Bessie Dwyer

Bessie Dwyer
Born1866 Edit this on Wikidata
Nueces County Edit this on Wikidata
Died28 March 1944 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 77–78)
Santo Tomas Internment Camp Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationJournalist, writer, librarian Edit this on Wikidata

Elizabeth A. Dwyer (1866 – March 28, 1944) was the first woman to be appointed to the staff of the United States Library of Congress in 1893.[1]

  1. ^ U.S. Civil Service Commission, Women in the Federal Service (Washington, D.C.: Civil Service Commission, 1938), 3–6, 9.