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Owner of Rose Meta House of Beauty in Sugar Hill & A founder of NY's only black owned commercial bank, the Freedom National Bank.
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August 9, 1912, Edwards, Mississippi
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December 16, 2008 (age 96), Chicago, Illinois
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Olivia Clarke Stanford (investor/co-owner of Rose Meta House of Beauty, Inc.)
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*some sources say April 6, 1845
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