Mary Leadbeater
Irish author, poet, and memoirist
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Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
South African politician and activist
Meribah Farmer
Quaker minister and philanthropist who helped found Cleveland’s original evangelical Quakers organization and the First Friends Church.
Born near Philadelphia, PA to Benjamin and Hannah (Webster) Butler, Meribah and her family moved to Salem, OH, in 1811. She married James Farmer on l Oct. l834, and they settled in Salineville, OH. In 1856, the Farmers became the first members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) to settle in Cleveland.
Meribah was accepted early in life as a Quaker minister. Always wearing her bonnet and unostentatious attire, Meribah adhered strictly to the dress and manners of the Quakers, and, in meetings for worship, ministered in the spirit with great strength and sweetness.
The Cleveland Friends meeting first began in 1871 in the Farmer’s home located at the corner of Superior Avenue and East 6th Street (former HOLLENDEN HOTEL site). It was here the idea for a First Friends Church was born. In 1874 a modest church was built on Cedar Avenue. Meribah was one of four resident ministers, and James Farmer was an Elder.
Meribah devoted herself to various charities, including the Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, The Aid Society of the Civil War, The Homeopathic Hospital, The Retreat (a home for the mentally disabled), and always provided aid for the Freedmen and the Indians through the Board of the Society of Friends.
The Farmers had seven children, Elihu, Beulah, Ellen, Lydia, Laura, Elizabeth and James. Meribah is buried in LAKE VIEW CEMETERY.
Myrtle Allen
Irish chef, food writer and hotelier
Graceanna Lewis
American ornithologist, illustrator, and activist in the anti-slavery, temperance, and women’s suffrage movements.
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon was a suffrage activist who worked for change at every level: as a grassroots organizer, a state politics watchdog, and a researcher at a federal agency.
Signe Wilkinson
As her cartoons for Ms. Magazine in the 1980s demonstrate, Signe Wilkinson addressed women’s issues early in her career.
Mary Ann M’Clintock
American Quaker suffragist
Mary Campbell
Mary Campbell’s life was devoted to education in its widest sense. She sought to be informed, to empathise with people and to seek fair and equitable solutions to social and personal problems. Her home was a haven for those in need of hospitality.
Sarah Page
New Zealand teacher, feminist, prohibitionist, socialist and social reformer