Anne Greaves
Yorkshirewoman who ran her own quarry and invented an artificial stone.
Yorkshirewoman who ran her own quarry and invented an artificial stone.
Ran her family business in ship chandlery and brass founding
British motorist, engineer and metallurgist
The founder of the UK’s first independent software house
Her four-page weekly newspaper, Paul Pry, later the Huntress, ran for twenty-five years and was described as a forerunner of the modern Washington gossip columns.
After her automobile designer died in 1913, she took over the family business
Ethel Hill Henderson (1896-1971) managed the kiln and helped manage business affairs at the Dorchester Pottery Works factory.
Ran Boston’s Reid Funeral Home for decades
She helped many Italian immigrants in Boston become citizens so they could be eligible for social security benefits and provided food and clothing to Italian people out of work
Sisters Helen S. Rush (1900-1985) and Mary Sherkanowski (1902-1987) ran a boarding house at 22 Monument Square. They wrote about their adventures in the 1952 book “Rooms to Let”.