About Christine Moore Howell
Lived 1899 – 1972 (aged 73). Christine Moore Howell was an American businessperson.
Christine Moore Howell (March 19, 1899 – December 13, 1972) was a hair care product businesswoman who founded Christine Cosmetics where she formulated her own line of cosmetics and hair care products. She was the head of the New Jersey Board of Beauty Culture Control. She was the first African-American to graduate from Princeton High School.
She opened a beauty shop in one of the buildings that William now owned. She studied chemistry in Paris and when she returned she formulated a line of cosmetics.
In 1924 she married Dr. Edward Gaylord Howell of Darien, Connecticut.
She died on December 13, 1972, and was interred in Princeton Cemetery.
Publications Beauty Culture and Care of the Hair (1936)
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American businessperson
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Christine Moore Howell was born on 19 March 1899 in Princeton.
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Christine Moore Howell died on 13 December 1972 in New Brunswick.
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