Many women acted as nurses for the wounded in WWI front lines. Most were not allowed to combat, but they could fill roles in other occupations such as the U.S. Army's Signal Corps. and as marine and naval yeomen.
Benjamin Franklin served in the Second Continental Congress and helped draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Benjamin also negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary war.
They wrote things for others
Because it was propbably a sad time for them to live