printing, some of her designs taken by Liberty and the National Trust.
Abby Hopper Gibbons
1800s American philanthropist