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Marie Owens (December 21, 1853 – June 1927; born Marie Connolly [1] aka Marie Connolly Owens) is believed to have been the first female police officer in the U.S. and the first female police officer in the Chicago Police Department, in 1891, retiring in 1923. Holding the rank of Sergeant, Owens enforced child labor and welfare laws.
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Marie Luhring was the first woman in America to become an automotive engineer. [73] 1921 Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (for her novel The Age of Innocence). [74] Margaret Gorman was the first winner of Miss America beauty pageant. [75] [76]
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English: Florence Owens Thompson and her children in their tent at a pea-pickers camp in Nipomo, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, image in Oakland Museum Collection Photograph by Dorothea Lange, image in Oakland Museum Collection
Frances Marion (born Marion Benson Owens; November 18, 1888 [1] – May 12, 1973) was an American screenwriter, director, journalist and author often cited as one of the most renowned female screenwriters of the 20th century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos.