Women of Consequence: The Colorado Womens Hall of Fame

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Includes bibliographical references p. Library Availability Library Catalog Record. Frances Jacobs would go on to organize relief for people suffering form tuberculosis and the underpaid. Running the Gardens as a widowed woman at the time was a difficult feat, but within three years Mary successfully ran a profitable business. Mary spent a lot of time and money on charities, especially orphanages, and made sure to keep costs low for families during hard times like the Silver Panic of Sabin focused on education as a way to avoid some of the hardships she encountered during her childhood.

Florence attended Smith College, where she would develop her love for medicine and research. In , she became the first full-time female professor at any medical school in the entire country. In , she began to research how to fight tuberculosis at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. After many years in the lab, Dr.

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Archived from the original on February 4, Senate Hopefuls Struggle with Baggage of Past". News World Communications, Inc. Rocky Mountain Naturalist by Maxine Benson". The Frank Talmage Memorial Volume. The National Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Police Woman and Labor Advocate". Colorado Judicial Branch News. Doctor and Medical Reformer". Guests in Their Own House: Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

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National Council of Teachers of English. Retrieved March 24, A research star is born star in Antarctica". Choice, Courage, and Change Yield Character: An Interview with Mildred Pitts Walter". Literature-Based Language Arts Programs: National Aviation Hall of Fame. The Women's Review of Books.

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First woman to become the United States Secretary of State. Journalist, former Ziegfeld Follies performer. Founder of the Denver Symphony Orchestra. Transportation engineer for the Colorado Highway Department; won a sexual discrimination lawsuit against the Colorado Department of Highways when she was barred from working inside the Eisenhower Tunnel.

Quaker sociologist and major contributor to creating the academic discipline of Peace and Conflict Studies.

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Aided the settlement of former slaves during Colorado's Gold Rush. Socialite, philanthropist, and activist who became famous due to her survival of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Journalist, playwright and screenwriter, known primarily for writing the Broadway play Harvey.