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.
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Belle Sherwin
American reform activist and a suffragist who led the national League of Women Voters during 1924-1934.
Dr Alice Bellvadore Sams Turner
1800s American physician
Almira L Fales
Philanthropist who tended the sick and wounded during the US Civil War
Dr Alice M Steeves
Turn of the century American dentist
Elizabeth Fanning
Australian dentist and dental surgeon
Columba Rivera
A teacher, poet, and playwright, she was also a professor at the National School of Medicine and the National School of Nursing. A polyglot, she founded the magazine La Mujer Mexicana and contributed to El Mundo Ilustrado.
Martine Rothblatt
Her long list of accomplishments includes creating and commercializing satellite radio, founding a biotechnology company that seeks to provide an unlimited supply of transplantable organs, setting world records for electric flight and delving deep into the future of artificial intelligence with her work on digital immortality.
Colonel Kathy Ann C Baptiste-Jones
Col. Kathy Ann C. Baptiste-Jones helped start the 440th Civil Affairs Battalion at Fort Carson, Colorado.
Mary Locke
Irish divorcee, WWI hospital worker and company director