Finding Aids about Womens History

Perhaps the best local newspaper reporter at the turn of the century wrote for the Bulletin and published a column as simply “Mme. Anne...

Berneice Emma “Bea” Baas began a career at State Farm Insurance in 1952 as a stock clerk in the warehouse on Empire St. She moved to th...

Women’s Clubs began to form in 1890 when the General Federation of Women’s Clubs organized. Illinois Federation of Women’s Clubs was or...

Marguerite E. (Dobson) Clarke (1916-2007) was a lifelong resident of Bloomington. She received a degree from Illinois Wesleyan Universi...

Social services in Bloomington Normal were administered by volunteers, mostly women, who organized the earliest social services: Bloomi...

Ada was born in Hudson, Illinois, to George and Josie Lentz on July 19, 1898. She married Stephen Eugene (Gene) Finley on September 8, ...

Mildred Scholl Gathman (1918-2001) was born in rural Arrowsmith and lived there much of her life. She graduated Illinois State Normal ...

Rachel Hodge Fuller (1904 – 1987) was the daughter of E.N. and Naomia Correa Hodge. Rachel Hodge Fuller lived in Bloomington, Illinois ...

Betty Marshall Kinser was born on November 15, 1941 in Bloomington, IN. In her youth she was known to be strong-willed and athletic. Sh...

Annie May Christian (she went by May for most of her life) was born in Decatur, Illinois, in 1866 to Matthew and Elizabeth (Mitchell) C...

Born in Peoria, Mary Ellen Selk (1921-2023) graduated El Paso High in 1939, attended Illinois Wesleyan University, and earned both BA (...