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Levancia Holcomb Plumb

Levancia Holcomb Plumb (1841–1923) was an American business woman, financier, and temperance reformer. She was the president and chief stockholder of the Union National Bank of Streator, Illinois. At the time, with one exception, she was the only woman head of a bank in the U.S.

Early life and education
Levancia Holcomb was born on June 23, 1841, in Sand Lake, New York. who moved from New York to Ohio, and then came to Illinois when Levancia was 12 years old. She graduated from Oberlin College with the class of 1861, and secured a master's degree four years later. While a student there, she formed the acquaintance of Samuel Plumb, a banker in Oberlin, Ohio. ==Career==
Career
In 1868, she married Samuel Plumb, and went with him to Streator, Illinois, in 1870. Their children were: May, Jessie, Samuel, and Bertha. She was one of the charter members and originators of the National Temperance Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Since 1890, while retaining her business interests in Streator, she made her home in Wheaton, Illinois, in order to superintend the education of her four children, who were attending school there. ==Death and legacy==
Death and legacy
She was a member of the Presbyterian church of Streator. at the age of 81. The Levancia H. Plumb Scholarship fund was maintained by Fisk University. ==References==
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