Extraordinary Women of the East Bay

Meet the Women

Image Courtesy of Little Compton Historical Society, by Dora Atwater Millikin

Rose Butler Browne

Image Courtesy of theRhode Island Black Heritage Society

Mabel Norman Cerio

Image Courtesy of theNewport Historical Society

Elizabeth H. Clark

Image Courtesy of theJamestown Historical Society

Theodora DeWolf Colt

Image Courtesy ofLinden Place Mansion and Museum

Mary Dunbar Sweet Cowley

Image Courtesy of theNewport Historical Society

Mary Merchant DeWolf

Image Courtesy of theWarren Preservation Society and the Merchant DeWolf Family

Mary H. Dickerson

Image Courtesy of theRhode Island Black Heritage Society

Noreen Stonor Drexel

Image Courtesy ofSalve Regina University Archives

Mary Barrett Dyer

Image Courtesy of theNewport Historical Society

Marguerite Elliott Eddy

Image Courtesy of theJamestown Historical Society

Image Courtesy of thePortsmouth Historical Society

Emeline Burke Eldredge

Image Courtesy of thePortsmouth Historical Society

Maud Howe Elliott

Image Courtesy ofNancy Whipple Grinnell

Image Courtesy of theTiverton Historical Society

Ann Smith Franklin

Image Courtesy of theNewport Historical Society

Image Courtesy ofStephan Brigidi

Annie Dodge Gray

Image Courtesy ofHeidi Benedict

Image Courtesy of theRhode Island Black Heritage Society

Mira Smith Hoffman

Image Courtesy of theBarrington Preservation Society and the Girl Scout Office

Julia Ward Howe

Image Courtesy of theLibrary of Congress

Anne Marbury Hutchinson

Image Courtesy of thePortsmouth Historical Society

Image Courtesy of theLittle Compton Historical Society

Eleanor Walker Keyes

Image Courtesy of theRhode Island Black Heritage Society

Image Courtesy of theNewport Historical Society

Sophia Robbins Little

Image Courtesy of theRhode Island Historical Society

Rebecca Touro Lopez

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Marjorie Van Wickle Lyon

Image Courtesy ofBlithewold Mansion, Gardens, and Arboretum

Genevieve McGlinchey Mathison

Image Courtesy ofMarian Mathison Desrosiers

Mary Stearns McGaughan

Image Courtesy of theJamestown Historical Society

Lucille McKillop

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Mary Robinson Miner

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Image Courtesy ofPam Meyer

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Murphy

Image Courtesy ofGeorge Hail Free Library

Florence Kerins Murray

Image Courtesy ofMarian Mathison Desrosiers

Jane Thompson Nelle

Image Courtesy ofHerreshoff Marine Museum and the Nelle Family

Sarah Haggar Wheaten Osborn

Image Courtesy of theNewport Historical Society

Elizabeth Alden Pabodie

Image Courtesy of theLittle Compton Historical Society

Image Courtesy ofStephan Brigidi

Natalie Peterson Luethi

Image Courtesy of theBarrington Preservation Society

Elizabeth Woodberry Pratt

Image Courtesy of theNewport Historical Society

Charity "Duchess" Quamino

Image Courtesy of Sandra Smith

Harriet A. Rice

Image Courtesy of theRhode Island Black Heritage Society

Maria DeWolf Rogers

Image Courtesy of theBristol Historical & Preservation Society

Mary Richardson Rosengarten

Image Courtesy of theJamestown Historical Society

Catherine "Kitty" Stewart Shadd

Image Courtesy of theBarrington Preservation Society and Paul Darling

Edna Cory Snell

Image Courtesy ofUnion Public Library

Dorcas Seabury Soule

Image Courtesy of theNational Register of Historic Places

Image Courtesy of theRedwood Library and Athenaeum

Mary Clark Sturtevant

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Nina Manchester Sunderland

Image Courtesy of theTiverton Historical Society

Cynthia Taggart

Image Courtesy of theMiddletown Historical Society

Image Courtesy of theLibrary of Congress

Izannah F. Walker

Image Courtesy of theBristol Historical & Preservation Society

Image Courtesy ofScholastic Press

Mary Tefft "Happy" White

Image Courtesy of theBarrington Preservation Society

Josephine Field Wilbor

Image Courtesy of theLittle Compton Historical Society

Sarah Soule Wilbour

Image Courtesy of theLittle Compton Historical Society

Catharine Morris Wright

Image Courtesy of theJamestown Historical Society

Josephine Silone Yates

Image Courtesy ofLincoln University Picture Collection, Inman E. Page Library, Jefferson City, Mo

Extraordinary Women of Rhode Island: A Database

The database here includes the above sixty women, as well as other Rhode Island women not included in the exhibit.

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