The one that always fascinated me was Margaret Findlayson Haberkorn-Pabst a.k.a. Margaret Mather [[1859-1898). She went from peddling the Detroit Free Press on Griswold to become one of the world's finest Shakespearean actresses in the Victorian age. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...&GRid=8891014&

I'll think of more, I'm sure, but that's the first one that popped in my head.