Up until 1974, many women needed to have a male co-signer to open a bank account or acquire a line of credit. So, eight women came together to change that by opening their own U.S. Women's Bank!
Carol Green, Judi Wagner, LaRae Orullian, Gail Schoettler, Wendy Davis, Joy Burns, Beverly Martinez, and Edna Mosely founded the bank's board by each pitching in $1,000.
On July 14, 1978, people stood in line on 17th Street in downtown Denver to deposit their checks. The bank took in $1 million dollars that day.
The bank also offered classes and got involved with the community. They financed rejected projects including the Tattered Cover Book Store and Wynkoop Brewing Company.
The Women's Bank continued until 1994 when it was sold to the Colorado Business Bank. Many of the founding women continued on with successful careers!
Image: View of the Women's Bank building at 821 17th (Seventeenth) Street in downtown Denver, Colorado; the brick structure has stone trim, arched windows and doors. Denver Public Library Special Collections, Z-10455. Whitacre, Roger.
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𝙅𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙢𝙖 𝙍𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 '𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙄𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙'
𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲'𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 '𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜' 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭.
Jemima Richardson was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk in 1864. She was the third illegitimate child of Hephzibar Richardson, who was from a large family in the local fishing community called North End.
In 1871 the family are living in Dog yard, Pilot Street, her mother is working as a fish dealer. In 1881 she's living with her grandmother also named Jemima in North Street. She is now aged 17 and working as a cocoa mat maker.
On the 4th of February 1883 she married William Peryer in Christ Church, Marylebone, London. William was a local porter who was born in Bethnal Green in the Capital. Jemima names her grandfather as her father on the marriage certificate, possibly to hide the fact she was born illegitimate.
In 1884 they had their first child, Florence Hephzibar. Unfortunately she died aged 15 months in April 1885. At the inquest it says her daughter was feeling unwell and became worse and restless. She bought some "Syrup of foxes lung" from Mr Ridley's chemist. The child had a cough. The next day she went back to the chemist with the child, she said her child seemed worse. He asked to see the child and she asked if she should see a dr. Mr Ridley replied "No, do not run up the expense". He then instructed her to put linseed poultices on the childs back and chest. The child died the same day. After the post mortem it was said the child had congestion on the left lung and both kidneys and the guns were greatly swollen by teething. These were sufficient to cause death.
In 1891 the family are living in Stanley Street, King's Lynn. William is working as a ironmongers porter. They have had two children, Violet and William. In 1901 they are back living in London at Irongate Wharf Road, Paddington and they have had one more child Samuel Richardson Peryer. In 1911 they are living in Westbourne Terrace, Hyde Park, where William is working as an attentant clerk to a building's society. Jemima is working as a caretaker.
On the 26th of April 1912 she travelled to Canada with her husband William on the steamship 'Victoria' and arrived in there on the 6th of May.
On the 28th of May 1914 Jemima boarded a return trip to England on the 'Empress of Ireland' which departed Quebec City for Liverpool at 16:30 local time.The ship sank near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River in Canada following a collision in thick fog with the Norwegian collier Storstad in the early hours of 29 May 1914. Of the 1,477 people on board, 1,012 died, making it the worst peacetime marine disaster in Canadian history. There were only 465 survivors: four of whom were children (the other 134 children were lost), forty-one of whom were women (the other 269 women were lost) and 172 men (the other 437 men were lost). The fact that most passengers were asleep at the time of the sinking (most not even awakened by the collision) also contributed to the loss of life when they were drowned in their cabins, most of them from the starboard side where the collision happened. Unfortunately Jemima was of those who lost her life.
Todays post was written by Simon Howard
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