| 3. | Margaret D. McGary was born in 1866 in Scotland; died on 10 Oct 1940 in Brooklyn, N.Y.. Other Events and Attributes:
- Evidence 1: Scots Origins List Of Christenings Page(1), (2) And (3)
- Evidence 2: Newspaper Article On Peroxide Hair Bleach
Notes:
Had two businesses
* A Livery stable and provide horses for people
* Developing a peroxide for women's hair
Scots Origins has a number of Margaret McGary or Margaret McGarry's listed. Further investigation is required.
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DON'T BLEACH ADVISES THIS WOMAN PEROXIDE MAKER
Mrs Margaret D. Madison, Peroxide Maker, who says that women should not bleach but she's formed a company to compete with men in its manufacture
ring bleached blondes, Mrs Margaret D. Madison, a handsome Brooklyn woman of No. 637 Pacific street, has formed a corporation to manufacture by the tankful peroxide of hydrogen, the very commondity of which tow haired chorus girls are made.
Mrs Madison is the only woman in the United States known to be engaged in the manufacture of the popular chemical. There are in fact less than a dozen concerns that put peroxide on the market and most of these have been in the business for many years.
Mrs. Madison discovered the formula, from which she makes her preparation, just at the time she was about to give up the quest of the secret and when she announced that she was going to manufacture peroxide her friends tried to disuade her, saying that she could not compete with the old manufacturers.
She is a most remarkable business woman however, and so successful has she beenthat she now has filed articles of incorporation making her daughter, Margaret T Madison, and one of the employees of her laboratory, William H Hazen, stockholders.
"I am not making peroxide because I like to see women bleach" she says "in fact, I dislike to see nature tampered with in many ways. Personally I feel that a woman looks her best as nature designed her, but since many women insist on trying to make themselves more attractive I don't see why I should consider that phase of the question in my business".
"The medicinal kind of peroxide that women take home and use indiscriminately, sometimes to the everlasting injury of their hair, is not the manufacture of my laboratory by any means, although I must manufacture that too, to keep up with my competitors. Chiefly I shall go in for commercial peroxide such as is used in bleaching ivory, feathers and manufactured hair."
"Medicinal peroxide, if properly used, is not at all injurious to the hair. The great trouble is that the women do not know how to apply the chemical. They use too much and they resort to it too frequently. I would not hesitate myself to use it if I wanted to be blond.".
Mrs. Madison who looks quite as young as her daughter, whom she has made a partner in the corporation, is a thoroughly up-to-date business womean. There is no feature of the business that she is afraid to tackle from the making of peroxide to the selling of it. She has not much faith in the average man in business and consequently she has taken hold of the outside work altogether.
Practically every firm of the country that uses peroxide has been visited by the female chemical drummer, and the time she has been at it has seen her laboratory grow from a shed in her back yard ................ (end of article missing).
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Had two businesses
* A Livery stable and provide horses for people
* Developing a peroxide for women's hair
Scots Origins has a number of Margaret McGary or Margaret McGarry's listed. Further investigation is required.
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DON'T BLEACH ADVISES THIS WOMAN PEROXIDE MAKER
Mrs Margaret D. Madison, Peroxide Maker, who says that women should not bleach but she's formed a company to compete with men in its manufacture
ring bleached blondes, Mrs Margaret D. Madison, a handsome Brooklyn woman of No. 637 Pacific street, has formed a corporation to manufacture by the tankful peroxide of hydrogen, the very commondity of which tow haired chorus girls are made.
Mrs Madison is the only woman in the United States known to be engaged in the manufacture of the popular chemical. There are in fact less than a dozen concerns that put peroxide on the market and most of these have been in the business for many years.
Mrs. Madison discovered the formula, from which she makes her preparation, just at the time she was about to give up the quest of the secret and when she announced that she was going to manufacture peroxide her friends tried to disuade her, saying that she could not compete with the old manufacturers.
She is a most remarkable business woman however, and so successful has she beenthat she now has filed articles of incorporation making her daughter, Margaret T Madison, and one of the employees of her laboratory, William H Hazen, stockholders.
"I am not making peroxide because I like to see women bleach" she says "in fact, I dislike to see nature tampered with in many ways. Personally I feel that a woman looks her best as nature designed her, but since many women insist on trying to make themselves more attractive I don't see why I should consider that phase of the question in my business".
"The medicinal kind of peroxide that women take home and use indiscriminately, sometimes to the everlasting injury of their hair, is not the manufacture of my laboratory by any means, although I must manufacture that too, to keep up with my competitors. Chiefly I shall go in for commercial peroxide such as is used in bleaching ivory, feathers and manufactured hair."
"Medicinal peroxide, if properly used, is not at all injurious to the hair. The great trouble is that the women do not know how to apply the chemical. They use too much and they resort to it too frequently. I would not hesitate myself to use it if I wanted to be blond.".
Mrs. Madison who looks quite as young as her daughter, whom she has made a partner in the corporation, is a thoroughly up-to-date business womean. There is no feature of the business that she is afraid to tackle from the making of peroxide to the selling of it. She has not much faith in the average man in business and consequently she has taken hold of the outside work altogether.
Practically every firm of the country that uses peroxide has been visited by the female chemical drummer, and the time she has been at it has seen her laboratory grow from a shed in her back yard ................ (end of article missing).
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1877 - 1958 (81 years)
