Isabel Barrows
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Isabel C. Barrows was the first woman employed by the United States State Department. She worked as a stenographer for William H. Seward in 1868 while her husband, Samuel June Barrows, was ill.[1] She later became the first woman to work for Congress as a stenographer.[2] Barrows was also one of the first women to attend the University of Vienna to study ophthalmology, and the first woman to have a private practice in medicine in Washington, D.C.. Isabel Barrows died at the age of 68 in 1913.
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- ^ Peter Balakian. The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response. “By virtue of her talent at the new "science" of stenography, she was called on in 1868 to fill in for her ill husband, June, then secretary to William Seward, President Andrew Johnson's Secretary of State...”
- ^ Bryan Pepper; Misty Wetmore. Gender Images of Congressional Life from Behind the Typewriter. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
