Anne Hadden

Anne Hadden
A smiling white woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat, seated on a burro, with a second burro carrying packages of books, photographed outdoors in 1916
Anne Hadden on a burro, with a second burro loaded with books, in 1916
BornAugust 16, 1874
Bandon, County Cork, Ireland
DiedAugust 30, 1963
Pacific Grove, California
OccupationLibrarian
RelativesWilliam Kingston Vickery (uncle)

Mary Anne Hadden (August 16, 1874 – August 30, 1963) was an Irish-born American librarian. As the first director of the Monterey County Free Library, hired in 1913, Hadden established 126 branches of the library system, some of them housed in schools or private homes.