In honor of Women’s History Month we will have fun femme facts (say that three times fast)  for the month and then I’m going to tie them in with scholarships. Aren’t I clever?

1587 - Virginia Dare is the first person born in America to English parents.

1766 - Mary Katherine Goddard and her mom published the Providence Gazette newspaper making her the first woman publisher in America.

1869 - Arabella Mansfield is granted permission to practice law in Iowa - making her the first woman to do so.

1872 - Victoria Claflin Woodhull becomes the first woman presidential candidate in the US, nominated by the National Radical Reformers.

1885 - Sarah E. Goode is the first African-American woman to receive a patent, for a bed that folded up into a cabinet.

Source: infoplease.com

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