Ida Lewis (lighthouse Keeper)
Idawalley Zorada Lewis (later Lewis-Wilson) (February 25, 1842-October 25, 1911) was an American lighthouse keeper noted for her heroism.
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“There are two great unknown forces to-day, electricity and woman, but men can reckon much better on electricity than they can on woman.”
—Josephine K. Henry, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 15, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“Then down came the lid—the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has not ended yet: a “war to end war.” But it merely ended art. It did not end war.”
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