| Eva
Bertrand Adams, (1908-1991) |
- Washoe
Co. (Reno)
- government
(appointed U.S. Director of the Mint)
|
| 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
|
| 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 |
- Mineral
Co. (Hawthorne)
- government
(elected County Clerk)
|
| Minnie
Nichols Blair, (1886-1972) |
- Churchill
Co. (Fallon)
- business
(Spudnut shop), ranching/agriculture (turkey farmer)
|
| Eilley
Oram Bowers (1826-1903) |
- Washoe/Storey
Co.
- business
(boarding house, laundry, parties), psycho- spiritual
(seeress), wife, mother
|
| Mildred
Bray, (1892-1975) |
- Carson
City
- government
(elected State Supt. of Education)
|
| Mildred
Matthews Breedlove |
- Clark
Co. (Las Vegas)
- author,
poet
|
| Florence Sanford Burge |
- Washoe Co. (Reno)
- Journalist
|
| 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
|
| Dr.
Eliza Cook, (1856-1947) |
- Douglas
Co. (Carson Valley)
- medicine
(physician), political activist, woman's club leader
|
| 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
|
| 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) |
- Washoe
Co. (Reno)
- law
librarian, 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
|
| Anna
Nedennrief 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
|
| Mary
Aileen Norton Evans, (1899-1993) |
- Dunphy,
Eureka County; Winnemucca, Humboldt County
- telegrapher,
The Western Pacific Railroad Company
|
| Lilly Hing Fong (1925-2002) |
- Las Vegas (Clark County)
- 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) |
- Yerington, Lyon County ; Reno , Washoe County
- 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)
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| Bertha
Knemeyer, (1885-19?) |
- Elko
Co. (Elko)
- education
(teacher), government (appointed Deputy State Supt.)
|
| Therese
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
|
| Mary
Leight Oxborrow, (1852-1935) |
- White
Pine Co. (Lund)
- medicine
(midwife), wife, mother
|
| Josephine
(Josie) Reed Pearl, (1873-1962) |
- Humboldt
Co., White Pine Co. (Minerva, Ward)
- mining
(prospector), wife
|
| 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
|
| Ferminia
Sarras, (1840-1915) |
- Nye
Co. (Candelaria)
- mining
(prospector), wife
|
| 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
Smith, (?-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
|
| Blanche
Sprague |
- Esmeralda
Co. (Goldfield)
- woman's
club leader, wife, mother
|
| Delphine
Squires, (1868-1961) |
- Clark
Co. (Las Vegas)
- journalist,
wife, political activist, woman's club leader
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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)
|
