Mary Smith Hayward | |
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| Born | Mary Eliza Smith July 9, 1842 |
| Died | February 7, 1938 (aged 95) Chadron, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Other names | Sometimes, Mary E. Smith-Hayward |
| Occupation | Businesswoman |
| Years active | 50 |
| Spouse |
William Francis Hayward
(m. 1888; died 1910) |
Mary Eliza Hayward (née Smith; July 9, 1842 – February 7, 1938) was an American businesswoman,[1] the first businesswoman of Chadron, Nebraska.[2] For 50 years,[3] as proprietor of the M. E. Smith & Co. Twin Stores of Chadron, she was a dry goods merchant, one of the very successful businesswomen of the state.[4] For years, she was one of the most prominent woman suffragists of Nebraska, was a State member of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association,[5] was honorary president of the Nebraska Equal Suffrage Association, and gave both time and money in generous amounts for the cause of woman suffrage in Nebraska.[4][6]
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "HAYWARD, Mrs. Mary E. Smith". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. p. 367.
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- ^ "GRAND OLD WOMAN". The Lincoln Star. February 20, 1938. p. 26. Retrieved October 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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Shumway-1921was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "HAYWARD, Mary E. Smith". Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. American Commonwealth Company. 1914. p. 375. Retrieved October 12, 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
