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So there's a popular TIL about America's first female self-made millionaire being Madam C.J Walker, however the wikipedia article it links to says she was worth an estimated 600k. So is the wikipedia article correct or not? If correct, who was the actual first female self-made millionaire?

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So there's a popular TIL about America's first female self-made millionaire being Madam C.J Walker, however the wikipedia article it links to says she was worth an estimated 600k. So is the wikipedia article correct or not? If correct, who was the actual first female self-made millionaire?	227