Woodhull, Claflin & Co. opens, making Tennessee Claflin and her sister the first women to own a Wall Street brokerage.
February 14, 1870, marked a monumental day when Tennessee Claflin and her sister Victoria Woodhull opened Woodhull, Claflin & Company. With their elegantly furnished office, they became the first women to ever run a brokerage firm on Wall Street. At a time when women had no legal rights to manage finances, this achievement was a prodigious defiance of societal norms, and it underscored their intelligence and determination to navigate and succeed in a male-dominated world.