In 1858, Charles Frederick Worth founded the House of Worth in Paris, France. Soon, the gowns and dresses he created were the epitome of fashion. To be compared in any way to the famous House of Worth would be the highest compliment paid to a seamstress, but that is exactly what happened to Jackson’s Mary D’Ambrogio. Kate Markam Power wrote an article in an early edition of the Jackson Clarion-Ledger and entitled it, “Biography of Jackson’s Pioneer Business Woman Resembles Fiction Character.” In the article she described Mary simply, “What Worth meant to Paris in his day Mrs. D’Ambrogio meant to Jackson in hers.”