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Esther Clayson Pohl Lovejoy (1869-1967)
Physician Esther Clayson Pohl Lovejoy took an active and significant role in public health reform, suffrage, and politics in early twentieth century Portland. Lessons …
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Fortnightly Club of Eugene
Fortnightly Club of Eugene is a women’s study group started in 1893 “to bring together women interested in artistic, economic, philanthropic, literary, and scientific pursuits …
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Joanna M. Cain (1950 - )
Joanna M. Cain is an internationally known physician, teacher, and researcher in women’s health and gynecologic oncology. Cain joined the faculty of the Oregon Health …
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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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Abigail Scott Duniway (1834-1915)
Outspoken and often controversial, Abigail Scott Duniway is remembered as Oregon's Mother of Equal Suffrage and "the pioneer Woman Suffragist of the great Northwest." As …
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Carol Menken-Schaudt (1957–)
Carol Menken came to Oregon State University to study broadcasting, grateful for a basketball scholarship that would pay for her tuition. She would graduate OSU …
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Lola Greene Baldwin (1860-1957)
On April 1, 1908, Portland Mayor Harry Lane administered the police oath to forty-eighty-year-old Lola Greene Baldwin, the first woman hired under civil service rules …
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Marian B. Towne (1880 - 1966)
As the first woman elected to the Oregon House of Representatives (1914), and one of the first women in the state to serve with the …
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The Martha Washington (building)
In 1911, the Portland Women’s Union, a group of volunteers who created one of the first organizations in Oregon to provide safe housing for …
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Betty LaDuke (1933-)
Oregon artist and writer Betty LaDuke has gained an international reputation for her murals, paintings, and sketches. Her work tends to express socialist progress and …
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