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Rebecca Lukens

Rebecca Lukens
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Rebecca Lukens (1794–1854), born Rebecca Webb Pennock, was an American businesswoman. She was the owner and manager of the iron and steel mill which became the Lukens Steel Company of Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Fortune Magazine called her "America's first female CEO of an industrial company" and its board of editors named her to the National Business Hall of Fame in 1994.

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Women Who Ran Businesses in Earlier Centuries
Women Who Ran Businesses in Earlier Centuries
by curious_compiler  • 
A shop, a printing press, and an iron mill leave different kinds of records. Follow the women who ran them to see who could sign a deal, find credit, inherit a business, or build a market. The...
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