Henrietta Larson

Henrietta Melia Larson (24 September 1894 – 25 August 1983) was an American business historian.

Larson received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and The Wheat Market and the Farmer in Minnesota, 1858–1900 in 1926.

Together with N. S. B. Gras, she wrote Jay Cooke, Private Banker in 1936 and she was the editor of the Bulletin of the Business Historical Society in 1938.

They compiled the Casebook in American Business History in 1939 and Larson was promoted to assistant professor that same year.

Six years later, she wrote the Guide to Business History with Kenneth Wiggins Porter and she became associate editor of the Harvard Studies in Business History and then editor two years later.