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The Pepperidge Farm brand was bought by Campbell for $28.2 million worth of Campbell's stock in 1961. She then gained the title of first woman on the board of Campbell. [8] [10] Rudkin is still considered to be a leader in many industries and her legacy lives on through Pepperidge Farm.
1912 photograph of Adda Howie playing the mandolin to one of her cows. Adda F. Howie (1852–1936) was an American agriculturalist known for her achievements in the field of dairy farming, including her innovative methods of caring for livestock, which emphasized cleanliness and nurturing.
David Dickson. Amanda America Dickson was born into slavery in Hancock County, Georgia.Her enslaved mother, Julia Frances Lewis Dickson, was just 13 when she was born. Her father, David Dickson (1809–1885), [2] was a white planter and slave plantation owner who owned her mother; he was one of the eight wealthiest plantation owners in the county.
Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman and first Black person in general to receive a pilot's license. Because of gender and racial discrimination, she learned French and went to ...
The reapers sold best in the Midwest--first in Wisconsin and Illinois. As cheaper lands opened to the west, farmers sold out and moved to large farms in the Dakotas, Kansas and Nebraska, where labor was expensive and reapers were needed to handle a large crop in a few days. [38] Hundreds of different local companies made reapers for the local ...
Women may not always get the historical credit their male counterparts do, but as these women show, they were always there doing the work. With their fierce determination and refusal to back down, all of these 12 women were not just ahead of their own times, but responsible for shaping ours.
In 1813, businessman Francis Cabot Lowell formed a company, the Boston Manufacturing Company, and built a textile mill next to the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts.. Unlike the earlier Rhode Island System, where only carding and spinning were done in a factory while the weaving was often put out to neighboring farms to be done by hand, the Waltham mill was the first integrated mill in ...
Does America need another women's suffrage movement?