In 1870, Harriet married Nelson Davis, who she had met at a South Carolina army base. They were happily married for 18 years until Davis' death. In 1896, Harriet bought property to build a home for sick and needy blacks. However, she was unable to raise enough money to build the house and had to give the land to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. The church completed the home in 1908, and Harriet moved there several years later.
Jane Addams was born from John Huy Addams and Sarah (Weber) Addams on September 6 in the year of 1860 in a town called Cedarville which is located in Illinois. She was the youngest of eight siblings. When Jane was at the young age of two, her mother had died during childbirth. Her father remarried to a woman named Mrs. William Haldeman, she was influential to Jane in a positive aspect, meaning that Jane was fond of her stepmother and took things, such as her reading Shakespeare and used that in the Hull House. In the summer of 1881 her father died without any warning.
Catharine Beecher [Women's Rights and Education Reform] Born into an era where the “cult of domesticity” was the way of the woman, Catharine Beecher from the start tempted those boundaries. Her father, Lyman Beecher, and many siblings such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and pastor Edward Beecher, who organized the first anti-slavery society in Illinois. She was educated at home, before being sent to a private school for young women, which taught limited subjects mostly on fine arts and languages. She took it upon herself to learn other subjects not taught in schools for young women and in 1824 opened a private school with her sister, Mary, known as the Hartford Female Seminary. In addition to training women to be
Which left Ida to take care of her other siblings. Ida took a job as a teacher after she convinced an administrator of a country school she was 18 year old. Eventually, Ida and her sisters moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1882, to live with an aunt. While living in Memphis Ida continued
Ida Tarbell Ida Tarbell was born in 1857, only two years before the birth of the oil industry; key event that would later have a major impact in Ida’s label of Muckraker. At the age of three; her father, Franklin Tarbell, moved his family to a small oil town in Rouseville. There, Ida spent her childhood attending Mrs. Rice’s home school and playing amongst the oil derricks. In the article "Pioneer Women of the Oil Industry," written in 1934, Ida speaks of the problems her mother and many other women had civilizing the oil towns. Around the year 1870 the Tarbells moved to Titusville; where a church and school were already established.
Hayes, America's nineteenth President, began to heal the nation after the ravages of the Civil War. He was well suited to the task, having earned a steadfast reputation for integrity throughout his career as a soldier and a statesman. Upstanding, moral, and honest, Hayes was elected after the most lengthy, bitterly disputed, and corrupt presidential election in history. Hayes's father ran a successful farm and whiskey distillery in Ohio but died ten weeks before Rutherford was born. Raised by his single mother, Rud developed a very close relationship with his brilliant sister, Fanny Hayes, who encouraged him to achieve the prominent career denied to her because she was a woman.
Rosa Parks Although she was known as Rosa Parks, she was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. As a child she lived with her grandparents and developed strong roots by going to church with them. During Rosa's childhood she was influenced by the Jim Crow Laws. Rosa was home-schooled until the age of eleven, and then she attended a segregated public school which was known as the Industrial School For Girls in Montgomery, Alabama. Earning her high school degree in 1933, she then went on to get a secondary education.
She was forces to enroll at La Maternite, a highly regarded midwifery school, in the summer of 1849. While she was attending to a child, about 4 month after enrolling, she inadvertently splashed some pus from the child's eye into her own left eye. She contracted ophthalmia neonatorum. This caused her not to be able to work, study or even read. She eventually had to remove her eye which made it impossible to become a surgeon.
Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt was a very influential woman in her life time. One of the reasons she became famous was because she was the niece of one of the greatest presidents of the United States of America. She was niece to Theodore Roosevelt. Another reason was she married the man Franklin D. Roosevelt who, interestingly enough, was he distant cousin. Her and Franklin Roosevelt had 5 children whom they raised and she became very active in politics along with her husband who had become the president of the United States of America, but she had not become active in politics until after her husbands Polio attack in 1921.
Background -born in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1862 -She was the oldest of eight children. -Her parents died of yellow fever plague in 1880. -Cared for her younger siblings, after the death of her parents. To support her siblings, she became a teacher in Holly Springs. -She was a slave along with her family.