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Bessie Dwyer

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Bessie A. Dwyer was the first woman to be appointed to the staff of the United States Library of Congress in 1893.^[1] Bessie, a Texan, was supported by congressmen Roger Quarles Mills and James Slayden, who sent letters to the librarian John Russell Young requesting her promotion and transfer.^[2] Dwyer was making $900 annually by 1897, which was a lower pay for the staff at the Library of Congress. Her job title was simply "assistant".^[3]

Dwyer worked in the Copyright Office, though in 1898 she wrote to John Young, reminding him of her trailblazing as the first prominent woman employee there, and requesting a transfer.^[4] Young asked David Hutcheson, the library superintendent, to transfer her to the Reading Room. Though Hutcheson claimed she was not strong enough to work there, Young transferred her, likely due to political pressure.^[5]^[3]

In 1903, Dwyer resigned from the Library of Congress and moved to the Philippines for a new library position.^[6] Her sister, Marie U. Nordstrom, took her place at the Library of Congress until the mid-1920s.^[3]

References

1. ^U.S. Civil Service Commission, Women in the Federal Service (Washington, D.C.: Civil Service Commission, 1938), 3–6, 9.
2. ^R. Q. Mills to John Russell Young, 10 September 1897; James Slayden to Young, 13 October 1898, John Russell Young Papers, Library of Congress Archives, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
3. ^¹²{{Cite book|url=|title=Women in Print : Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries|last=Danky|first=James Philip|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|year=2006|isbn=|location=|pages=}}
4. ^Bessie A. Dwyer to John Russell Young, 10 June 1898; David Hutcheson to Young, 20 September 1898, Young Papers, LCA.
5. ^John Russell Young to Hon. C. W. Fairbanks, 17 Sept. 1898, Librarian’s Letterbooks, vol. 27, p. 444–46, LCA.
6. ^Chief Clerk’s Letterbook, 9 November 1898, p. 1, LCA

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