Biography of annie malone husband

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She was the first African American woman to be a millionaire. In the first three decades of the 20th century, she founded and developed a large and prominent commercial and educational enterprise centered on cosmetics for African-American women. She was the tenth of eleven children born to Robert Turnbo and Isabelle Cook. Her parents died when she was young, and she moved to Peoria to be with an older sister Mrs.

Laura Roberts. In Annie and her sister Laura were living in Metropolis with their older brother John who worked making bricks. They lived next door to their sister Love. By the early s, she was living in Lovejoy Brooklyn , Illinois across the river from St. Louis where her early interest in hair textures led her to develop a product that could straighten curly African-American hair without damaging either the hair or the scalp.

She then developed a line of beauty products for African-American women and went on to receive the first patent for the hot comb. In , Malone moved to St. Louis where she and her associates sold her products door-to-door. Annie Turnbo married Nelson Pope on June 25, In April , thirty-year-old Annie was living in St. Louis, Missouri.