- 1733 (January 14) Marie-Therese Bourgeois Chouteau born
- 1769 (August 28) Rose Philippine Duchesne born
- 1783 (January 17) Olive Boone born
- 1809 Hannah Cole arrives in Missouri
- 1814 (August 14) Marie-Therese Bourgeois Chouteau died
- 1815 (August 12) Adeline Weston Couzins born
- 1816 Hannah Cole starts her ferrying business
- 1836 Celia born
- 1838 Louisa Volker born
- 1842 Phoebe Couzins born
- 1843 Hannah Cole died
- 1846 (November 25) Carrie Nation born
- 1850 Kate Chopin born
- 1850 Celia purchased by Robert Newsom
- 1852 Rose Philippine Duchesne died
- 1855 (December) Celia dies for killing Robert Newsom
- 1856 Calamity Jane born near Princeton
- 1858 Olive Boone died
- 1863 Adeline Couzins wounded at Vicksburg
- 1867 Virginia Minor launches Women Suffrage Association of Missouri
- 1867 (February 7) Laura Ingalls Wilder born
- 1867 (July 18) Margaret “Molly” Brown born, Hannibal
- 1871 Phoebe Couzins graduates from Washington University Law School
- 1872 Ella Ewing born, Lewis County
- 1873 Susan Blow starts the Nation’s first Kindergarten in St. Louis
- 1873 Arizona “Ma” Barker born, Ash Grove
- 1875 (April) Susan B. Anthony visits Springfield on her Social Purity lecture tour
- 1877 Irma Rombauer born, St. Louis
- 1878 (December 18) Edna Gellhorn born, St. Louis
- 1882 Clara (Lewis) Stover born
- 1886 Zoe Akins born
- 1888 (October 1) Special act of Congress grants Adeline Couzins a pension
- 1891 Lela Rogers born
- 1892 (May 9) Adeline Couzins dies
- 1892 Ella Ewing’s first exhibition
- 1895 Louisa Volker graduates from the Women’s Medical College, St. Louis (58 years old)
- 1899 Kate Chopin publishes The Awakening
- 1903 Calamity Jane dies
- 1904 Kate Chopin dies
- 1905 Louisa Volker dies
- 1906 (June) Josephine Baker born, St. Louis
- 1909 Fannie Hurst graduates from Washington University, St. Louis
- 1911 (July 16) Ginger Rogers born, Independence
- 1911 (July 1) Lucile Bluford born
- 1911 Clara Lewis marries Russell Stover
- 1913 Pearl Curran first channels Patience Worth
- 1913 Phoebe Couzins dies
- 1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade, Washington DC
- 1913 Ella Ewing dies, Scotland County
- 1916 Susan Blow dies
- 1916 Walkless-Talkless Parade
- 1931 Irma Rombauer publishes The Joy of Cooking
- 1931 (June) Amelia Earhart visits Springfield
- 1932 (October 26) Margaret “Molly” Brown died
- 1933 (April) Bonnie Parker escapes from Joplin hideout
- 1935 (January 16) Arizona “Ma” Barker died
- 1937 Pearl Curran died
- 1950 Mary Price Wells denied admission to Missouri State University
- 1953 How to Marry a Millionaire produced (based on Zoe Akins‘ play – starring Betty Grable)
- 1957 (February 10) Laura Ingalls Wilder died, Mansfield
- 1958 Zoe Akins died
- 1962 Irma Rombauer died, St. Louis
- 1968 Fannie Hurst died
- 1970 Edna Gellhorn died
- 1974 Jane Ace died
- 1975 Clara Stover died
- 1977 Lela Rogers died
- 1995 (April 25) Ginger Rogers died
- 2003 (June 13) Lucile Bluford died
- 2010 Mary Price Wells given honorary degree from Missouri State University
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Missouri Women 
I have 2 names to add as suggestions on Women’s History in Missouri and the Hall of Fame for Famous Missourians:
Marie Turner Harvey was a well known educator in the early part of the 20th Century. Her work is known to have inspired John Dewey, founder of our American Educational System. A book (New Schools from Old) was written about Mrs. Harvey by Evelyn Dewey (John Dewey’s daughter) in 1919. This work is still in print. Mrs. Harvey’s work was principally at the Porter School in Adair County. People traveled from across the country and around the world to learn about her teaching practices.
Doris Akers was a well known gospel singer and composer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Akers Ms. Akers was born in Brookfield and grew up in Kirksville.
I am dismayed that so few of those honored in the Hall of Famous Missourians are women (only 7). Would you please work to correct this omission? All those little girls through older women (and young boys through older women) need to see the noteworthy women in our history who have accomplished so much. Thanks…
There is a small edit that needs to happen in the above entry which I wrote earlier today. For the last paragraph, it should read …”(and young boys through older men)”…
To exclude examples of famous women tells children through adults that there is nothing that women can do that is of importance (in the State of Missouri). That says indirectly, that what women do does not matter. This is especially damaging to children (and most specifically to young girls) whose minds are being shaped by what they see and experience as sanctioned in the adult world. Everyone, regardless of the age, needs to see that famous women are important, essential, and recognized.
We just have some catching up to do.
Well put. You outline many of the reasons why this blog was started. When kids learn about history in school, they learn that women were pretty much non-existent. I don’t have the money to change textbooks, but I can offer a place for teachers and students to learn about females in history.