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Ruby Foo
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.
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.
Alana Johnson
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