Tennessee Celeste Claflin

In 1868, Tennessee Claflin moved from Ohio to New York City with her sister Victoria Woodhull. With the help of businessman Cornelius Vanderbilt, they opened a brokerage firm on Wall Street called Woodhull, Claflin and Co. in 1870—the first women ever to do so. Shortly thereafter, the “Lady Bankers” started Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly, a reform magazine that sought to secure the rights of women through open discussions on topics such as education, abortion, and “free love,” or sex outside of marriage.