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Join us for the Hoosier Women at Work edit-a-thon with Indiana Historical Bureau Thursday, November 2nd at the Indiana State Library!

What: Hoosier Women at Work Edit-a-thon

When: Thursday, November 2nd from 11 am–3 pm

Where: Indiana State Library, 4th Floor, 315 W. Ohio Street Indianapolis, IN

Suggested Focus: significant Hoosier women, Indiana women's organizations, Indiana history

What to bring: You preferred editing device (personal computer, tablet) and necessary charging cables.

More information: See the IUPUI project page here: https://cds.ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship/wikipedia

Parking: There is metered parking available on Ohio St. and Senate Ave. There are several downtown garages in walking distance.

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Please sign up on Eventbrite.

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Here are a few suggested articles to create or improve during this edit-a-thon, but you are welcome to work on anything you like.
Please note: This is a crowdsourced list. You can help us by adding to it!

Article Sources Notes
Roberta West Nicholson [1][2][3] [4] [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Notable legislator and civic leader.
Amelia R. Keller [13][14] [15][16][17][18][19][20] [21] Notable physician and suffragist.
Kathy Sarris [22][23] [24][25][26][27][28][29] LGBTQ+ activist
Marjorie Kitselman [30][31][32][33][34][35] Aviator, reported to be the youngest pilot in the state in 1932.
Helene Knabe Brea is editing [36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43] Notable physician, scientist, health officer (cold case, murdered with one of her medical instruments in 1911).
Draft:Elizabeth Fletcher Allen. Olivia is working on creating this article! [44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53] Attorney, civil rights activist, first Black woman to be an attorney in Indiana.
Sarah Parke Morrison [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] First woman to be a student & then a professor at Indiana University.
Eleanor P. Barker [60] [61] [62] Attorney, suffragist, head of Indiana's Congressional Union/Woman’s Party.
Draft:Adele Storck this is being edited slowly [63] [64] [65] First woman admitted to the Indianapolis Bar; created a women-owned law firm.
Jessie Levy [66] [67] [68] [69] [70] One of the attorneys that defended the Dillinger Gang.
Hannah Graham (physician) - Jill building in sandbox [71] [72][73] Physician, suffragist, leader of the Equal Suffrage Association in Indiana.
Lucinda Burbank Morton [74] [75] [76] [77] Abolitionist, established the U.S. Sanitary Commission in Indiana.
Blanche McNeeley Wean [78] [79] [80] [81] First woman to enroll in the IU School of Business.
Eugenie Nicholson [82] [83] [84] [85] [86] [87][88][89] Suffragist; vice president of the Woman’s Franchise League of Indiana.
Edna Stillwell [90] [91] [92] [93] [94] [95] [96] [97] [98] Comedian and screenwriter. Key writer for Red Skelton.
Sarah Stockton [99][100][101] Physician at Central State Hospital; suffragist.
Mary Ellen Cable [102] [103] [104] [105] [106] IPS teacher and principal, educator, civic leader, NAACP leader. Established the first "fresh air" classroom for Black students in Indianapolis.
Kate Debs [107] [108] [109] [110][111] [112] Socialist thinker, suffragist in Terre Haute.
Draft:Sarah Wolf Goodman [113][114] [115] [116] [117][118] Civic leader, Jewish community leader, philanthropist. First woman to serve as president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis.
Mary Donovan Hapgood [119][120] [121] [122][123] OA version Political leader, labor leader, founder of Indiana Civil Liberties Union.
Alfaretta Hart - Lindsey B Editing [124][125][126] [127] Social reformer, first policewoman of Muncie, opposed prohibition.
Madge Rutherford Minton [128][129][130][131][132][133][134][135] Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), biologist and herpetologist. Some of her biography is recounted on Sherman A. Minton.
Mary Rigg - editing, Curious-Researcher219 [136] [137] [138] [139] Social worker for immigrant neighborhoods, namesake for Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center.
Laurel C. Thayer [140][141] [142] [143] Suffragist, reformer, probation officer.
Maria Carmen Velasquez [144][145][146][147][148] Advocate for migrant workers; contributed to the founding of AMOS, subject of a mural in Marion, Indiana.
Carolyn Barnes [149][150][151][152][153][154][155] AKA Carrie Barnes Ross. First president of Branch No. 7, Equal Suffrage Association, Indy's Black ESA Branch.
Rachel Peden [156]not reliable[157][158][159][160][161][162][163][164] Author from rural Indiana.
Hannah Toliver [165][166][167][168][169] Free Black woman who aided escaping enslaved people.
Evangeline Harris [170][171][172] [173][174] [175] Educator, author, and vocalist--created primary reader for Black children.
Roselyn Richardson [176][177][178][179][180][181] Equal rights activist, worked to desegregate IPS and founded the Friends of Indianapolis Urban League.
Sarah M. Wilmer [182][183] [184] [185] [186] Entertainer and WWI nurse.
Indiana Crossdresser Society, IXE [187][188] [189] Social and activist organization for transgender women and gender non-conforming people.
Marie Stuart Edwards [190][191][192] [193] [194] [195] [196] [197] [198] Suffragist and social reformer. President of the Woman’s Franchise League of Indiana.
Mindwell Crampton Wilson [199] [200] [201][202] Journalist, columnist, newspaper owner.
Gertrude Amelia Mahorney [203] [204] [205] first Black Butler grad, translator, and educator
Massaw or Mas-saw [206] [207] [208] [209] [210] Potawatomi leader
Susannah Clark [211] [212] [213] [214] Civil War nurse
Ella Kehrer [215][216][217] humanitarian; founder of hospital
Grace Urbahns finished editing [218] [219] [220] [221] Treasurer of the State of Indiana 1926-1931; Republican Party organizer
Emma Christy Baker [222][223] first woman Indianapolis police officer; juvenile court officer
Mae Dickinson [224][225][226] state legislator; legislation to protect children
Mary Jancosek Bercik [227][228] Mayor of Whiting; first Indiana women to be mayor
Z. Mae Jimison [229][230][231][232][233] [234] Judge; attorney; first Black woman to win major party primary (Indianapolis mayoral race)
Sara Messing Stern-Sheri R. [235] [236] [237] [238] Suffragist; National Council of Jewish Women
Phyllis Fleming [239][240][241] Physicist, physics educator
Ada Harris [242] Civic leader, educator, and entrepreneur
Maddie Coney [243] Civic leader, educator, and municipal beautification leader; related image- [244]
Frances Berry Coston [245] Civic leader, journalist for the Indianapolis News
Jane Dabney Shackelford [246][247] Author, educator; wikidata page
Martha Dicks Stevens [248][249] civil engineer, Purdue's 'first' female engineer
Mary Ellen Bussel Westerfield [250][251] spiritualist, founder of Camp Chesterfield
Hello Girls

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Indiana's WWI switchboard operators includes: Helen Bixby, Bertha A. Carrel, Martha L. Carrel, Elizabeth Marion Shovar

To Improve

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Article Sources Notes
Helen Corey [256], [257] [258][259][260] Syrian-American cookbook author, political and civic leader; article needs photo of Corey. Create an infobox.
Esther Griffin White [261][262] writer, suffragist; needs photo; create an infobox; add a page description.
Flossie Bailey [263] civil rights and anti-lynching activist; needs photo. Strong article, widely covered person ... look for additional sources.
Vivian Carter [264] record producer and DJ; needs photo
Eliza George [265] Civil War nurse; needs photo
Mary Bidwell Breed [266] IU Dean of women and chemistry professor; needs photo
Marie Goth [267][268][269] Brown County artist, portraitist; needs photo and images of paintings
Ada Walter Shulz [270][271] Brown County artist; needs photo and images of paintings
Mary Hamilton Swindler [272][273] archaeologist, art scholar; page needs more on time in Indiana
Merze Tate [274][275] Scholar of diplomacy, professor; page needs more on time in Indiana
Emma Barrett Molloy [276] women's rights and temperance leader, journalist; needs image
Polly Strong [277][278] enslaved woman successfully sued for freedom; add historical marker. Strong article. Could add in clipping from the legal decision. See 1 or 2.
Mary Bateman Clark [279][280][281][282][283] indentured woman who successfully sued for freedom; add historical marker
Mary Holloway Wilhite [284][285] physician, suffragists; add historical marker and photo of. Strong article.
Earline S. Rogers [286][287][288][289][290] Indiana State Senator; Indiana State Representative; member of Indiana Black Legislative Caucus. Stub. Expand by describing her accomplishments.
Emily Kimbrough [291][292] Best-selling novelist, fashion writer, magazine editor. Add citation for details about her death.
Phyllis Pond [293][294][295][296] Indiana State Representative; education legislation. Expand by describing her accomplishments.
Bertita Carla Camille Leonarz de Harding [297][298][299] Author. Entry uses only one source. Look for others and supplement as needed.
Mary F. Thomas [300][301][302][303] Physician, early suffrage leader. Add image. Add information about historical marker.
Linton, Indiana Lindsey B. [304][305] Include the Linton Telephone Operators Strike in the history section.
Wilma Gibbs Moore [306][307] Historian, empowering educator and mentor, archivist, Black history leader
Mari Evans [308] poet, dramaturg, musician, Black Arts Movement; needs photo

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Article Sources Notes
Sadie Hider [309] Indianapolis community leader of Syrian origin
Julia David [310] Indianapolis community leader of Syrian origin
Ann Zarick [311][312] Indianapolis community leader of Syrian origin
Harriet Noble (suffragist) [313] Suffragist. Treasurer for the Women's School League; field secretary for the Women's Franchise League of Indiana.

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