March is Women's History Month

Notable Henrietta Women Who Achieved Firsts:

Reverend Antoinette Brown Blackwell
First ordained woman minister in the United States, in 1853

Doctor Sarah Perry
First known woman doctor from Henrietta, graduating from the Buffalo Medical School in 1882

Lillian Roberts
First woman to hold a Monroe County elective office, elected as County Purchasing Agent in 1926

Ruth VanOstrand
First woman elected to the Rush-Henrietta School Board in 1957; first recipient of the ABB Society Woman of the Year Award

Minerva Campbell
First president of the first Henrietta Public Library Board of Trustees in 1958

Trudy McNall
First local woman to have her own cooking show on television in the 1960s

Eleanor Crane Kalsbeck
Wrote the first comprehensive history of the town of Henrietta, published in 1977

Marilyn McGill
First woman elected to serve on the Town Board, in 1986