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Now it is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it...
Mary Ellen Pleasant
Born: 1814
Died: January 4, 1904 (aged 90)
Bio: Mary Ellen Pleasant was a 19th-century African American entrepreneur widely known as Mistress Pleasant. She identified herself as "a capitalist by profession" in the 1890 United States Census. People called her "Mammy" Pleasant but she did not approve.