by Sharon Hall | Mar 4, 2016 | Feisty Females
March is Women’s History Month and what better way to kick it off than to highlight the accomplishments of first female newspaper columnist and highest paid nineteenth century newspaper writer Sara Payson Willis, a.k.a. “Fanny Fern”. Sara was born in Portland, Maine...
by Sharon Hall | Feb 12, 2016 | Feisty Females
If ever a person of the fairer sex could be called a “renaissance woman” it may have been Sarah Jane Ames. When Sarah died in 1926 she was hailed as one of Boone County, Illinois’s “most virile, energetic, and withal most interesting citizens”. She was born Sarah Jane...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 16, 2015 | Feisty Females
This headline introduced some fearless and celebrated women to the readers of the Milwaukee Journal in 1899: “What Man Has Done Women Can Do”. The author had written a recent article “about dependence being an old fashioned virtue and that the clinging ivy type of...
by Sharon Hall | Sep 24, 2015 | Feisty Females
I ran across the name of Emma Daugherty Banister awhile back, along with claims she became the first female sheriff in the United States in August of 1918 after her husband John Banister, elected sheriff of Coleman County, Texas in 1914, died in office. I don’t...
by Sharon Hall | Jun 12, 2015 | Feisty Females
Lillian Heath was born in Burnett Junction, Wisconsin on December 29, 1865, the daughter of William and Calista Hunter Heath. Her father later moved the family steadily west, first to Aplington, Iowa and in 1873 to Laramie, Wyoming. The Transcontinental Railroad was...
by Sharon Hall | May 8, 2015 | Feisty Females
Today’s feisty female, Theodate Pope Riddle, dared to be different. She was born at the stroke of midnight on February 2 (or 3), 1867 in Salem, Ohio to well-to-do parents Alfred Atmore and Ada Lunette (Brooks) Pope. Her birth name was Effie Brooks, but despising it...
