Mary Thompson (businesswoman)
Mary Thompson (died 1893) was one of the richest early African Americans in Seattle, Washington.
She owned the Minnehaha Saloon, which had a brothel upstairs. At the time of her death she owned real estate in Seattle and Butte, Montana. She also had a horse and carriage, an extensive jewellery collection, and $20,000 in cash. By the standards of the time, this made her quite wealthy.[1]
References[]
- ^ Taylor, Quintard (1994). The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District, from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press. pp. 30–31. ISBN 978-0-295-97345-6.
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- 1893 deaths
- African-American businesspeople
- American brothel owners and madams
- History of Seattle
- Businesspeople from Seattle
- 19th-century American businesspeople
- 19th-century American businesswomen
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