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Ohio Bicentennial Figures |
 Women in History Program: Ohio First Ladies Tea |
Women in History is a non-profit corporation dedicated to the education of all people through the dramatic re-creation of lives of notable women in U.S. history. |
| Sarah Bolton 1841-1916 | Noted Cleveland author of biographies, poetry and a temperance novel. |
| Eliza Bryant 1827-1907 | African-American founder of the The Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People. |
| Rebecca Carter 1766-1827 | Pioneer woman of Cleveland. |
| Cassie L. Chadwick 1857-1907 | Most infamous Cleveland financial con-artist. |
| Dorothy Dandridge 1923-1965 | Actress, singer and dancer. Star of Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess. |
| Mary Fields (1832?-1914) | African-American entrepreneur, stagecoach driver, pioneer. |
| Dorothy Fuldheim 1893-1989 | Jewish-American news journalist and television broadcaster; developed format for television news programming. |
| Zelma Watson George 1903-1994 | African-American delegate to the U.N., opera singer, speaker and educator. |
| Adella Prentiss Hughes 1869-1950 | Founder of the Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Music Settlement House. |
| Jane Edna Hunter 1882-1971 | African-American social worker, attorney, founder of Phyllis Wheatley Association of Cleveland. |
| Rebecca Jackson ?? | African-American eldress of the Shaker sect in Cleveland. |
| Edmonia Lewis ( 1843-?) | First successful African-American sculptor. |
| Flora Stone Mather 1852-1910 | Cleveland philanthropist, founder of Flora Stone Mather college at Western Reserve University for women. Sponsored Goodrich House for urban children. |
| Annie Oakley 1860-1926 | World famous markswoman from Ohio. |
| Mrs. George Hannah? Peake 1755-18?? | First African-American settler of Cleveland. |
| Rebecca Rouse 1799-1887 | Cleveland humanitarian, temperance advocate, abolitionist, founder of Beech Brook. |
| Rose Bianco Salvatore 1900-1993 | Italian immigrant during the "Great Wave" coming to America. |
| Margaret Skapes 1892-1968 | Immigrant from Greece, suffragette. |
| Belle Sherwin 1868-1955 | Cleveland suffragist, President of League of Women Voters, social reformer. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896 | Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
| Victoria Woodhull 1838-1927 | First woman to run for President, center of a scandal that rocked the nation. |
| FIRST LADIES | |
| Lucretia Rudolph Garfield 1832-1918 | Wife of James Garfield, 20th President of the United States was First Lady for six months when her husband was assassinated. "Crete" returned home to Lawnfield in Mentor where her life continued in a non-traditional way. |
| Julia Boggs Dent Grant 1826-1902 | Wife of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States, was a determined woman who despite family objections married the man she loved. Outspoken, she also created her own plans for ending the Civil War and holding a secret Presidential Inauguration. |
| Florence Harding 1860-1924 | Wife of Warren Harding, 29th President of the United States, the first presidential wife able to vote for her husband. Scandal plagued this First Lady throughout her life. |
| Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison 1832-1892 | Wife of Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States, was the first president-general of the newly formed DAR. An accomplished watercolorist, she designed and painted the Harrison state china and organized the White House china collection. |
| Lucy Ware Webb Hayes 1831-1889 | Wife of Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States, was the first presidential wife to have a college degree. She originated the annual Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn. |
| Ida Saxton McKinley 1847-1907 | Wife of William McKinley, 25th President of the United States, developed a unique way of coping with her epileptic seizures during her public appearances as First Lady. |
| Helen Herron Taft 1861-1943 | Wife of William H. Taft, 27th President of the United States, always longed to live in the White House. Known for planting Washington D.C.’s legendary cherry trees. |
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