Claribel Cone
Claribel Cone significantly contributed to two distinct fields: biology and the patronage of modern French art.
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Katharine Dexter McCormick
Trailblazing U.S. suffragist, philanthropist, and visionary. Her groundbreaking contributions paved the way for the development of the first birth control pill.
Annie Turnbo Malone
Businesswoman, inventor, and philanthropist who was one of the first African American women to become a millionaire.
Mary Cunningham
Irish philanthropist and war worker
Amanda Smith
Methodist preacher and former enslaved woman who funded The Amanda Smith Orphanage and Industrial Home for Abandoned and Destitute Colored Children outside Chicago
Nellie Cashman
Irish-American/Canadian frontier entrepreneur and philanthropist
Alice Hart
Irish philanthropist, artist and businesswoman
Edith Onians
Australian welfare worker
Amey Daldy
New Zealand feminist and suffragist
Mary Anne Locke
Irish distiller and philanthropist