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Julia Eleanor Moody was born in Canton, New York in 1869 to Harnel and Adelia (Hewett) Moody. She attended Mount Holyoke College, earning a B.S. in 1894 and then an M.A. in 1909 and writing her master’s thesis on the anatomy and embryology of…

Annette E. Philbrick was born in Iowa City in 1875 to Philetus Harvey Philbrick and Malah P. (Brackett) Philbrick. She attended the Iowa City public schools until the family moved to Nebraska, and she finished her early education in the city of…

Margaret Judson was born in Orange, New Jersey in 1880 to Edward and Antoinette (Barstow) Judson. Her father was the pastor of Memorial Baptist Church in New York City and a professor at Colgate Theological Seminary. Margaret attended Vassar College,…

June Richardson Donnelly was born in College Hill, Ohio, to John Marshall Donnelly and Anne (Moore) Donnelly. She attended the Cincinnati Public Schools, graduating from Hughes High School. She went on to earn a B.S. in biology in 1895 from the…

Mabel Wheeler Daniels was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts around 1878 to George F. Daniels, a successful shoe manufacturer, and Maria (Wheeler) Daniels. The entire Daniels family was musically inclined; both of Mabel’s grandfathers were church…

Caroline Jewell Cook was born in Evansville, Indiana in 1863 to Henry and Caroline (Judson) Cook. She earned an A.B. from Wellesley College in 1884 and later attended the Boston University School of Law, graduating in 1899. The following year, she…

Sara Cone Bryant, pictured here in a 1906 Boston Globe article, was born in Melrose, Massachusetts in 1873 to Dexter and Dorcas Anne (Hancock) Bryant. She received her A.B. in 1895 from Boston University, where she joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma…

Frances Gertrude Wick was born in 1875 in Butler, Pennsylvania to Sarah Ann (Mechling) Wick and Alfred Wick, an innkeeper and oil producer. She attended Wilson College, graduating with an A.B. in 1897, and then returned to Butler to teach high school…

Maida Herman was born in Boston in 1891 to Hannah (Adler) Herman and Joseph Herman, a shoe manufacturer. She graduated from Boston Girls’ Latin School in 1908, and then received a B.A. from Smith College in 1912. She pursued further undergraduate…

Zilpha Drew Smith was born in Pembroke, Massachusetts in 1852 to Silvanus Smith, a shipbuilder, and Judith Winsor (McLauthlin) Smith, an early suffragist. The family moved to East Boston when Smith and her five siblings were young, and she attended…