scholar and peace activist; wrote a plan to end World War I peacefully called Continuous Mediation Without Armistice in 1914, plan became known as the Wisconsin Plan and was adopted by the International Congress of Women in 1915.

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[Source: Brown, Victoria. Uncommon Lives of Common Women: The Missing Half of Wisconsin History. Madison: Wisconsin Feminists Project Fund, 1975]