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  • Eva Emery Dye (1855-1947)

    As an impressionable and imaginative girl growing up in Illinois, Eva Emery pored over every historical novel written by Sir Walter Scott. Within the pages …

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  • Mae Harrington Whitney Cardwell (1853-1929)

    Mae Harrington, the first woman to hold a position on a hospital staff in Oregon, was born in Cherry Hill, Pennsylvania, on July 23, 1853. …

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  • Sara Bard Field (1882-1974)

    Poet and suffragist Sara Bard Field lived in Portland in the early part of the twentieth century. Her poetry, her support of women’s suffrage, and …

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  • Maurine Neuberger (1906-2000)

    Maurine Brown Neuberger entered politics as an Oregon state legislator and, as of 2010, was Oregon’s first and only woman to serve in the United …

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44 results

  • Eva Emery Dye (1855-1947)

    As an impressionable and imaginative girl growing up in Illinois, Eva Emery pored over every historical novel written by Sir Walter Scott. Within the pages …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Mae Harrington Whitney Cardwell (1853-1929)

    Mae Harrington, the first woman to hold a position on a hospital staff in Oregon, was born in Cherry Hill, Pennsylvania, on July 23, 1853. …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Sara Bard Field (1882-1974)

    Poet and suffragist Sara Bard Field lived in Portland in the early part of the twentieth century. Her poetry, her support of women’s suffrage, and …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Maurine Neuberger (1906-2000)

    Maurine Brown Neuberger entered politics as an Oregon state legislator and, as of 2010, was Oregon’s first and only woman to serve in the United …

    Oregon Encyclopedia