1935 – Caroline Julia Bartlett Crane died at 76. She was a Unitarian minister and activist for public kindergartens and urban sanitation. Born in Hudson, Wisconsin, she decided to become a minister in a time when ministry was considered an exclusively male profession. She was ordained in 1887 as a colleague of Mary Safford.

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