Mary Jane Megquier
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Mary Jane Megquier
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Mary Jane Megquier (1813–1899) was an American businesswoman. She participated in the California Gold Rush. She is mentioned alongside Luzena Wilson and Mary Ellen Pleasant among the women who managed to profit among the miners of the Gold Rush by selling 'female gendered" domestic services to the miners. In 1849, she travelled with her husband from Turner, Maine to San Francisco via Panama. In San Francisco, she ran a boarding house and enjoyed the freer society. In Gold Rush California of the
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American businesswoman
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jane_Megquier
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2024-04-10T19:04:39Z
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