According to this article, there were very few women! It started with a spiritualist!
"... Victoria Woodhull worked as a spiritualist in the 1860s. When Vanderbilt hired her to communicate with his deceased wife, she saw an opportunity.
“She would rub shoulders with a lot of very rich men, a lot of investors, and they would be talking about their stock tips all the time,” ... “So Woodhull starts to tell Cornelius Vanderbilt, hey, you know, your wife is giving me some really hot stock tips from beyond the grave.”
Vanderbilt used the tips. He gave Woodhull and her sister about $700,000 (roughly $15 million today). In 1870, they opened Woodhull Claflin and Company, the first female-operated financial firm on Wall Street. ..."
Victoria Woodhull
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