Fannie R. Gaston was a woman of science. And math. And religion. And art. And suffrage. And temperance. And words. And teaching. She was, well, a lot! Fannie was a complex woman full of contradictions but also proof that none of us are perfectly wrapped packages.
Author: Sean E. Andres
Sean E. Andres is a marketer, writer, and former educator. He has a B.S. in Secondary English/Language Arts Education with a focus on women writers during the Civil War and M.S. in Marketing with a focus on diversity marketing from applied feminist and race theory. He co-founded Queens of Queen City with Chelsie J. Hoskins in 2017. Sean currently serves on the boards for Urbanist Media and Cincinnati Observatory. He loves to be outdoors among the trees and woodland critters when he’s not glued to the computer – researching, writing, and working.
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Queens of Queen City 