Project Gutenberg 2025-10-09 Public domain in the USA. 239 Shoemaker, Henry W. (Henry Wharton) 1880 1958 Shoemaker, Henry Wharton 22016700 Some forgotten Pennsylvania heroines $aAltoona :$bTimes Tribune Co., $c1922. Charlene 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.) "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.) https://archive.org/details/someforgottenpen01shoe/page/n5/mode/2up 20210627143402shoemaker 1922 US en Women -- Biography Pennsylvania -- Biography F106 Text 45971 2025-11-30T10:19:43.410118 text/html 21493 2025-10-09T00:00:53 text/html 339850 2025-11-30T10:19:45.778089 application/epub+zip 338552 2025-11-30T10:19:44.245135 application/epub+zip 109785 2025-11-30T10:19:43.773091 application/epub+zip 269388 2025-11-30T10:19:47.034084 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 261360 2025-11-30T10:19:45.407118 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 37530 2025-11-30T10:19:43.293142 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17560 2025-10-09T00:00:53 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15605 2025-11-30T10:19:47.161075 application/rdf+xml 8296 2025-11-30T10:19:43.942127 image/jpeg 1827 2025-11-30T10:19:43.855120 image/jpeg 629909 2025-11-30T10:19:43.427149 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia