most people here tend to think that muriel seibert was the first to take up the path on wall street when she purchased a seat on the new york stock exchange in 1967. but she was hardly the first to make her mark in american finance. two other names that most frequently surface are those of victoria woodhall and heddy green. woodall and her sister had made the acquaintance of vanderbilt. they wanted to get rich and opened the first female owned brokerage in 1870. the firm lasted only a few years, and they were largely dismissed as a joke. to be sure, they were more keen on courting publicity than on analyzing earnings. but they were certainly savvy marketers and they courted publicity so well that one can liken them to many of their modern day cohorts in the brokerage industry. heddy green is usually dismissed as a miserly eccentric and certainly her fashion choice did nothing to help her shed that image. she vastly increased her fortune through shrewd investments. her unfortunate nickname overlooks her keen financial mind and her participation in key events of the times. from a broader p