.My analysis offers a more comprehensive standpoint on women's expertises of mothering as well as a deeper understanding of just how girls without natural children bring about the country as well as its future.' Mommies of all children' One such girl was Katharine Bement Davis, the subject matter of my present research.Born in Buffalo, The Big Apple, in 1860, Davis was a member of a production of "brand-new ladies" who sought higher education, built expert jobs and fought for political legal rights.