Edna Blanchard Lewis

Edna Blanchard Lewis (c. 1876 − December 25, 1933) was an insurance broker.

She was born in Dutchess County, New York; her year of birth is given in a 1910 article as about 1876, and in her obituary as about 1882. she expanded this into a company, the Women's Insurance Department, employing only women, and by 1910 she had licenses to operate in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. That year she was described as managing "the only insurance department in the world run exclusively for women".

She was a strong believer in women's suffrage. She died in 1933 at her home in Manhattan on December 25, 1933.

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