Born: 1828, Ireland
Died: 1895
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
The following is republished with permission from the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail.
The short streets running between Tremont and Washington Streets— including Hamilton Place, Winter Street, and Temple Place—contained shops for women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many women were successful proprietors of dressmaking and millinery shops, including Irish-born Ellen Hartnett, who rose from being a millinery worker in 1860 to a shop owner with capital twenty-five years later.