Business Archives - Page 7 of 36

Florence Violet McKenzie

Australia’s first female electrical engineer, founder of a telegraphy school and initiator of the WRANS.

E Alice Taylor

Beautician and community activist, formed the Boston unit of the Housewives League with Geneva Arrington and E. Alice Taylor.

Mary Yick

Mary Yick (1933 – 2013), fondly called “The Dragon Lady”, opened the Tiki Hut in 1961. She served Cantonese and Polynesian fusion food and cocktails in Boston’s Chinatown.

Helen Young Davis

Prominent African American business leader in Boston.

Marjorie Johnson

Marjorie Johnson (1915–2011), a trailblazer in funeral services, led Boston’s J.B. Johnson Funeral Home, earning accolades for her dedication to community and faith.

Mary Soo Hoo

Boston Chinatown activist

Edith Ban

Holocaust survivor, opened Cafe Budapest in Boston in 1959 and managed it until her death in 1988

Missouri T B Hanna

The “Mother of Journalism” in Washington.

Ruby Foo moved to Boston in 1923 where she began a single-room restaurant in Boston’s Chinatown. Its popularity quickly grew, and she opened Ruby Foo’s “Den” in 1929—heralded as the first Chinese restaurant to successfully cater to non-Chinese clientele.

Elizabeth Murray

1700s Scottish-American businesswoman and philanthropist