Anna Bissell took over her family’s carpet-sweeper business in 1889 after her husband’s death, becoming America’s first female CEO and leading the company for 42 years | World News
Anna Bissell took charge of the family business in 1889 and became the first female chief executive in the United States. The business had begun several years earlier, when Anna and Melville R. Bissell ran a crockery shop in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A problem with sawdust in the shop led Melville to invent an improved…