the first married woman in Wisconsin to own property in her own name; came to Wisconsin in 1838 from Connecticut and ran a successful inn at Red Cedar Lake, petitioned the legislature in 1855 to have the title for 160 acres she purchased put in her name

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[Source: Brown, Victoria. Uncommon Lives of Common Women: The Missing Half of Wisconsin History. Madison: Wisconsin Feminists Project Fund, 1975.]