Business Archives - Page 6 of 34

Abby Fisher

Formerly enslaved plantation cook who built a business as an upscale caterer and cookbook author

Christina McDonald Williams

American businesswoman and translator

Marya D Moses

Pioneering female commercial fisherwoman working from the Tulalip Indian Reservation in Snohomish County

Dr Marjorie Apthorpe

Geologist who worked for over forty years as a paleontologist in the petroleum industry.

A founding member of Australian Women in Agriculture in 1993, she is recognized nationally and internationally for her work in Change Management, Leadership Training and Rural Development and was the 2010 Victorian Rural Women’s Award winner

Ella Ryan

One of the earliest African American business owners in Tacoma, Washington; owner and editor of The Forum, a weekly newspaper.

Zoë Dusanne

Seattle’s first professional modern-art dealer, who introduced modern art to many residents of the Puget Sound region, and helped to catalyze the rise and international fame of the Northwest School of artists.

Mary Ann Conklin

Mary Ann Conklin ran Seattle’s first hotel, the Felker House

L Jane Hastings

Architects around the world, and particularly women architects in Seattle and Washington, have long looked to L. Jane Hastings as an exemplar and professional leader, and often the first to achieve key professional aspirations.