Universalist, Unitarian,

& Unitarian Universalist Milestones

Elizabeth Blackwell (February 3, 1821, Bristol, England – May 31, 1910, Sussex, England), Teacher, Doctor. Upon graduation from Geneva College in NY on January 23, 1849, she became the first woman to complete studies at a medical school and receive the M.D. degree.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson, II (February 5, 1900, Los Angeles, CA – July 14, 1965, London, England), Politician. Four time delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, Governor of Illinois 1949-53, candidate for President of the United States in 1952 and 1956, and a U.S. Representative to the United Nations from 1961-65.

Pauline Agassiz Shaw (February 6, 1841, – February 10, 1917), Social reformer who in 1881 founded America’s first trade school, the North Bennet Street Industrial School, to train newly arrived Italian and Jewish people in skilled trades. She also gave financial support to the woman suffrage movement and is responsible for the institutionalization of kindergartens in Boston Public Schools.

Lydia Estes Pinkham (February 9, 1819, Lynn, MA – May 17, 1883), Social Activist, Businesswoman. She was a member of the Female Anti-Slavery society and a supporter of Temperance. In 1875 she began marketing her Vegetable Compound, which she saw eventually gross about $300,000 a year.

Peter Cooper (February 12, 1791, New York City [NYC], NY- April 4, 1883, NYC, NY), ‘Inventor of Jello’, Manufacturer, philanthropist. He was a Greenback candidate for President of the United States in 1876, created the first U.S. steam locomotive, founded the Cooper Union, and was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.

Sallie Holley (February 17, 1818, Canandaigua, NY – January 12, 1893, NYC, NY), Teacher, Social Reformer. She attended Oberlin College on a scholarship in 1847. After college, she worked for the American Anti-Slavery Society, lectured regularly, and wrote for William L. Garrison’s ‘The Liberator’.

Carroll Leander Coburn (February 23, 1907, E. Montpelier, VT – ), Farmer, Legislator. He was a member of the Vermont state house of representatives from 1939-41, a member of Vermont state senate from Washington County from 1943-47, and served as President Pro Tempore 1947-1949.

Laura E. Howe Richards (February 27, 1850, Boston, MA – January 14, 1943), Poet, Author, Teacher. Her first book ‘Five Little Mice in a Mouse Trap’ was published in 1880; another, “Captain January”, was published in the 1890’s. She founded the Women’s Philanthropic Union, serving as its president until 1921. In 1917, she and her sister, Maude Howe Elliott, won the Pulitzer Prize for “Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910”, a biography of their mother.

Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901, Portland, OR – August 19, 1994, Big Sur, CA), Scientist, two-time Nobel Prize winner, peace-activist. In 1939 he published the results of over ten years of research in “The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals”. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Merit in 1948 for his scientific research, was a member of Einstein’s Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, supported many peace organizations, and, as an individual, spoke out against war and its nuclear nature.

Who Am I?

I was born in 1820 in Adams, MA, and was instrumental in getting the 19th Amendment passed. I am _________________ .

In 1859, my book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published.
My name is _________________ .