Lucretia Marshbanks
Lucretia Marshbanks was one of the first black women to venture to the Black Hills of South Dakota. She was a cook, boarding house manager, hotel owner, and ranch owner.
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Elizabeth Dillon
British diarist
Margaret Brent
Margaret Brent was one of the earliest residents of Westmoreland County, Virginia, where she owned a sizable estate named Peace plantation and helped to establish Virginia’s first Roman Catholic community.
Alessandra Alberta Pucci
Alessandra Pucci was founder and chief executive of Australia’s first biotechnology company Australian Monoclonal Development (AMD).
Maria Pace Barker
At her Boston restaurant Nicole’s, she would serve a myriad of influential figures, including the President of Japan in 1989 and the Archbishop of Boston.
Josephine McCluskey
Boston dressmaker
Verena Holmes
Practical mechanical engineer, patent holder and entrepreneur.
Kathleen Cook
Mechanical engineer, entrepreneur and Women’s Engineering Society President.
Estella Crosby
Beautician and community activist who formed the Boston unit of the Housewives League with Geneva Arrington and E. Alice Taylor.
Geneva Arrington
Co-founder of the Boston unit of the Housewives League