1. Lydia Pinkham urged women to write to her personally, and she would maintain the correspondence in order to expose the customer to more persuasive claims for the remedy.
14 Facts About Lydia Pinkham
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Lydia Pinkham was born in the manufacturing city of Lynn, Massachusetts, the tenth of the twelve children of William and Rebecca Estes.
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William Estes was originally a shoemaker but by the time Lydia Pinkham was born in 1819, he had become wealthy through dealing in real estate and had risen to the status of "gentleman farmer".
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Lydia Pinkham was educated at Lynn Academy and worked as a schoolteacher before her marriage in September 1843.
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Lydia Pinkham joined the Lynn Female Anti-slavery Society when she was sixteen.
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Lydia Pinkham would try various businesses without much success, including real estate.
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Lydia Pinkham lost their second child to gastroenteritis, but gave birth to their second surviving child, Daniel Rogers Pinkham, in 1848.
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Isaac Lydia Pinkham was ruined financially in the economic depression of the early 1870s.
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The fortunes of the Lydia Pinkham family had long been patchy, but they now entered on hard times.
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Lydia Pinkham initially made the remedy on her stove before its success enabled production to be transferred to a factory.
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Lydia Pinkham answered letters from customers and probably wrote most of the advertising copy.
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Lydia Pinkham's skill was in marketing her product directly to women, and her company continued her shrewd marketing tactics after her death.
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The Lydia Pinkham House, located near her factory on Western Ave in Lynn, Massachusetts, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places September 25,2012.
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The clinic has been controlled since 1990 by Stephen Nathan Doty, a fourth-generation descendant of Lydia Pinkham, who uses the memorial building as his personal residence.