Hazel Hempel Abel
Hazel Hempel Abel, an accomplished businesswoman and Republican Party official, was elected to the U.S. Senate from Nebraska to fill a two-month term created by a technicality in the state’s election law.
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Ethel Rowland Flynn
Flynn was a talented milliner who created stylish hats for East Boston’s wealthiest ladies in the 1920s.
Susannah Sanders Cooper
Susannah Sanders Cooper tested restraints on married women‘s property ownership in eighteenth-century Virginia.
Lily Ganger
American businesswoman
Betsy Havens
American artist
Dorimène Desjardins
Dorimène Desjardins (1858–1932) played a key role in the functioning of the caisses populaires (credit unions) established by her husband
Denise Robinson
Chairman, New South Wales Regional Committee of the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine
Georgina Whetsel
Widowed after 12 years of marriage, Georgina Mingo Whetsel (1846–1919) took over the operation of her late husband’s ice business in Saint John and built it into a major commercial enterprise.
Louisa Rogers
1900s Canadian newspaper proprietor
Marie-Anne Fornel
1700s Canadian merchant and entrepreneur