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At the age of ten, the Shadd's moved to West Chester, Pennsylvania where Mary attended a Quaker School for the next six years. This experience influence dMary later in life, whereby she returned to this location and opened a school for Black children in 1840.
Ash, who died in 2001 at the age of 83, founded the Mary Kay cosmetics company after she was passed over for a promotion in favour of a man who she herself had trained. With an investment of $5,000, she formulated a business plan, and opened her first store in September 1963.