Fanny Baker Ames [SEP] sex or gender
permanently to Boston in 1888 when Charles G. Ames became the head of the Church of Disciples.
In 1891 Fanny Baker Ames was appointed as the first female factory inspector in the state of Massachusetts, where she advocated such reforms as separate washrooms for men and women. She retained this position until 1895. 
Biography Later life.
In 1899 she was selected to be one of the original members of the board of trustees of Simmons College. 
By the 1890s she was a prominent member of the Anti-Imperialist League.
Fanny Baker Ames
Fanny Baker Ames (14 June 1840 – 21 August 1931), born Julia Frances Baker to Increase Baker and Julia Canfield in Canandaigua, New York, was a philanthropist and women's rights activist.
Biography.
Biography Early life.
Ames attended Antioch College in 1857 for one term and began to teach school in Cincinnati until 1861, at which point she became a volunteer nurse in the Civil War.
Ames married Reverend Charles Gordon Ames, the Unitarian activist, on June 25, 1863.