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. 1920's Ethel Puffer Howes starts a program at Smith College called the Institute for the Coordination of Women's Interests. 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.