Bees and Women
Mrs. Susan Hall Root By: Nina Bagley Susan Hall was born in 1841 in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. Her parents were Daniel and Mary Hall,…
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Miss Lillian Love By: Nina Bagley Miss Lillian Love was born into a Quaker family in Marion, Indiana on October 24, 1880. Her family…
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Mrs. Mahala Chaddock By: Nina Bagley Mrs. Mahala Blanch Pettay Chaddock was born near the Mississinewa branch of Wabash Grant County, Indiana, December 15,…
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Susan E. Williams By: Nina Bagey In 1905, the first annual Harrisburg, Pennsylvania beekeeping convention was held on December 6th and 7th. Among the…
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The Acklin Women By: Nina Bagley Breezing through my 1900s Gleanings in Bee Culture Magazines, I found a beekeeping woman and her daughter who…
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Iona Fowls By: Nina Bagley Iona Fowls was born on September 7, 1882 in Oberlin, Ohio. She had an older sister Violet and a…
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Alwilda Jane Colwell Nina Bagley When I started my beekeeping journey years ago, I began researching women and beekeeping during the 1800’s not knowing…
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Sara Jane Wellman Axtell Nina Bagley Mrs. Sara Jane Wellman Axtell was born December 19, 1839 in Monmouth County, Illinois, which was founded in…
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The Bees at the Ohio Statehouse
Nina Bagley The Ohio Statehouse bees have a nice ornate iron fence around them. The hives sit high on the hill, looking at the…
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Lucinda Harrison of Peoria, IL Nina Bagley Mrs. Lucinda Harrison of Peoria, IL followed in Mrs. Tupper’s footsteps (to read about Mrs. Tupper, see…
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Elizabeth Eliza Douglas Nina Bagley Elizabeth “Lizzie” Eliza Douglas was born in Gorham Cumberland, Maine, in September 1844. Lizzie’s father, Freedom Douglas, and mother,…
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Nina Bagley Mrs. Ellen S. Tupper was a complex and cunning woman beekeeper in the 1800’s that all beekeepers should know. She was born…
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Frank Benton on “A Beirut and Syrian Bee Convention May 1885”
Nina Bagley Twenty years ago, I became a beekeeper and my mentor passed his beekeeping books on to me when he moved. I have…
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