19th century Jewish businesswomen

I received the spring issue of American Jewish Legacy and was pleased to see some interesting information on important businesswomen in our history:

--Rebecca Moses (1792-1872), a businesswoman and wife of successful Charleston planter, Isaiah Moses.

--Jenny Baruh, daughter of Jewish Gold Rush Pioneer Aaron Baruh and wife of Isadore Zellerbach (Crown Zellerbach paper company), who established a charitable foundation that has disbursed more than $50 million

--Blanche Colman, South Dakota's first female lawyer (1911), daughter of a Yiddish-speaking pioneer who came to Deadwood in 1877, where he was lay rabbi and a longtime justice of the peace

--Bella Marks, wife of Moses Garfunkel, a partner in Marks Moses of Georgetown, SC

--Nannette (Yettel) Conrad (born 1830, Bavaria), had a San Francisco millinery store, married Emanuel Blochman.

This issue also contains information on Ava F. Kahn, PhD of San Francisco, whose book Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary History 1849-1880, will be followed by a co-authored volume, Jews of the Pacific West: The Growth of a Regional Community, 1849-1990 to be published by the University of Washington Press in 2008.

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