Professional Women of 1909, Part 1

The 1909 business directory for Sioux Falls, South Dakota includes several women who took on professions in order to earn an income and use acquired skills.  Since women still tend to be underrepresented in written histories, I thought I’d see what I could find out about them in the historical record.  Censuses and city directories are from searching scanned documents on Ancestry.com; other sources are given or linked to the information.  Here are the first five…