Category: Women/Gender

HARD HATTED WOMEN

HARD HATTED WOMEN is a Cleveland-based group dedicated to promoting equal opportunity for women in the skilled trades; the organization's most visible work has been in the field of construction. Hard Hatted Women was founded in 1979 as a support group by three tradeswomen and was modeled after a Pittsburgh group with the same name. This nonprofit, membership-based organization is governed by a board of directors.

HATHAWAY BROWN

HATHAWAY BROWN, the oldest surviving private girls' school in the Cleveland area, was founded in 1876 as an adjunct to the BROOKS MILITARY SCHOOL, the foremost private school for boys at the time. Its original name was the Brooks School for Ladies. The school was proprietary in nature and had several owners, including Miss Anne Hathaway Brown.

HAUSER, ELIZABETH

ELIZABETH HAUSER, (16 March, 1873 - 11 November, 1958), writer and suffrage leader, was born in Girard, Ohio, to David and Mary (Bixler) Hauser. After graduation from high school, she began her career as a journalist with local newspapers, including the Warren Tribune Chronicle.

HAWGOOD, BELLE DIBLEY

HAWGOOD, BELLE DIBLEY (20 July 1869-2 Feb. 1941) made an important regional contribution to botany by collecting approximately 1,000 herbarium specimens, most from northern Ohio, over a period of more than forty years. Hawgood was born on a farm in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, now South Milwaukee, to Ebeneezer and Isabella Dibley. When she was a teenager, her mother taught her to botanize.

HAYASHI, MASUMI

HAYASHI, MASUMI (3 September1945- 17August 2006) was a Japanese-American photographer known for her panoramic collages capturing typically abandoned or isolated landscapes.

HEYDEMANN, LILY CARTHEW

HEYDEMANN, LILY CARTHEW (3 Dec. 1888-8 May 1971) was active as a dramatic teacher, director, and performer in Cleveland during the 1920s. Born Lily Pelonsky in Boston, Mass., she made her stage debut there at 16 and acted professionally for 7 years until her marriage in 1915 to a physician, Dr. Martin Heydemann.

HOFFMAN, FLARRA B.

HOFFMAN, FLARRA B. (1907-4 April 1994) played a key role in establishing a Cleveland congregation of the Church of God. Born in Snowden, West Virginia, she moved to Cleveland in 1943. She and her husband Charles held prayer meetings in their home until their growing congregation secured the old Grace Episcopal Church building on Bolivar Street downtown, and a minister, the Rev. J.A.

HUDSON, JEAN ROBERTA

HUDSON, JEAN ROBERTA (6 Dec. 1919-2 July 1992), educator and expert on Cleveland history, was born in Philadelphia, the only child of J. Jones and Mary Porter Hudson. After graduation from CLEVELAND HEIGHTS High School in 1938, she attended the College of Wooster, receiving a B.A. degree in sociology in 1942. She obtained an M.A.

HUGHES, ADELLA PRENTISS

HUGHES, ADELLA PRENTISS  (29 Nov. 1869-23 Aug.

HULL, JESSIE (JESSE) REDDING

HULL, JESSIE (JESSE) REDDING (27 July 1932-20 Dec. 1992), author and speech therapist, wrote and published books for CHILDREN AND YOUTH and learning-disabled adults, as well as poetry.

HUMILITY OF MARY SISTERS

The HUMILITY OF MARY SISTERS have pursued an apostolate of teaching, health care and community service in Cleveland since 1864. Sisters from the order have served throughout the country and in El Salvador. The Roman Catholic religious order was founded in 1854 by the Reverend John J. Begel in Dommartin, France.

INGHAM, MARY BIGELOW (JANES)

INGHAM, MARY BIGELOW (JANES) (10 Mar. 1832-17 Nov. 1923), dedicated to teaching, missionary work, and temperance reform, was born in Mansfield, Ohio to Methodist minister John Janes and Hannah Brown. She was educated at Norwalk Seminary, Baldwin Institute, and Western Reserve Seminary.

INMAN, AMIE G. STEERE

INMAN, AMIE G.

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S YEAR, GREATER CLEVELAND CONGRESS

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S YEAR, GREATER CLEVELAND CONGRESS, held 25-27 Oct. 1975 at the PUBLIC AUDITORIUM, attracted 45,000-50,000 people. The congress was organized in response to the U.N. General Assembly proclamation designating 1975 as Intl.

IOSUE, MADELINE A. DESANTIS

IOSUE, MADELINE A. DESANTIS (10 Sep. 1926 - 14 Feb. 1999) became president of the C. DeSantis Paint Manufacturing Co. after joining the family company as a secretary in 1946. Iosue was born in Cleveland to Augusta (Cimoroni) and Columbo DeSantis, who founded the C. DeSantis Paint Manufacturing Co. Iosue graduated from Shaker Heights High School.

JANICKI, HAZEL

JANICKI, HAZEL (19 Feb. 1918-1 Jan. 1976), artist, was born in London to American parents, Joseph and Madeline Faulkner Janicki. She was raised in Paris until the family moved to Cleveland in 1929. Janicki enrolled in Cleveland School of Art in 1937, then worked for CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY making posters and displays.

JOHNSON, REV. CLARA LUCIL

JOHNSON, REV. CLARA LUCIL (14 March 1900-20 Oct. 1993) was one of the first African American female ministers in Cleveland and the founder of Highlight FBH "Fire Baptized Holiness" Church in MAPLE HEIGHTS which was established during the late 1950s.

JOSEPH, HELEN HAIMAN

JOSEPH, HELEN HAIMAN (28 Aug. 1888-15 Aug. 1978) was acknowledged as the "grandmother of American puppetry" because of her practical and scholarly knowledge of marionettes. Born in Atlanta, Ga., she came to Cleveland with her family at the age of 7 and graduated from CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL.

JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CLEVELAND, INC.

The JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CLEVELAND, INC. was founded on September 6, 1912 by a group of clubwomen meeting at the home of Mrs. Amasa Stone Mather. Relatively unchanged since 1912, the purpose of the league is threefold: 1) to promote voluntarism, 2) to develop the potential of women and 3) improve the community through effective volunteer activities and leadership.

KEELER, HARRIET LOUISE

KEELER, HARRIET LOUISE (ca. 1846-12 Feb. 1921) capped a career of more than 4 decades in the CLEVELAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS with a brief term as the city's first woman superintendent of schools. A native of South Kortright, N.Y., she entered the Cleveland School System following her graduation from Oberlin College in 1870.

KELLY, GRACE VERONICA

KELLY, GRACE VERONICA (31 Jan. 1877-10 Jan. 1950) parlayed her experience as a painter to achieve a second career as art critic for the Cleveland PLAIN DEALER. The daughter of Irish immigrants, Thomas and Mary Hart Kelly, she was born in Cleveland and received her first art lessons at St. Joseph's Convent on Starkweather Ave.

KOVELL, MARGARET N.

KOVELL, MARGARET N. (1893-3 Oct. 1992), composer and poet, founded the Lakewood Four Arts Society (1950s), an acting group. Her original works include an operetta, Tonight is the Night, presented in the Lakewood Civic Auditorium (1960s). Kovell was born in Austria-Hungary and came to Cleveland in 1905. Interested in music as a child, she studied voice before her marriage to Frank Kovell.

LADIES TRACT SOCIETY

The LADIES TRACT SOCIETY (est. 30 Oct. 1830) was the local branch of the American Tract Society, organized in New York in 1825 to distribute Christian leaflets and pamphlets, or "tracts." REBECCA ROUSE, an agent of the national organization, created the Cleveland society.

LAUREL SCHOOL

LAUREL SCHOOL is an independent day school for girls, kindergarten through grade twelve, with a coeducational early childhood center. A private school for girls, Laurel School was established by Jennie Warren Prentiss with an enrollment of seven students in 1896. Originally known as Miss Prentiss' School, it was located in her home at 95 Streator Avenue (East 100th Street).

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS (LWV) OF CLEVELAND

The LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS (LWV) OF CLEVELAND was formed in April 1920 by a group of suffragists, after the disbanding of the Woman's Suffrage Party of Greater Cleveland. Founders followed the example of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, which had organized the National League of Women Voters in February 1920.