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claimed two different years of birth throughout her life but research seems to indicate that she was probably born sometime in 1844, some accounts list the date as July 4th, in upstate New York. Her mother was Native American, maybe part part Ojibwa and part Chippewa, and her father was a black gentleman’s servant. Edmonia’s Chippewa name was Wildfire. She was orphaned at a early age and she claimed that she was raised by some of her mother’s relatives. Her older brother,

Jill Ker Conway, a historian who chronicled the role of women in American society and then made history of her own, serving as the first female president of Smith College and one of the first female board members of several major corporations, died June 1 at her home in Boston. She was 83. A spokesperson for Smith College, Stacey Schmeidel, confirmed the death but said she did not know the cause. The Australian-born Dr. Conway was just 40 when, in 1975, she became the first w

Louise Pound was born on June 30th in 1872, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Her mother felt that public school was “too stereotyped,” and therefore educated her three children at home. She came from a very high-achieving family, with a father who was a district court judge and state senator. Pound was the middle child, and was extremely competitive. She received her bachelor’s degree as well as a music diploma from the University of Nebraska in 1892, followed by her master’s degree in