Part of the American History & Genealogy Project

Pioneers American Women

One of the most powerful influences exercised by the women pioneers was the influence for religion. Every pioneer woman was transfused with a deep, glowing, unwavering religious faith, and through all the terrible trials of those earliest days, as well as through those of the generations which followed, their faith never wavered, and at all times proved a bulwark of strength in seasons of trouble.

• Ann Hennis Bailey

• Elizabeth Bartholomew ~ Hunterdon County, New Jersey

• Mary Bledsoe ~ Kentucky

• Rebecca Bryant Boone

• Molly Brandt

• Margaret Brent ~ Maryland

• Jane Gellespie Brown ~ Tennessee

• Mary Dunlevy ~ New York City

• Rebecca J. Gilleland Fisher ~ Texas

• Rebecca Wells Heald

• Anne Hutchinson ~ Boston, Massachusetts

• Elizabeth Jarboe Kenton ~ Kentucky & Ohio

• Mary McMillan ~ Michigan

• Mary Moore

• Charlotte Reeves Robertson ~ Tennessee

• Rebecca Rouse ~  Ohio

• Catherine Sherrill Sevier ~ Tennessee

• Susanna Hart Shelby

• Abigail Hunt Snelling

• Ruth Sevier Sparks ~ Kentucky

• Sarah Thorpe ~ Ohio

• Sarah Whiter Wilson

The follow biographies are very short, but that person you are looking for might just be there so they were included.

• Mrs. Anderson

• Mary Hopkins Cabell Breckenridge

• Sarah Bryan

• Eliza Bull

• Sylvia Chapin

• Charlotte Clark

• Ruhama Greene

• Anna Innis

• Mary Yellott Johnston

• Henrietta Hunt Morgan

• Mrs. Moseley

• Sarah Shelby

• Harriet L. Noble

• Betty O'Flanagan

• Margaret Wickliffe Preston

• Sarah Richardson

• Mary Ann Rumsey

• Mrs. Hector Scott

• Elizabeth Tappen

• Keturah Leitch Taylor

• Susan Lucy Barry Taylor

Women of America

Source: The Part Taken by Women in American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.