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“As a child I experienced some persecution because my. Mother was a doctor. At school on elf the teachers advised the children not to play with me because my mother was an improper person.” Lucretia Longshore Blankenurg was born May 8th, 1845 on a farm near New Lisbon, Ohio. Her father was Thomas Ellwood Longshore, a Quaker schoolteacher, abolitionist, and supporter of women’s rights. He actually lost his first teaching job because of his abolitionist beliefs. Her mother w

HERSTORY presents, "I REMEMBER" a retrospective of women from this area. Mancos Methodist Church Fellowship Hall April 28th at 7 pm Suggested $10 admission, but please come prepared to be generous. ALL proceeds go directly to Rosa. ROSA BELONGS HERE! Rosa Sabido has been in sanctuary for over 300 days at the Mancos United Methodist Church. She is an amazing woman that I have come to know a little and admire a lot! She has given up life as she knew it through no fault of h

Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms was born on March 27, 1880, in Cleveland Ohio, one of three children born to Marcus Hanna and Charlotte Augusta Rhodes Hanna. She was born into privilege, and attended elite private schools, Hathaway Brown School in Ohio, and later The Masters School in Hobbs Ferry, New York and then Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, Connecticut, she received most of her education from her father, senator Senator Marcus Alonzo "Mark" Hanna. He sent her to invest