Sterling Bicycle Co.

She claimed to be the first woman to "cycle around the world", duplicating a feat that Thomas Stevens had accomplished 10 years earlier.

Her ride came during the late 1800s "bicycle craze" and she gained widespread attention for her feat and for wearing bloomers (op cit).

In "The Works: The Industrial Architecture of the United States" (by Betsy Hunter Bradley – Oxford Press – Out of print?)

In 1898 Sterling won a Silver Medal at the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition[6] held in Omaha, Nebraska for its "chainless bicycles and safeties".

The "Hand Book of the United States Tariff 1913[11] references the Sterling Cycle Works, again of Chicago as in importer of steel tubing.