Sorosis was the first professional women's club in the United States. It was established in March 1868 in New York City by Jane Cunningham Croly.
Eliza Archard Conner was an American writer, journalist, novelist, lecturer, teacher, and feminist of the long nineteenth century. Hailing from Ohio, Conner began writing for newspapers at the age of 13. She served in various roles for the Saturday Evening Post, of Philadelphia, the Commercial of Cincinnati, and the New York World of New York City. She also worked towards the emancipation and advancement of women.
Association for the Advancement of Women (A.A.W.) was an American women's organization founded in 1873.
Rhoda Belle Colver was the Club Editor of The Spokesman-Review in Spokane.
Rebecca A. Morse was an American club leader.
Jeanne de la Montagnie Lozier was an American physician and educator from New York City. She worked as an instructor of languages and literature in Hillsdale College from the age of nineteen, and after earning her medical degree from New York Medical College, became a professor of physiology. She was a delegate to the International Homoeopathic Congress in Paris in 1889 and was president of Sorosis Club from 1891 to 1894.
Laura M. Johns was an American suffragist and journalist. She served as president of the Kansas State Suffrage Association six times, and her great work was the arrangement of thirty conventions beginning in Kansas City in February, 1892. She also served as president of the Kansas Republican Woman's Association, superintendent of the Kansas Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and field organizer of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Johns died in 1935.
Fanny Purdy Palmer was an American author, poet, journalist, lecturer, social activist, and clubwoman. She began club work in 1876 and was one of the originators of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. She served as president of the Rhode Island Woman's Club, was a member of the school committee of the city of Providence, Rhode Island, and was connected with various philanthropic and social movements, including women's suffrage. A diligent reader of some of the best scientific and metaphysical works, for many years, she was a writer of stories which appeared in various weekly and monthly publications, stories which have dealt with the problems of life.
Anna Campbell Palmer was an American author and editor. Disliking publicity, she wrote constantly under a great number of nom de plumes, adopting a new one when she began to be identified. Sometimes she had intervals of complete silence, distrustful of her powers and displeased with her efforts. After her marriage, she was known as "Mrs. George Archibald". In 1901, she began to use her full married name, Mrs. George Archibald Palmer, on all her books and articles in periodicals. She wrote a number of poems which appeared in the principal magazines of her day. She was also a successful author of fiction and biography. Palmer served as editor of Young Men's Journal, a YMCA magazine, from 1889 until 1898, at the time being the only woman editor of a young men's journal in the world.
Sophia Curtiss Hoffman was an American philanthropist, known as the Helen Gould of the early 1870s. She was the founder of the benevolent institution known as the Chapin Home for the Aged, in New York City. She was also numbered among the reformers, as one of the first treasurers of the Association for the Advancement of Women, and a vice-president of the Woman's Centenary Association of the Universalist Church.
Harriet L. Cramer was an American journalist. Starting off as a typesetter and proofreader at The Evening Wisconsin, a daily newspaper published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she went on to become its editor and publisher. She was also the president of The Evening Wisconsin Company, which, in addition to publishing one of the "Golden Dozen" of American newspapers, also conducted an extensive job printing department. Cramer was a benefactor of Marquette University; Cramer Hall is named in her honor.
Anna Manning Comfort, M.D. was an American physician who specialized in the treatment. She was the first woman medical graduate to practice in the state of Connecticut.
Ella B. Kendrick was an American temperance activist. She also served as the associate editor of New England Home, one of the leading prohibition newspapers of the country. Through the columns, she waged a systematic campaign against all liquor traffic.
Rev. Emma Pow Bauder was an American evangelist, missionary, reformer, and author. Affiliated with the Church of the United Brethren in Christ in Michigan since 1879, she soon thereafter relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she was also active with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.), the largest women's organization in the U.S. during the Gilded Age.
Belle de Rivera was an American clubwoman and a leader in the woman's club movement. She was a co-founder of 26 women's organizations between 1890 and 1915, including the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, subsequently becoming its first president. Rivera was also an active suffragist, serving as president of the New York Equal Suffrage League.
Professional Woman's League was an American charitable organization in New York City, founded by Mrs. A. M. Palmer, It was organized December 6, 1892, and incorporated February 28, 1893. By 1904, it numbered more than 500 women engaged in public pursuits, among them many of the representative actresses of England and the U.S.
Rainy Day Club was an American woman's organization founded by Bertha Welby in New York City, on November 5, 1896. The club's first president was Emma Beckwith. Subsequently, for 25 years, Mrs. A. M. Palmer served in that role.
Marcia Brooks O'Rielly was an American actress. She was also the founder of the Rainy Day Club in New York City, which led to shortened women's skirts, the rainy daisy, at the turn of the 20th century.
Jane Elizabeth Terrill Ruprecht was an American writer. She published poems, sketches, and juvenile stories in magazines and newspapers. Her poems were widely copied. She also did a large amount of work for children, consisting of poems, stories, and articles.
Scottie McKenzie Frasier (1884-1964) was an American teacher, author, newspaper editor, lecturer, and socialite. She became a suffrage advocate while living in New York City and co-founded the Dothan Equal Suffrage Association after removing to Dothan, Alabama. Frasier's activities during World War I included being a Four Minute Speaker.
