Anne Scheiber, a woman from Brooklyn, New York, was born in 1893. She went on to become a finance legend.

Scheiber overcame many obstacles during her 23-year career with the Internal Revenue Service. When she retired at 51 in 1944, she had just $5,000 to her name.

She taught herself everything she could about the stock market and investing. By the end of her life, she had turned $5,000 into $22 million, becoming a self-made millionaire.

Who was Anne Scheiber?

Scheiber was born and raised in Brooklyn, according to The New York Times. Her father died when she was young, and her mother worked in real estate to support the family. Scheiber was well educated, attending secretarial school before studying bookkeeping and law.

She spent most of her career as an estate auditor with the IRS. Never married, Scheiber supported herself on a $4,000 salary, yet she never received a single promotion during her entire career.

“She was always on top of production,” Ben Clark, her lawyer, told NYT. in........

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