LEADING BUSINESSWOMEN IN 1890


MISS A. A. HEATH

Miss Heath is a native of Plymouth and was a dealer in millinery and fancy goods in the Tufts Block. She began her business operations in 1884. She employed several competent assistants and kept on hand a good assortment of carefully selected stock of everything to be found in a first-class establishment of the kind. Her business establishment covered an area of about 400 square feet, with the articles in stock displayed to excellent advantage.

MRS. WARREN MOSES PRESSEY

Mrs. Pressey was the former Orissa Vilona Eastman, a Vermont native, who came to Plymouth with her husband in 1864, where her husband ran a restaurant for a few years. Later he became engaged in the tinware business with his father, Thomas Pressey. Mrs. Pressey conducted her millinery store in the Kidder Block for a time. She operated her popular business for over twenty years, which consisted of millinery and fancy goods, also ladies underwear. In 1882 she began her business under the name of Mrs. W.M. Pressey & Co. Since 1888 she had sole control of the business, which was located on Main Street. The store measured about 800 square feet and was fitted up for the tasteful display of her large stock of first class millinery and fancy goods. She had a large order trade for the newest styles and designs at fair and reasonable prices.