Mary Elitch Long

American businesswoman Date Of Birth : 1850-05-01T00:00:00Z Date Of Death : 1936-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mary Elitch Long (born Mary Elizabeth Hauck; May 10, 1856 – July 16, 1936) was one of the original owners of Elitch Gardens in Denver, Colorado. She was the first woman to own and manage a zoo—the first zoo between Chicago and the west coast—and one of the first women to own and manage a theater (the first Summer stock theatre in the country.) She was an author of two children’s books and was inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame in 1996.

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