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Famous Firsts By American Women: 1587-2008
Info Lists The famous firsts by American women list. These famous women in American history are known for creating American history firsts during the years 1587 to 2008. This list includes the first American women from all walks of life: from first American woman poet, first American woman scientist, first American woman author, first American woman astronaut, first American Female Nobel prize winner, first American-born saint, to first American woman rabbi and so on. Read the comments next to each name, to know the American Firsts achieved by these women. Source: Information Please Database.
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1587“ Virginia Dare is the first person born in America to English parents (Roanoke Island, Virginia) „ - 2
1612“ Anne Bradstreet's book of poems, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, is published in England, making her the first published American woman writer
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1774“ Elizabeth Ann Seton establishes the first American community of the Sisters of Charity, in Emmitsburg, Maryland. In 1975 she became the first native-born American to be made a saint by the Roman Catholic Church „ - 4
1821“ Elizabeth Blackwell receives her M.D. degree from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y., becoming the first woman in the U.S. with a medical degree „ - 5
1833“ Lucy Hobbs becomes the first woman to graduate from dental school, the Ohio College of Dental Surgery „ - 6
Arabella Mansfield
1846“ Arabella Mansfield is granted admission to practice law in Iowa, making her the first woman lawyer. A year later, Ada H. Kepley, of Illinois, graduates from the Union College of Law in Chicago. She is the first woman lawyer to graduate from a law school „ - 7 1842“ Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman to be admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earns her B.S. degree. She becomes the first female professional chemist in the U.S „
- 8 1830“ Belva Ann Lockwood becomes the first woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court „
- 9 1821“ Mary Baker Eddy establishes the Church of Christ, Scientist, becoming the first woman to found a major religion, Christian Science „
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Henrietta Johnston
1674“ Henrietta Johnston begins to work as a portrait artist in Charles Town (now Charleston), South Carolina, making her the first known professional woman artist in America „ - 11
Mary Katherine Goddard
1738“ Mary Katherine Goddard and her widowed mother become publishers of the Providence Gazette newspaper and the annual West's Almanack, making her the first woman publisher in America. In 1775, Goddard became the first woman postmaster in the country (in Baltimore), and in 1777 she became the first printer to offer copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers' names. In 1789 Goddard opened a Baltimore bookstore, probably the first woman in America to do so „ - 12
Anne Parrish
1888“ Anne Parrish establishes, in Philadelphia, the House of Industry, the first charitable organization for women in America „ - 13 1752“ Mary Kies becomes the first woman to receive a patent, for a method of weaving straw with silk „
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Rebecca Crumpler
1831“ Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first black woman to receive an M.D. degree. She graduated from the New England Female Medical College „ - 15 1838“ Victoria Claflin Woodhull becomes the first woman presidential candidate in the United States when she is nominated by the National Radical Reformers „
- 16 1850“ Sarah E. Goode becomes the first African-American woman to receive a patent, for a bed that folded up into a cabinet. Goode, who owned a furniture store in Chicago, intended the bed to be used in apartments „
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Susanna M. Salter
1860“ Susanna Medora Salter becomes the first woman elected mayor of an American town, in Argonia, Kansas „ - 18
Alice Guy-Blaché
1873“ Alice Guy Blach, the first American woman film director, shoots the first of her more than 300 films, a short feature called La Fee aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy) „ - 19
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
1867“ H.H.A. Beach's "Gaelic Symphony" is the first symphony by a woman performed in the United States, and possibly the world „ - 20
Sally Priesand
1946“ Sally Jean Priesand is ordained as the first woman rabbi in the United States „ - 21
Juanita Kreps
“ Juanita Kreps becomes the first woman director of the New York Stock Exchange. She later becomes the first woman appointed Secretary of Commerce „ - 22 1924“ Sarah Caldwell becomes the first woman to conduct at New York's Metropolitan Opera House „
- 23 1951“ Dr. Sally K. Ride becomes the first American woman to be sent into space „
- 24 1930“ Sandra Day O'Connor is appointed by President Reagan to the Supreme Court, making her its first woman justice „
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Suzanne Vaillande
“ Suzanne Vaillande appears in The Bird Catcher, in New York, the first ballet presented in the U.S. She was also probably the first woman to work as a choreographer and set designer in the United States „
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Famous Firsts By American Women: 1587-2008 at 3/29/2010 2:28 PM