Evalyn Smith Nesbitt Tome France (1855 – April 22, 1927) was the first woman president of a national bank.
Evalyn Smith Nesbitt was born in 1855 in Port Deposit, Maryland, to Henry C. Nesbitt, a merchant who owned a general store in Port Deposit and branch stores in Harford County, Maryland.
[1][2][3][4] In 1873, she received a degree in English literature from Wesleyan Female College in Wilmington, Delaware.
[4] She married Dr. Joseph I. France, a teacher at the Tome School, in June 24, 1903.
[7] She died on April 22, 1927, from complications from an operation for a goiter at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.