Emma (Lee) Adams, (1851-1941)  |
- Carson City, San Francisco, CA
- First Lady, wife, mother
|
| Eva
Bertrand Adams, (1908-1991) |
- Washoe
Co. (Reno)
- government
(appointed U.S. Director of the Mint)
|
| Myrtle Beatrice Talcott Anker, (1894-1973) |
- Ranch owner & manager
- Pershing Co. Farm Bureau leader
- Mother, wife, sister, daughter, grandmother and great-grandmother, friend, and homemaker.
|
| Charlotte Hunter Arley, (1912-2006) |
- Washoe Co. (Reno)
- Attorney
- Champion of the underdog
|
| Caroline Elizabeth Aufdermaur , (1910-1991) |
- Pershing Co. (Lovelock)
- Caregiver, church club member, Farm Bureau, 4-H, Pink Ladies, Fairview Homemakers, American Association of Retired Persons, housewife, mother, and farm partner
|
| Dessie Lola Bailey, (1918-1999) |
- Clark Co. (Llas Vegas)
- Volunteer work with mentally handicapped children, wife
|
| Edna Idelle (Sinnamon) Balzar, (1881-1943) |
- Carson City, Washoe Co. (Reno)
- First Lady, wife, mother
|
| Edna
Catlin Baker, (1875-1957) |
- Washoe
Co. (Sparks)
- education
(teacher), government (elected to Sparks School Board
and University of Nevada Board of Regents), political
activist, wife
|
| Martha
Barlow, (1920-1993) |
- Mineral
Co. (Hawthorne)
- government
(elected County Clerk)
|
| Virginia Hode (Bradley) Belknap, (1847-1925) |
- Carson City, San Francisco, CA
- Governor's Official Hostess, wife, mother
|
| Mary (Poor) Bell, (1850-1925) |
- Washoe
Co. (Reno)
- First Lady, wife, mother
|
| Edith Naomi (Bremenkampf) Bernard, (1914 - 2005) |
- Carson City
- Wife, mother, civic activist
|
| Minnie
Nichols Blair, (1886-1972) |
- Churchill
Co. (Fallon)
- business
(Spudnut shop), ranching/agriculture (turkey farmer)
|
| Sarah Jane (Cox) Blasdel, (1826-1904) |
- Carson City, San Francisco, CA
- First Lady, wife, mother, philanthropist
|
| Kittie Wells Bonner, (1901-1985) |
- Smith Creek Valley & Austin, Lander Co.
- community activist and volunteer, deputy sheriff, newspaper correspondent
|
Libbie Conover Booth, (1856-1948) |
- Washoe Co. (Reno)
- Educator - Teacher and Principal
|
| Grace A. Bordewich, (1910-1999) |
- Carson City
- daughter, teacher, educator
|
| Eilley
Oram Bowers (1826-1903) |
- Washoe/Storey
Co.
- business
(boarding house, laundry, parties), psycho- spiritual
(seeress), wife, mother
|
| Vida Margaret (McClure) Boyle, (1880 - 1972) |
- Carson City, Washoe Co. (Reno)
- First Lady, wife, newspaper publisher, world traveler
|
| Emma Lou Montgomery Brandt (1917-2006) |
- Clark Co. (Las Vegas)
- teacher, drugstore owner/manager, housewife, Girl Scout leader, community volunteer
|
| Mildred
Bray, (1892-1975) |
- Carson
City
- government
(elected State Supt. of Education)
|
| Mildred
Matthews Breedlove |
- Clark
Co. (Las Vegas)
- author,
poet
|
| Carrie Choate Bullis, (1878-1964) |
- Humboldt Co. (Winnemucca, Paradise Valley, Denio)
- Teacher, mother, wife
|
| Carol Lu Ella Bullis-Echeverria, (1909-1988) |
- Humboldt Co. (Winnemucca) & Washoe Co. (Reno)
- Wife, mother, teacher, realtor
|
| Florence Sanford Burge, (1912-1986) |
- Washoe Co. (Reno)
- Journalist
|
| Thelma Davis Calhoun, (1913-1998) |
- Carson City
- civic leader, painter, wife, mother, grandmother, politics, Distinguished Nevadan, Nevada Woman of the Year
|
| Irma Marie (Callahan) Carville, (1890-1973) |
- Carson City, Washoe Co. (Reno)
- First Lady, wife, mother
|
| Florence
Humphrey Church, (1869-1922) |
- Washoe
Co. (Reno)
- political
activist, woman's club leader, wife, mother
|
| Hannah
Clapp, (1824-1908) |
- Carson
City, Washoe Co. (Reno)
- business,
education (private school operator), political activist
|
| Felice
Cohn, (1878-1961) |
- Carson
City
- attorney,
political activist, woman's club leader
|
| Mary Frances (Hopkins) Colcord, (1847-1923) |
- Carson
City
- First Lady, wife, mother
|
| Dr.
Eliza Cook, (1856-1947) |
- Douglas
Co. (Carson Valley)
- medicine
(physician), political activist, woman's club leader
|
| Martha Patricia (Herz) Cooke, (1923-2012) |
- Washoe County (Reno)
- Mother, wife, grandmother, great grandmother, civic activist, artist, friend and neighbor
|
| Beda
Brennecke Cornwall, (1907-1994) |
- Clark
Co. (Las Vegas)
- library
founder, wife, mother, education (teacher), woman's club
leader, government (elected to Las Vegas School Board)
|
| Dat-So-La-Lee,
(184?-1925) |
- Carson
City
- folk
artist (Washo basketmaker), wife
|
| Nellie
Mighels Davis, (1844-1945) |
- Carson
City
- journalist,
newspaper publisher, woman's club leader, wife, mother
|
| Marcia de Braga, (1937-2010) |
- Churchill County (Fallon) and Carson City
- Rancher, District 35 Nevada Assemblywoman, Newspaper Columnist,
wife, mother, grandmother, civic leader, political activist, political poet, Silver State International Association Rodeo co-founder, Nevada State High School Association Rodeo secretary, author and bird watcher.
|
| Joanne
De Longchamps, (1923-1983) |
- Washoe
Co. (Reno)
- author
(poet)
|
| Hazel
Baker Denton, (1887-1962) |
- Lincoln
Co. (Caliente)
- author,
education (teacher), woman's club leader, government (elected
to Nevada Assembly), wife, mother
|
| Una
Reilly Dickerson, (1881-1959) |
- Carson
City, Washoe Co. (Reno)
- First Lady, wife, mother
|
| Mary
Stoddard Doten, (1845-1914) |
- Washoe
Co. (Reno), Storey Co. (Gold Hill & Virginia City),
Lander Co. (Austin)
- wife,
mother, writer (journalist and poet), suffragist
|
| Geneva
Douglas, (1932-1993) |
- Clark
Co. (Las Vegas)
- science
(health physicist), woman's club leader, wife
|
| Alice Gottschalk Downer, (1913 - 2008) |
- Washoe Co. (Reno), Carson Co. (Carson City), Douglas Co.(Carson Valley)
- teacher, mother, community volunteer
|
| Anna
Neddenriep Dressler, (1898-1987) |
- Douglas
Co. (Carson Valley)
- rancher,
woman's club leader, wife, mother
|
| Edna
Crauch Trunnell Eddy,
(1876-1962) |
- Humboldt
(Winnemucca), and Pershing (Lovelock) Counties
- embalmer;
mortuary owner; elected public administrator
|
| Mary
Eldridge |
- White
Pine Co.
- education
(teacher), rancher
|
| Charlotte Rowberry Ellsworth, (1912-1998) |
- (Henderson, Las Vegas) Clark Co. (Reno) Washoe Co.
- Room Reservation Manager and Assistant Hotel Manager,
wife, mother, secretary
|
| Mary
Aileen Norton Evans, (1899-1993) |
- (Eureka Co. (Dunphy), Humboldt Co. (Winnemucca)
- telegrapher,
The Western Pacific Railroad Company
|
| Lilly Hing Fong (1925-2002) |
- Clark Co. (Las Vegas)
- Education (teacher), University Regent, UNLV and Community College of Southern Nevada benefactor, wife, mother, public service
|
| Imogene
(Jean) Evelyn Young Ford, (1929-1998) |
- Clark
Co., Washoe Co., Carson City (Las Vegas, Reno, Carson
City)
- citizen
activist, government (elected to State Senate and
Assembly), business (tour travel), education, research & preservation (Nevada Women's History Project
founder), mentor, role model.
|
| Katie
Christy Frazier, (1890-1991) |
- Washoe
Co. (Nixon)
- folk
arts, (Paiute storyteller), wife, mother
|
| Maude
Frazier, (1881-1963) |
- Clark
Co. (Las Vegas)
- education,
government (elected to Nevada Assembly, appointed Las
Vegas Supt. of Schools, appointed Lt. Governor), administrator
|
| Frances
Gertrude Friedhoff, (1895-1958) |
- Lyon
Co. (Yerington)
- government
(appointed to Nevada Senate), women's club leader
|
| Dr.
Mary Hill Fulstone, (1892-1987) |
- Lyon
Co. (Smith Valley)
- medicine
(physician), wife, mother
|
| Wuzzie
Dick George, (1879?-1984) |
- Churchill
Co. (Fallon/Stillwater)
- folk
arts (Paiute crafts), wife
|
| Viola Annie West Goldsworthy, (1896-1975) |
- Lyon Co. (Yerington), Washoe County (Reno)
- Wife, mother, organizer of education and children
|
| Martha Letcher Gottschalk, (1881-1973) |
- Pershing Co (Lovelock) and Washoe (Reno) Counties
- nurses aid, care giver, wife, mother, orphan
|
| Mary
Louise Grantz (originally Grenz), (1879-1970) |
- Humboldt
Co.
- mining
(prospector)
|
| Marvel Ranson Guisti, (1912-1979) |
- Washoe Co.
- Educator, counselor, scholarship coordinator, wife, mother, grandmother
|
| Mary
Hall, (187?-194?) |
- Eureka/Lander
Co. (Grass and Denay Valleys)
- folk
arts (Shoshone basketmaker)
|
| Fannie
Gore Hazlett, (1838-1933) |
- Lyon
Co. (Dayton)
- wife,
political activist
|
| Sadie
Dotson Hurst, (1857-1952) |
- Washoe
Co. (Reno)
- government
(elected to Nevada Assembly), political activist, woman's
club leader, wife, mother
|
| Theresa Smokey Jackson, (1916-1999) |
- Douglas Co. (Dresslerville)
- Educator, basket weaver,mother, wife, speaker for Washoe Tribe, interpreter, consultant
|
| Lubertha
Miller Johnson, (1906-1989) |
- Clark
Co. (Las Vegas)
- education
(teacher), civil rights and social welfare activist
|
Velma Bronn Johnston, (1912-1977) |
- Washoe
Co. (Reno)
- Secretary, rancher, wild horse advocate, and activist
|
| Elizabeth (Weyburn) Jones-Sifford, (1861-1925) |
- Churchill Co. (Stillwater), Lassen, CA
- First Lady, wife, mother
|
| Elizabeth (Fall) Kinkead, (1837-1907) |
- Lyon Co. (Virginia City), Sitak - AK, Carson City, NV
- First Lady, wife, mother
|
| Mabelle Jean Kirman, (1878-1947) |
- Carson City, Washoe Co. (Reno)
- First Lady, wife, mother
|
| Bertha
Knemeyer, (1885-19?) |
- Elko
Co. (Elko)
- education
(teacher), government (appointed Deputy State Supt.)
|
| Teresa D'Alosio Knight, (1891-1987) |
- Eureka Co. (Eureka)
- Lincoln Co. (Delamar)
- White Pine Co. (Lane City, Steptoe Valley, Ely)
- cowgirl, housewife
|
| Molly Flagg Knudtsen, (1915-2001) |
- Lander County (Grass Valley)
- Washoe County (Reno)
- Board of Regents member, enviromentalist, historic preservation advocate, wife, mother
|
| Jacalyn (Ross) Laxalt, (1927- 2004) |
- Carson
City, Scotsdale - AZ, Washoe Co. (Reno)
- First Lady, Drug and Alcoholism Counselor, wife, mother
|
| Therése
Alpetche Laxalt, (1891-1978) |
- Carson
City
- business
(boarding house/restaurant), wife, mother
|
| Jessie
Callahan Mahoney, (1877-1956) |
- Eureka
Co. (Dunphy, Beowawe)
- rancher,
wife, mother, education (teacher), government (elected
to Eureka Co. Commission)
|
| Lillian
Malcolm, (1868-19?) |
- Nye/Esmeralda
Co. (Rhyolite/Silver Peak)
- prospector
|
| Anne
H. Martin, (1875-1951) |
- Washoe
Co. (Reno)
- author,
education (university instructor), political activist,
woman's club leader
|
| Mila
Tupper Maynard, (1864-1926) |
- Washoe
Co. (Reno)
- religion
(Universalist minister), political activist, woman's club
leader, wife
|
| Jean
Sybil McElrath, (1917-1967) |
- Elko
Co. (Wells)
- author,
journalist
|
| Sister
Fredericka McGrath |
- Storey
Co. (Virginia City)
- social
welfare (administrator, Daughters of Charity)
|
| Laura
Mills, (1893-1973) |
- Churchill
Co. (Fallon)
- education
(teacher)
|
| Ida
Browder Mountford, (1889-1961) |
- Clark
Co. (Boulder City)
- business
(restaurant), government (elected to School Board)
|
| Virginia Moreira Moura , (1910-1994) |
- Pershing County (Lovelock)
- Housewife, mother, ranch partner, Deputy County Recorder, secretary/bookkeeper
|
| Leona Addie Daoust Munk , (1911-2003) |
- Pershing County (Lovelock)
- Ranching partner, bookkeeper, owner and operator of Kay-Lee's Drive-In
|
| Emma
Wixom Nevada, (1859-1940) |
- Lander
Co. (Austin)
- fine
arts (opera singer), wife, mother
|
| Florentina
Nostrossa, (1835-1922) |
- Eureka
Co. (Eureka)
- medicine
(nurse/midwife), wife, mother
|
| Carolyn J. (Randall) O'Callaghan, (1935 - 2004) |
- Carson City, Clark Co. (Las Vegas)
- First Lady, wife, mother
|
| Ellen G. Oddie, (1841-1914) |
- Carson City
- First Lady, wife, mother
|
| Ting Soo Hoo Ong, (1907-1925) |
- White Pine Co. (Ruth, McGill)
- cook, restaurant owner, wife, mother
|
| Mary
Leitch Oxborrow, (1852-1935) |
- White
Pine Co. (Lund)
- medicine
(midwife), wife, mother
|
|
| Maria Garifalou Pavlakis, (1912 - 1982) |
- White Pine Co. (Ely)
- Baker, pastry shop owner, wife, mother, hotel manager
|
| Josephine
(Josie) Reed Pearl, (1873-1962) |
- Humboldt
Co., White Pine Co. (Minerva, Ward)
- mining
(prospector), wife
|
| Lucille Elizabeth Emmert Petty, (1913-2006) |
- Carson City
- wife, mother, grandmother, civic leader
|
| Ida Louise (Liz) Pittman, (1893-1984) |
- Nye Co. (Tonopah), White Pine Co. (Ely), Ormsby Co. (Carson City), Clark Co. (Las Vegas)
- First Lady, music teacher, newspaper owner and publisher, wife, world traveler
|
| Edna
Covert Plummer, (1877-1972) |
- Eureka
Co. (Eureka)
- attorney,
business (banking), woman's club leader, wife
|
| Bertha
Eaton Raffetto, (1885-1952) |
- Washoe
Co. (Reno)
- fine
arts (composer), author, wife, mother
|
| Anna
Frances Elleser Rechel, (1884-1967) |
- Mineral
Co. (Rawhide)
- mining
(prospector)
|
| Olga
A. Wuertz Reifschnieder, (1900-1978) |
- Washoe
Co. (Reno)
- science
(botanist)
|
| Jennie
O'Hare Riordan, (1874-1965) |
- Carson
City, White Pine (White River Valley)
- education
(teacher), rancher, wife, mother
|
| Bertha
Bishop Ronzone, (1885-1969) |
- Nye/Clark
Co. (Manhattan/Tonopah/Las Vegas)
- business
(mercantile store owner), wife, mother
|
| Mary
Grace O'Donnell Rose, (1875-1935) |
- Humboldt
(Winnemucca)
- government
(elected to NV Assembly)
|
| Ruth C. Ruddell , (1893- 1970) |
- Pershing County (Pershing)
- Ranching
|
| Marjorie Ann (Guild) Russell, (1916-1997) |
- Carson City
- First Lady, Nevada State Museum Board of Trustees, wife, mother, teacher
|
| Louise (Zadow) Sadler, (1851 - 1923) |
- Eureka Co. (Eureka), Carson City
- First Lady, wife, mother
|
| Kathleen Sandoval, |
- Washoe Co. (Reno), Carson City
- First Lady, wife, mother, Non-Profit Family & Youth Intervention Program Director
|
| Ferminia
Sarras, (1840-1915) |
- Mineral County (Candelaria & Luning), Esmeralda County (Silver Peak)
- Mining (prospector), wife, mother
|
| Jesusa Saval, (1890-1982) |
- Lander Co. (Battle Mountain)
- ranch owner/operator
|
| Bette Norene (Hoge) Sawyer, (1923-2002) |
- Elko Co. (Elko), Carson Co. (Carson City), Clark Co. (Las Vegas)
- First Lady of Nevada, mother, wife, civic activist
|
| Julia (McCann) Scrugham, ( - 1954) |
- Carson City, Washington D.C., Washoe Co. (Reno)
- First Lady, wife, mother
|
| Yolande
Jacobsen Sheppard, (19?-19?) |
- Washoe
Co. (Reno)
- fine
arts (sculptor), wife, mother
|
| Helen
Rulison Shipley, (1870-1955) |
- Washoe
Co. (Reno), Nye Co. (Tonopah)
- medicine
(dentist), wife
|
| May
Bradford Shockley, (18?-1977) |
- Nye
Co. (Tonopah)
- mining
(mineral surveyor), wife
|
| Alice
Lucretia Smith, (1902-1990) |
- Washoe
Co. (Reno)
- political
activist
|
| Louise Aloys Smith, (1917-1999) |
- Pershing Co. (Lovelock)
- Military service, operatic soprano, assemblywoman, county library board member
|
| Mildred Sebbas Smith, (1910-1999) |
- Pershing Co. (Lovelock)
- hospital administrator, mother, wife
|
| Nancy Elnora (Knight) Sparks, (1857-1947) |
- Washoe Co. (Reno)
- Ormsby Co. (Carson City)
|
| Blanche
Sprague |
- Esmeralda
Co. (Goldfield)
- woman's
club leader, wife, mother
|
| Wilhelmine Heidtman Springmeyer, (1847-1928) |
- Douglas Co. (Carson Valley)
- Mother, wife, ranch owner
|
| Sallie Maria Ruperti Springmeyer, (1903-2007) |
- Washoe Co. (Reno) / Douglas Co. (Minden/Gardnerville)
- Attorney and public service activist
|
| Delphine
Squires, (1868-1961) |
- Clark
Co. (Las Vegas)
- journalist,
wife, political activist, woman's club leader
|
| Ellen M. Frame Stevenson, (1845-1892) |
- Carson City, Oakland - CA
- First Lady, wife
|
| Helen
J. Stewart, (1854-1926) |
- Clark
Co. (Las Vegas)
- rancher,
government (elected to School Board), wife, woman's club
leader, mother
|
| Mayme
Stocker, (1875-1972) |
- Clark
Co. (Las Vegas)
- business
(gaming licensee), wife, mother
|
| Idah
Meacham Strobridge, (1855-1932) |
- Pershing
Co. (Lovelock)
- author
|
| Ruth Davis Sullivan, (1896-1991) |
- Pershing Co. (Lovelock)
- teacher of piano, practical nurse
|
| Elizabeth Marie Rasmussen Sundberg, (1874-1962) |
- White Pine County (Cherry Creek)
- homemaker, community supporter, housekeeper, cook
|
| Laura May Tilden (1872-1928) |
- Storey County (Virginia City)
- lawyer, notary public, suffragist
|
| Kathryn
L. Marbaker Tubb, (1886-1957) |
- Nye
County (Ash Meadows)
- rancher,
proprietor of boarding house/brothel
|
| Lucy
Van DeVenter, (1848-1928) |
- Washoe
Co. (Reno)
- political
activist, woman's club leader, wife
|
| Julia
Viani |
- Mineral
Co.
- community
service
|
| Gue
Gim Wah, (1900-1988) |
- Lincoln
Co. (Castleton/Pioche)
- business
(boarding house/restaurant), wife
|
| Anna
B. Mudd Warren, (1863-1944) |
- Washoe
(Reno), Storey (Virginia City)
- attorney
|
| Edith
West |
- Lyon
(Yerington)
- women's
club leader, wife, mother
|
| Dr.
Jeanne Weir, (1870-1950) |
- Washoe
Co. (Reno)
- education
(university professor), administrator, historian
|
| Dixie Olean Karr Westergard, (1935-2007) |
- Carson County (Carson)
- teacher, historian, author, mother
|
| Margaret
(Peg) Marean Wheat, (1908-1988) |
- Churchill
Co. (Fallon)
- author,
science (anthropologist), wife
|
| Frances
Slaven Williamson, (1842-1919) |
- Lander
Co. (Austin), Washoe Co. (Reno)
- author,
educator (teacher), journalist, newspaper publisher, political
activist, woman's club leader, wife, mother
|
| Bird
Wilson, (1865-1946) |
- Goldfield (Esmeralda), Manhattan (Nye)
- court reporter, secretary, stock broker, mine owner, lobbyist, women's rights advocate, suffragist, woman's club leader
|
| Carrie Ellen Willis
Wilson, (1868-1925) |
- Pine Grove, Nordyke, Mason Valley, Yerington, Lyon County, Nevada
- Teacher, wife, mother, civic volunteer
|
| Hazel Bell Wines, (1885-1949) |
- Humboldt Co. (Winnemucca), Elko Co. (Ruby Valley), Washoe Co. (Reno)
- Teacher, politician, mother, wife
|
| Sarah
Winnemucca, (1844-1891) |
- Washoe
Co. (Pyramid Lake), Pershing (Lovelock), Humboldt (McDermitt)
- education
(teacher, school organizer), political activist, wife
|
| Josie
Alma Woods, (1889-1983) |
- Eureka
Co. (Eureka)
- government
(elected to Nevada Assembly), rancher
|
| Florence
Anker Young, 1890-1976 |
- Pershing
Co. (Lovelock)
- rancher,
woman's club leader, journalist, political activist (woman's
suffrage)
|
