WV Golden Horseshoe Women in History questions and answers.
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West Virginia Golden Horseshoe
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West Virginia Golden Horseshoe
Pearl S. Buck
This West Virginia native formally received the Nobel prize for literature from King Gustaf of Sweden on December 10, 1938.
Virginia Mae Brown
This Putnam County native was the first woman to serve on the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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WV Golden Horseshoe Women
in History questions and
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Pearl S. Buck - answer This West Virginia native formally received
the Nobel prize for literature from King Gustaf of Sweden on
December 10, 1938.
Virginia Mae Brown - answer This Putnam County native was the
first woman to serve on the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Until recent decades, women in West Virginia were denied access to
education beyond the primary school level. - answer According to
federal census statistics, West Virginia women historically have
participated in the labor force at lower rates than women
nationwide. In 1900, for example, only 10.6 percent of women age
16 and older were employed, compared to 20.6 percent nationwide.
All of the following are reasons for the lower employment rate of
women in West Virginia, EXCEPT:
Florence Blanchfield - answer The hospital at Fort Campbell,
Kentucky, is named for this Shepherdstown native, the first woman
to receive a regular Army commission.
Miners - answer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones helped to organize what
group of workers into a union?
Mildred Mitchell-Bateman - answer In 1962, she became the first
African-American woman to be named to a high-ranking office in
West Virginia state government.
, Mary Lee Epling - answer This McDowell County native became the
wife of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in 1939.
Ruby Bradley - answer This Spencer native, one of the most
decorated female veterans in American history, died on May 28,
2002, and was buried in Arlington Cemetery.
Natalie Tennant - answer This woman became WVU's first woman
mountaineer mascot in 1990.
Louise McNeill Pease - answer This woman became poet laureate of
West Virginia in 1978.
Harriet B. Jones - answer This person was the first licensed woman
physician in West Virginia.
Anna Johnson Gates - answer In 1922, this Kanawha Countian
became the first woman elected to the West Virginia Legislature.
Wheeling - answer The Madonna of the Trails monument, unveiled in
this community on July 7, 1928, was the second of twelve
monuments erected to honor women pioneers of the westward
movement.
Ruth Ann Musick - answer This one-time teacher at Fairmont State
University, for whom its main campus library is named, founded the
West Virginia Folklore Journal in 1951.
Sallie Maxwell Bennett - answer A memorial window at Westminister
Abbey to members of the British Flying Services who died in World
War I was placed through the efforts of this resident of Weston
whose son was one of the airmen who died during the war.
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