Hattie P. Dyer

Boston Sunday Post, June 19, 1910

"Romances of Success by Women in the Business World. Miss Hattie P. Dyer Has Risen to Top as a Manufacturer"

Miss Hattie P. Dyer was born in Augusta, Maine on Feb. 2, 1852 and moved to Malden with her parents (Christopher S. and Harriet S. Dyer) in 1856. Her mother was an "old time milliner. According to the article, Hattie Dyer starting by helping her mother make bonnets adn made dresses for the poor. After 1878, she went into wholesale millinery, like her father, and became head of the business and household after her father died in 1890. in 1891, she established a business in Boston as a "manufacturing hatter."

Federal Cencus 1880, 1900; Boston Almanac and Business Dir. 1894; Malden City Directories 1906:

Harriet Priscilla Dyer

1880, 211 Pleasant St., Malden (dwelling #28); single, daughter of head of household; father, Christopher W. Dyer wholesale millinery (b. Maine 1824); mother, Harriet S. Dyer keeping house (b. Maine 1827); brother, Edwin H. Dyer book keeper for wholesale milliner (b. 1850); sister-in-law, Mary Dyer (b. NH, 1856); niece, Grace E. Dyer (b. 1878); nephew, Leon O. Dyer (b. April 12, 1880)

1894, listed in Boston City Diectory as a milliner at 7 Temple Place

1900, Fed. Census, described as a milliner at 3 Pleasant St., Malden; living with widowed mother, Harriet, at 211 Pleasant St., Malden, which they owned free of a mortage

1902, Malden City Directory, milliner at 7 Temple Place, Rm 35, Boston, boards at 523 Pleasant St.

1906 Malden City Directory, boards at 523 Pleasant St.

1910 Fed. Census, head of household, milliner and millinery store, lives with Horace Soule, 81-year-old widower at 523 Pleasant St., Malden

1920 Malden City Directory, same address as above