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100 1 _aShoemaker, Henry W.
_q(Henry Wharton),
_d1880-1958
245 1 0 _aSome forgotten Pennsylvania heroines
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-10-09
508 _aCharlene Taylor, Paul Fatula and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"Some forgotten Pennsylvania heroines by Henry W. Shoemaker" is a historical address and collection of brief biographical sketches written in the early 20th century. It challenges status-based notions of fame and spotlights overlooked Pennsylvania women from frontier, Revolutionary, and Civil War contexts, emphasizing courage, service, and moral character. The address opens by questioning familiar icons and then recounts vivid lives of lesser-known figures: Mary Jemison, the Seneca-adopted “White Woman of the Genesee”; Regina Hartman, recognized after captivity by a hymn at Carlisle; and “Molly Pitcher,” who manned a cannon at Monmouth and endured hardship afterward. It adds brisk vignettes of frontier bravery and sacrifice—Peggy Marteeny’s rescue under Indian pursuit, Sabina Wolfe’s rise from country girl to social leader, Barbara Frietchie’s defiant flag, Frances Slocum’s life among Native Americans, Elizabeth Zane’s frontier heroism, and Jennie Wade’s death at Gettysburg. The narrative links Pennsylvania roots to national figures like Nancy Hanks and tells the tragic tale of Mary Wolford, namesake of Young Woman’s Creek. It closes with a call to memorialize these women as exemplars of modesty, grit, and public spirit, noting contemporaries such as Jane Addams who carry their legacy forward. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cAltoona: Times Tribune Co., 1922
653 _aWomen -- Biography
653 _aPennsylvania -- Biography
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/someforgottenpen01shoe/page/n5/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77017
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