Business expands to include a school, a bakery, theater, barbershop and manufacturing plant.
Maggie Walker is the first African-American woman to establish and manage a bank. Marie Curie is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery of radioactivity. The Institute is designed to see how women can combine a career, marriage and motherhood in the best way possible. Nellie Taylor Ross is elected first woman governor in U.S. for the state of Wyoming. Ruth Nichols is the first U.S. woman hired as a pilot for commercial passenger flight.