Abstract:
Ten women, out of the many influential females in the state, are highlighted for their distinguished service to North Carolina. The ten include: Dolly Madison, Flora MacDonald, Cornelia Spencer, Francis Fisher Tiernan, Susan Dimock, Elizabeth Ann Macrae, Katherine Shipp, Fannie E. S. Heck, Delia Dixon-Carroll. These women were selected because of affiliation with advances in education, literature, medicine, politics, warfare from the colonial period to the 1940s.