Bertha Palmer
President Board of Lady Managers Columbian Exposition
President Board of Lady Managers Columbian Exposition
American philanthropist and woman suffrage leader
English philanthropist active in Australia
Anne Green volunteered for decades with Adelaide’s City Mission.
Dr Lozier graduated (1853) at the Syracuse Medical College, and began to practice in New York City, where she had great success as a surgeon.
Proficient in modern Greek, Arabic, and Syriac, she wrote a number of novels and accounts of travel. In 1892, with her twin sister, Mrs. Margaret Dunlop Gibson, she discovered in the library of the convent of St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai, the palimpsest containing the Four Gospels in Syriac, representing the oldest text known of any part of the new Testament.
An Australian activist and philanthropist, the causes she supported were wide-ranging, although with a common core around the welfare of women and children in the home.
English philanthropist
English writer, translator, and philanthropist.
English preacher, known as the Mother of the Salvation Army.