Collection Relating to the Financial Empire of a Woman & her Daughter

by Financial Estates, Women, Money, Financial Autonomy

$3,250 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

Colorado; Massachusetts: 1890-1942. Hailing from an immigrant family that rose to prominence in the West, Mary Tritch Rogers and her daughter Georgette Houston were often overlooked in their own time in favor of the family patriarchs. Mary's father George Tritch 1829-1899 was, after all, a German immigrant whose evolution from downtrodden pioneer to millionaire rail road and real estate magnate was documented in Sketches of Colorado 1911 and celebrated in

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