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Lucretia Longshore Blankenurg

“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 was Hannah E. Myers, also a Quaker, was an educator, abolitionist, suffragist and medical doctor. Hannah was the first medical doctor in Philadelphia, and the police were called in for her graduation fearing a demonstrati

WE SUPPORT ROSA

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 her own. She has left her family, work and pets. Rosa is beautiful, bright, and so positive. She has often said that she is not only doing this for herself but for all that are in her position.

Ruth McCormick Simms

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 investigate living conditions among streetcar employees when she was sixteen. Later that year, her father became William McKinley’s presidential campaign manager and she accompanied him on a national tour. In1898 he was elect

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