after a 21 6 % increase in convenience store industry card fees in 2010 they jumped 23 3 % in 2011 to a record $ 11 billion and hit $ 11 2 billion in 2012 total credit and debit card fees surpassed overall c store industry profits for the sixth consecutive year
The first known black female postmaster was Minnie Cox, appointed postmaster of Indianola (pop. 10,863) in 1891 by President Benjamin Harrison.
Abigail Adams, 1744-1818. John Adamsâ wife urged her husband to âremember the ladiesâ when he was writing the nationâs Declaration of Independence in 1776. She also was the first woman to be both a presidentâs wife and the mother of a president, and the first to live in the White House. Martha Jefferson, 1748-1782. No known portrait exists of Thomas Jeffersonâs wife, who died 18 years before her husband was elected president.