Evelyn Brodstone Vestey

(1875-1941) lived in Superior, Nuckolls County. Business executive, was manager of American branch of Union Cold Storage Company, the largest meat and refrigeration firm in Great Britain, then was traveling auditor for the entire firm by conducting business in Africa, Australia, China, Russia, and South America, became highest salaried woman executive in the world in the 1920s, married Lord William Vestey of Kingswood, London, founder of the company. Consult New York Times obituary, May 24, 1941, p. 15 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine, August 4, 1946, pp. C-3, C-18 and Elizabeth J. Tremain, Evelene: The Troubleshooter Was a Lady (Foundation Books, 1985) and American National Biography, Sup 1 (2002) 661-663.

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