Levancia Holcomb Plumb | |
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.jpg) Portrait photo from A Woman of the Century | |
| Born | Levancia Holcomb June 23, 1841 Sand Lake, New York, U.S. |
| Died | April 10, 1923 (aged 81) Streator, Illinois, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College |
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| Organization | Woman's Temperance Publishing Association |
| Known for | President and chief stockholder of the Union National Bank of Streator, Illinois |
| Spouse |
Samuel Plumb
(m. 1868; died 1889) |
Levancia Holcomb Plumb (1841–1923) was an American business woman, financier, and temperance reformer.[1] She was the president and chief stockholder of the Union National Bank of Streator, Illinois. At the time, with one exception, she was the only woman head of a bank in the U.S.[2]
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "PLUMB, Mrs. L. H.". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. p. 576.
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