Adele Von Ohl Parker

Buffalo Bill Center of the West
Because Ms. Von Ohl Parker was a  Buffalo Gal for Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, you can find historic photographs of her performing at this website.

• ​library.centerofthewest.org/cdm/search/searchterm/adele%20von%20ohl%20parker/order/nosort

Information about Adele Parker's ranch

• www.clevelandmetroparks.com/parks/learn/blogs/notes-from-the-field/2015/october-2015/parker-ranch-part-2
• www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/56568

Adele Parker as a social justice hero

• www.cleveland.com/ministerofculture/2017/07/finding_the_horsewoman_adele_p.html

Other Influential Women of  N.O.

Abbie Danforth, pastor First Universalist Church of Olmsted

• library.hds.harvard.edu/exhibits/featured-images/danforth-abbie-ellsworth
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women%27s_ordination_in_the_United_States​

Hannah Peake (wife of George, mother of Joseph)
​​www.womeninhistoryohio.com/mrs-george-hannah-peake.html​

Helen Briggs

• Pages 11 - 18 in this e-book by Dale Thomas (link below)
• A very informative article about the work of Dr. Crile (founder of the Cleveland Clinic) and his nursing volunteers, which included Helen Briggs, and how their work caring for the sick and injured in WWI transformed medicine
  • forms.gle/FyquTWc54wVvZJMZ9
• More about Dr. Crile and his nurses (including Helen Briggs)
  • artsci.case.edu/lakesideunit/americans-ambulance/lakeside-unit-personnel/​
  • youtu.be/rOJBf0gru1 

Cassie Salisbury
Pages 16 - 18 (link below)
​books.google.com/books?
id=UwNIDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=helen+briggs+lakeside+hospital+school&source=bl&ots=ZomiPT_LTZ&sig=ACfU3U0js5KSH07hF5WlgqtVkPmfvgUoWg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjWm_vm6JjiAhUCRa0KHQH4BAEQ6AEwAnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=helen%20briggs%20lakeside%20hospital%20school&f=false

Also, check out Scene 6 from Mr. Thomas's play "Voices in the Night" which introduces readers to Helen Briggs and Cassie Salisbury.
To view the play open the file below.

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Denise Dufala, a more recent N.O. woman of influence. Ms. Dafala was a newscaster and is now a children's book author.

• www.thechildrensbookreview.com/weblog/2018/09/an-interview-with-denise-dufala-journalist-turned-author.html

• www.news-herald.com/lifestyle/denise-dufala-s-new-career-as-child-s-advocate-and/article_b10a8bb4-1900-11e9-9db8-bb48875ab8e7.html
• http://lakewoodobserver.com/read/2019/01/08/denise-dufala-will-be-guest-at-annual-women-honoring-women