Mary T. Wales

Mary Tiffany Wales (1874–1952) was a college-educated teacher and co-founder of Johnson & Wales Business School in Providence, Rhode Island.

Mary Tiffany Wales was born in 1874 in Wilmington, Delaware.

[2] In 1911 Mary moved to Providence to teach at the Rhode Island Commercial School (now Bryant University).

[1] In 1914, with fellow teacher Gertrude I. Johnson, she co-founded Johnson & Wales Business School in Providence, Rhode Island.

It has grown into the present-day Johnson & Wales University, with four campuses in the Eastern U.S. With Mary in poor health, the two women sold the business school in June 1947[2] and retired together in Warwick, Rhode Island.