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Thursday, March 21, 2002

Can you identify the following women who were born in the Pittsburgh area?

1. Mary Cassatt.
2. Gertrude Stein.
3. Sara Soffel.
4. Marcia Davenport.
5. Mary Schenley.
6. Mary Roberts Rinehart.
7. Queen Aliquippa.
8. Rachel Carson.
9. Jane Swisshelm.
10. Anne X. Alpern.

Answers:

1. Local artist who became internationally known.

2. Novelist, poet, playwright.

3. First woman judge in Pennsylvania.

4. Novelist.

5. Donor of land for Pittsburgh's first park.

6. Novelist.

7. American Indian matriarch in Colonial times

8. Biologist, writer and environmentalist.

9. Champion of women's rights and an abolitionist.

10. First woman to become chief legal officer in a major city.