User:Tokyogirl79LVA/Virginian women

Here is a list of Virginian women that I've discovered through my work with the Library of Virginia. Hopefully all of them can pass notability guidelines, but I'm aware that some of them may fall short of GNG. However, ideally we should be able to find some way to include them somewhere, if at all possible. I'm going to include some sourcing for them, but this is not an exhaustive list of sourcing since I wasn't always able to make as thorough a search as possible. I will also include some names for women who have articles but are woefully slim in details.

Given that there's been interest in some of these for Black History Month next year, I'm going to try to bold the names of African Americans in this list in case anyone wants to get a jump start on them.

A

 * Cornelia Storrs Adair, president of the National Education Association
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 * Mollie Holmes Adams, has article but could be expanded
 * Pauline Adams, suffragist
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 * Queen Ann (Pamunkey chief), maybe could be expanded?

B

 * Marjorie Lee Bailey, first ordained Baptist minister in the US
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 * Odessa Pittard Bailey, first woman in Virginia to hold a judicial post higher than justice of the peace or county trial justice.
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 * Mary Julia Baldwin, could be expanded?
 * Aline Elizabeth Black, educator
 * , lva rtd,hr, Blue Laws and Black Codes, book, the crisis, Footsteps article, The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America, Equal-pay lesson took a long time to learn, The Virginian-pilot, 02/10/2008


 * Dorothy Eva Rouse Bottom, newspaper editor
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 * Rosa L. Dixon Bowser, educator and civic leader
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 * Sarah Ann Brock, also known as "Virginia Madison" (pseudonym) and also referred to occasionally as Sallie Brock Putnam. Author, whose work is still in print today.
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 * Lucy Goode Brooks, a former slave that was integral in establishing the Friends’ Asylum for Colored Orphans, an orphanage for African-American children that was opened after the Civil War.
 * EV, Style Weekly, historical marker, UVA Press book, U of R article (likely primary, given that it's about a class), LVA
 * Some sourcing about her orphanage: ,


 * Isobel Lamont Stewart Bryan, extremely active in preserving Virginia history.
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 * Sarah Poage Caldwell Butler
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 * Evelyn Thomas Butts, civil rights activist, challenged Virginia's poll tax. She's mentioned here in relation to Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections, since the two sort of went together.
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C

 * Sarah "Sadie" Heath Cabaniss, nurse and founder of the Instructive Visiting Nurse Association. UVA endowed a chair in her honor
 * DBV (not on Internet), Cabaniss Hall at MCV is named after her,


 * Mary Virginia Ellet Cabell, founding officer of the DAR
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 * Christiana Burdett Campbell
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 * Edna Meade Colson, former dean of University of Virginia dept of Education, partner to Amaza Lee Meredith, lived at Azurest South
 * Library of Virginia, Museum of Education
 * Elizabeth Ambler Brent Carrington, civic leader, a series of letters she wrote are housed at UVA and are considered quite notable
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 * Jane Dennison Carson, historian and author
 * DBV (not on Internet), listed here as a source, and here, [ http://www.jstor.org/stable/40289431]


 * Ruth LaCountess Harvey Wood Charity, civil rights activist and defense attorney
 * EV, lva


 * Jean Esther Outland Chrysler, art collector and wife of Walter P. Chrysler Jr.
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 * Martha Louisa Cocke, second president of Hollins University and first woman college president in Virginia.
 * DBV (not on Internet), ,


 * Sarah Cobb Johnson Hagan Cocke, civic and organization leader, author
 * DBV (not on Internet),, ,


 * Naomi Silverman Cohn, civic activist, cofounded the Virginia Women's Council of Legislative Chairmen of State Organizations (later the Virginia Council on State Organizations)
 * DBV (not on Internet), ,


 * Edna Meade Colson, VSU professor (also looks to be LGBT related? - that source is listed here by the Virginia Department of History, so should be considered a RS)
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 * Martha Bell Conway, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia
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 * Esther Georgia Irving Cooper, civil rights advocate, participated in Carter v. School Board of Arlington County, mother of Esther Victoria Cooper
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 * Esther Victoria Cooper, editor of Freedomways
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 * Hannah Lee Corbin, planter, early advocate women's rights
 * DBV (not on Internet),, ,


 * Ann Cotton (colonist), wrote about Bacon's Rebellion (might be necessary to write a joint article about her and her husband John)
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 * Emily Couric, Senator (has an article but it's very, very brief)
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 * Katherine Cabell Claiborne Cox, historian, was VP (elected and then permanently honorary) of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (Preservation Virginia) and president of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, organizations that helped save the John Marshall House (may not be notable enough for her own article, there's little out there)
 * DBV (not on Internet),


 * Fanny Graves Crenshaw, Professor of Physical Education, Emerita at the University of Richmond, Director of Athletics, Westhampton College (not sure if she'd pass NPROF or not, which seems to be the main thing she may qualify for)
 * DBV (not on Internet), primary


 * Flora Marina Trimmer Crater, feminist, political activist
 * ,, Who's Who, , (brief mention), (p. 100 -101), ,

D

 * Daphne Lowell Dailey, journalist
 * DBV (not on Internet), special collections at U of Arkansas,, [


 * Mary Elizabeth Nottingham Day, artist, possible not notable on her own but maybe could warrant a larger mention at Horace Day like a subsection?
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 * Jennie Serepta Dean, founded the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth, could maybe have at least a subsection in this article? Primarily known for the school but could probably pass on her own.
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 * Emily Wayland Dinwiddie, social worker, reformer
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 * Bertha Louise Douglass, attorney, civil rights activist, one of the first three black women to become an attorney in Virginia (finding sources for her will be hard)
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 * Thelma Brumfield Dunn, pathologist, medical researcher
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E

 * Virginia Randolph Ellett, founder of St. Catherine's School (Richmond, Virginia) (likely not independently notable, but could warrant her own section in the article, at least?)
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F

 * Lillie Pearl Havermale Fearnow, chef, businesswoman, and the titular "Mrs. Fearnow" of "Mrs. Fearnow’s Brunswick Stew", a popular brand of canned Brunswick stew that was sold in the South.
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 * Edith Mansford Fitzgerald (also occasionally referred to as Elizabeth for some reason), a deaf teacher, author, and creator of the Fitzgerald Key, received an honorary Master's from the Columbia Institution for the Deaf
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 * Elizabeth Merrill Furness, businesswoman and winemaker, also sang with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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G

 * Marion Gibbs Galland, member of the Virginia House of Delegates
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 * Mary Jeffery Galt, preservationist and co-founder of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
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 * Irene Langhorne Gibson, reformer and one of the original Gibson Girls
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 * Zenobia G. Gilpin, physician and president of the Richmond Medical Society
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 * Meta Glass, President of Sweet Briar College from 1925–1946
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 * Thelma Young Gordon, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia
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H

 * Judith Hope
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 * Nancy Hale, author, also served as the first female news reporter for the New York Times
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 * Dorothy M. Hamm, civil rights activist
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 * Nora Spencer Hamner, public health nurse
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 * Orie Latham Hatcher, author and founder of the Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth
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 * Delia Irving Hayden, educator, founder of Franklin Normal and Industrial Institute and namesake of the Hayden High School (Franklin, Virginia)
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 * Rachel Henderlite, the first woman ordained in the Presbyterian Church in the United States
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I

 * In This Our Life (novel). While this is a novel and not a person, it was written by Ellen Glasgow and even won a Pulitzer Prize... and is extremely incomplete, despite even being made into a feature film

J

 * Annabella Ravenscroft Gibson Jenkins (also known as Annabelle), founder of Retreat Hospital/Retreat Doctors’ Hospital (would probably be best to create an article about the hospital and incorporate a section about her)
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 * Mary Catherine "Kate" Williams Jeter, Baptist lay leader, pres. VaWMU (may very likely not be notable enough for an article - I couldn't find anything that was a RS)
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 * Georgeanna Seegar Jones, pioneer of in-vitro fertilization (has an article, but it's very light when you figure her accomplishments)
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 * Thomasina Jordan, Native American civil rights activist (article needs improvement)
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K

 * Mary Eugenia Kapp, chemist
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 * Gladys Brown Keating, member of the Virginia House of Delegates
 * obit, primary,, , info on husband,


 * Emma Virginia Kelly, founder of the Daughters of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World (likely not independently notable)
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 * Christine Herter Kendall, artist and patron of the arts
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L

 * Dolores Phalen Lescure, mayor of Staunton, Virginia (unsure of what notability guidelines are for mayors)
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 * Rebecca Pearl Lovenstein, first woman to be admitted to practice law in Virginia
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 * Mildred Delores Jeter Loving, one of the parties in Loving v. Virginia. The case is very well covered, but would she merit an article outside of this?
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M

 * Mary Tyler Freeman Cheek McClenahan, civic leader and author
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 * Dorothy McDiarmid, member of the House of Delegates
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 * Bessie Niemeyer Marshall, illustrator
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 * Vivian Carter Mason, civil rights activist
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 * Amaza Lee Meredith, architect, educator and artist (has an article but could be expanded?)
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 * Jane Minor, also known as Gensey Snow, healer and emancipator
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 * Orianna Russell Moon, Civil War doctor (sister to Lottie Moon)
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 * Undine Smith Moore, composer (has an article, but it's very short)
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N

 * Zelda Kingoff Nordlinger (needs to be merged with Zelda Nordlinger)

P

 * Anne Dobie Peebles, political activist
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 * Lavinia Marian Fleming Poe, first black female lawyer to pass the bar in Virginia
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 * Caroline F. Putnam, schoolteacher
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R

 * Della Hayden Raney, 1st AA comm. in Army Nurse Corps
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 * Jessie M. Rattley, needs to be expanded
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 * Eudora Ramsay Richardson, writer, suffrage advocate (may not be independently notable)
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 * Lora McGlasson Robins, philanthropist and art collector - her husband E. Claiborne Robins doesn't have an article either and the two could perhaps merit an article together if all else fails?
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 * Isabel Wood Rogers, Presbyterian educator and lay leader (possibly nn enough for Wikipedia)
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 * Elizabeth Henry Campbell Russell, needs expansion
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S

 * Mary Wingfield Scott, co-founder of the Historic Richmond Foundation, historian, author and preservationist, frequently cited as a RS, also LGBT related
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 * Eleanor Parker Sheppard, first woman mayor of Richmond, Virginia
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 * Jean Miller Skipwith, book collector
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 * Ora Brown Stokes, social reformer, civil rights advocate
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 * Kathryn Haesler Stone, Rep in the House of Delegates
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 * Queena Stovall, artist (could be expanded?)

T

 * Sandra Treadway, historian, author, current State Librarian, State Archivist, and State Coordinator
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V

 * Lila Meade Valentine, needs expansion
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 * Jane Vobe, owner of the King's Arms Tavern (maybe an article on one or the other? or have an article on her that covers the tavern?)
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W

 * Melissa Warfield, physician
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Z

 * Martha Anne Woodrum Zillhardt, aviator
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