Elizabeth Kearney Blood
Elizabeth Kearney Blood (1899-1969) resisted eviction during Boston’s West End demolition in 1958.
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Arabella Jeffereyes
1700s Irish landowner and social radical
Sinéad Derrig
Irish civil servant
Catherine Boyle
1600s countess of Cork
Rosie Johnson
1900s Irish street trader
Tsuneno
Tsuneno survived famine and three marriages to reinvent herself in 1800s Edo
Leonarda Corlito
20th century Italian immigrant who settled in Boston
Frances LoRusso
20th century Italian immigrant who settled in Boston
Annie White
Annie White made her daring escape from slavery to freedom aboard the Confederate steamer, The Planter in the early hours of May 13, 1862.
Anna Pike Rosler
In her youth, Anna ventured to the San Juan Islands every summer to fish and hunt with her Alaskan Native family. During one of these visits, she met her future husband, Christopher Rosler, a German immigrant who was a soldier in the U.S. Army stationed at American Camp. They married in 1861 when Anna was fifteen years old. Together, they homesteaded and raised nine children on 160 acres, some of which is now part of San Juan Island National Historical Park.