Nellie Showalter

Nellie Love Marshall was born in Brookfield, Missouri and raised in Donerail, Fayette County, Kentucky.

[2] In 1894 she played the more experienced Harriet Worrall in Brooklyn, in a match billed as the "ladies' championship"; on the occasion she was quoted as saying, "I was married at 16 and now am 23, that makes seven years' playing chess with the champion chess player of the United States.

"[3] The match was suspended when Showalter (who was winning) became ill, possibly in connection with early pregnancy.

[4] Showalter was a charter member of the Women's Chess Association of America when it formed in 1894.

Nellie Showalter fished, hunted, and drove when such activities were considered remarkable for a woman.