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Isabel Barrows
(Katherine) Isabel Hayes Chapin Barrows
(April 17, 1845 – October 24, 1913) 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. She later became the first woman to work for
Congress
as a stenographer. Barrows was also one of the first women to attend the
University of Vienna
to study
ophthalmology
, the first American woman in medical practice as an ophthalmologist, and the first woman to have a private practice in medicine in
Washington, D.C.
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A sunny life : the biography of Samuel June Barrows
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Barrows
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Isabel
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Published 1913
:Little, Brown
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