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Zella McBerty
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Zella McBerty, from a 1923 newspaper
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Zella Helwick
1879 Mineral Ridge, Ohio, US
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Zella McBerty (née Helwick; 1879–1937), was an American businesswoman and engineer.
Biography
Born Zella Helwick in 1879 to a couple from Mineral Ridge, Ohio who died shortly after her birth, she later moved to Warren, Ohio where she married Fred McBerty. They met while working for Packard Electric. Together they bought 'The Federal Machine and Welder Company'. McBerty held the position of chief financial officer of the company and represented it internationally at conferences. She was the first woman to attend the International Association of Electric Welders conference, which she did when it was held in London 1924. McBerty was the president of the local Business and Professional Women's Club and an international member of the Women's Engineering Society. McBerty was also one of very few women to be members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. She died of a heart attack in 1937.
